A friends’ webhost mailed her:
“You’ve been hacked.
We took your site offline.
If you want it back online,

• please pay the $60 “unlock fee”

• send us this confirmation in lieu of an oath that (many things) and blah.

“

To me that sounds extremely uncommon and generally crazy.
It’s really in the TOS she signed up for. I don’t know why people still don’t know to check TOS before they sign up for something.

Anyway. my friend *does* have backups.

I don’t see reason in staying a host who has a reputation for being hacked all too often and offically practices something close to blackmail to year-long customers on first incident.

Can that company do anything against an outgoing domain transfer?

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