the Admin Council bought the site from the previous owner and domain transfer took place but the @!#% host retained control
I'm having the exact same problem with a band's web site i'm working on right now. they were originally hosted with Geocities and i switched them to 1and1 hosting and it's been almost 3 months since i started it. 1and1 said it would take 60 days to transfer the domain, and when the 60 days was up..nothing would work. so i had to get in touch with geocities, and they sent me to another web site where they get their domains, and then that website sent me back to geocities...and it's so confusing..how did you go about gaining control of the domain name???