My technical person is threatening me not give my domain rights

what should i do?

[tabish]

Hi all,

One of my technical person who booked domain for my compnay is not willing to give domain rights to us. We are more than 10 years old compnay and now we are loosing our identity on internet, please advice?

Regards

[trillianjedi]

Hi tabish,

You need to seek legal advice immediately.

TJ

[The Contractor]

trillianjedi has the best advice.

I never understood why even some very large companies do not have one of their marketing or IT staff purchase the domains for them using a company credit card.

There are other forums where you see this exact type of thing going on constantly. Marketing, Hosting, or Development company is no longer used and they give people a hard time to get to their domain. People need to wake-up and not buy there domains through a company such as this. If it's too tough for any of the staff to go purchase a domain at some of the large registrars...you need to take a hard look at your staff.

[edited by: The_Contractor at 10:38 am (utc) on April 18, 2007]

[tabish]

It was one of my VERY trusted worker (manager) in my firm. We ahve family relations but now things are not working in right manner. He used to handle all those web based things for my compnay and now when I asked him to tranfer the main domain in my name.. he denied.. I dont know what sre the Laws for domain name in India.. I am cunsulting with my Lawer but he doesnt know much about Internet Law..

Any more suggesstions? should i contact ICANN?

[The Contractor]

No matter who you contact you will have to prove you are the rightful owner and purchaser of the domain and this person was acting on your behalf when purchasing the domain - can you prove that?

[trillianjedi]

I am cunsulting with my Lawer but he doesnt know much about Internet Law..

You need to contact a lawyer who does. The ISIL I'm sure could send you in the right direction:-

[isil-aca.org...]

[Corey Bryant]

Is the name also in your company name? A lot of times, you can fax a letter on letter to the registrar stating the problem as well. We had to do this a few years ago and the domain name was in our name within two weeks

-Corey

[rocker]

trillianjedi is right you need a lawyer who is experienced in domain disputes. The 2 that come to mind are John Berryhill and Ari Goldberger.

[leadegroot]

Firstly, do a whois on your domain name and see who the names on there are.
This may show you whether or not it was purchased in your name or not.
It will show you the registrar.
Go to the registrar's website and see if you can find the instructions for what to do if you have lost access to your domain name (eg the password is lost or you no longer have access to the email account)
If the instructions aren't there then use the contact form to write and ask them.
Don't give them a song and dance, just tell them that a former employee registered the domain names, you need access to them - what details do they need to be sent to get control of the domain names?
They will probably tell you that you need to write to them on company letterhead and send a photocopy of drivers licence, passport or similar.
Follow these instructions and you should be able to get control of your domain name.

If your relative has said 'no' then don't bother him any further yourself, particularly while contacting the registrar, as above. Keep him in the dark.

If this process doesn't work, you may need to consult a lawyer, but I can understand that is difficult. Your lawyer may not know much about the internet, but hopefuly he can (and should) refer you to someone who does.

Good luck!

[caran1]

Contact the registrar, they may be able to help.

[eddy22]

Thats correct, Contact the registrar, they should help you.