Help: Can I bypass a URL redirect? (2025)

Hello, friends!

I hope you can help me as I'm quite angry right now and I'd like to fight back. A quick backstory: I am part of a community of gamers that all play Star Wars: The Old Republic. We had a website that we used to communicate, coordinate, share fun stuff, and overall interact as a community. We used to have an owner who paid for our website fees and our Teamspeak 3 VOIP server. He handed over ownership to another member and then left. Now he came back and asked for ownership in return. When he was denied ownership, he proceeded to somehow sabotage our website, which brings me to my question.

Our website URL, www.jediswtor.com, now redirects to his own Website Design business page, at https://www.orionsolconsulting.com, whenever anyone tries to access our old website. I'd like to know if there's a way to bypass that redirect and access our old forums again because there is a LOT of intellectual property--over 5000 members worth--of content on that website, along with priceless information that we could all really benefit from accessing.

If it's worth noting, our website was hosted via Enjin.

Thank you in advance.

It depends on how he did it.

Who owned/had control over the actual servers? This is separate to the domain name, which it sounds like he's moved. If someone else ran the site, it's possible that the site is still sitting there, just the domain doesn't point to it. You'd probably need to ask them how to access it.

OTOH, if the servers were tied to the same GoDaddy site as the domain, or he had the logins for whatever cloud hosting was being used too, he may have turned off the servers with the domain name.

A medium-large, older site was likely hosted on a machine in someone's basement, though.

most likely just domain name change, wild guess is, it's still on enjin as normal.
and.. quick google search guess: http://jedlorder.enjin.com/

All in all though, ALL Enjin sites exist pretty much as subdomains of enjin.com, as what exact name... no clue.

Edit: That forum seems to have only 1286 members so it might not be yours.
or it's divided:
http://imperialdestinyswtor.enjin.com/

I went with cached copy of main site:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0-C6ndNg4qgJ:www.jediswtor.com/
and from there looked at things on enjin (user profiles and communities they belong to help)

Edit2: You would need to find out the Enjin logins to sort the mess out better though, I think.