Did anyone else receive this email from Weebly and, if so, what are your thoughts?

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This is an official notification from the Weebly account team in regards to the account under this email address.

You currently have a free Weebly website published on a custom domain (or vanity URL) and are not subscribed to a paid Weebly hosting plan. As of March 14, 2023, sites connected to custom domains are required to have a Weebly hosting service plan to remain published.

What does this mean for you?

To keep your site published on a custom domain, you will need to purchase a paid Weebly service plan subscription. If you take no action and choose to remain on a free Weebly plan, your account information and all associated site content will remain intact and accessible to you within Editor, but your site will be unpublished on March 14, 2023 and will no longer be visible to visitors or connected to your custom domain. You will need to republish your site on a free Weebly subdomain to make it publicly visible again (ex: my-name.weebly.com).

Here’s what you can do next:

To keep your site published on a custom domain, select and purchase a paid Weebly service plan >

To keep your site published and remain on the free plan, republish your site to a Weebly subdomain > (click “edit” in your domain settings)

Note: If you don’t take any action by March 14, 2023 your site will be unpublished from your custom domain and will no longer be publicly visible online.

Thank you for your support and understanding. If you have any questions, please contact us by visiting our Help Center.

The Weebly Team

I'm tasked with managing PTO website. The domain name is not in the schools direct control. The administrative contact is long gone, and I am unable to locate a way to contact them. The contact address and phone number for the domain is that of the school, I just have no way to contact the person who managed the site, and no access to email accounts accociated with the site. I'm hoping there is way to recover ownership of this domain.

Weebly is out for hosting this website. straight off the bat me or my lawyer cannot get through to phone support without a PIN. Emails have gone unanswered as well. Additionally, I need to add some functionality that is outside of a site builder.

Any suggestions to recover this domain?