How to Legally Shut Down a Website
- Cancel your account with your Web hosting service. ...
- Relinquish your domain name. ...
- Wait 48 hours and then navigate to your old website URL using your Web browser. ...
- Verify that the website is illegal and not merely offensive. ...
- Write down the URL of the website.
How long does it take to shut down a website?
It takes several weeks for your URLs to fall out of the search engine results, and possibly longer if you have a lot of backlinks. There are right and wrong ways to close up your website, especially if you think you may need your followers again one day.