work has been stolen

[Gasolene]

I was doing work for a client over the web. I have no idea who he is, he contacted me via email.

We had agreed on a project he wanted, after it was built he had other enhancements that he wanted done, I informed him they would be extra as they were not originally discussed.

After this he stopped communicating with me, however my work is on his website and he has not paid.

I did a whois and he has some sort of whois protection service. I have no idea what country he's from or anything.

has anyone had similar situation, and are there any steps I can do to resolve this?

thnx,

[edited by: engine at 7:02 pm (utc) on Mar. 8, 2005]
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[incrediBILL]

Hopefully you got a deposit up front.

To determine the country and maybe even the web host, ping his domain name then feed the IP address into ARIN.NET.

[Gasolene]

I'm not too concerned about the amount, it is a small amount. I just want my work taken off his site if he's not going to pay.

using his ip...
It appears that he uses voxel.net based in newyork.

I'll be contacting them to see if theres anything they can do.

[Gasolene]

on his server, the domain redirects to an ip (I assume he runs his own server)

I did an ARIN whois on the IP, it says...

City: Mumbai
StateProv: Maharashtra

is there anything I can do from canada, if he's in a 3rd world country?

[engine]

Let's not go into specifics, thanks.

[Lorel]

is there anything I can do from canada, if he's in a 3rd world country?

Gather all the data (domain data of offending site, copy of your text, url of offending site, and any communication you had between this person and yourself) and send a copy to the hosting company's email contact that you get off the Whois data--even if the culprit has his own server/host.

I did this to a site in India that had accepted copyrighted text and they took the page down.

If that doesn't work threaten to write all the advertisers and follow any contacts/links on the site to let them know what he's doing.