>>41989789Yes and no. The domain is done and paid for but the VPS / container instance isn't free to keep running.
Granted, it's basically pennies on most hosts, you don't exactly need a beefy machine to serve 1,000 malware bots, 5 search crawlers, and like 2 actual users a month.
But it still costs something, unless her web guy did a reservation for like a whole year on the compute.