Hi all
Right, background is that my boss started this company 2-3 years ago. He left his previous job basically because his boss was a knob, when he left, 3 or 4 others followed suit as they were fed up for the same reasons.
Anyways this break off group all started working together under a new company, which I now work for.
Basically the boss of the previous company is a nasty bit of work, and registered the .com address of the domain as soon as he heard what the company was to be called. In the start we were design only so all the web stuff wasnt a priority, so a co.uk domain sufficed. Now we are going all guns blazing on the web side of things obviously we want our .com address back, so not wanting to rock the boat we waited patiently until it was released.
On the day of expiration the ****er renewed it, and we were wondering what exactly can we do about it? Obviously if there are going to be massive court fees then its not worth it for a domain name, but on the other hand what this guy is doing is just spiteful and not on.
So where do we stand, what can we do etc? We have a copyright on the name of the business, the guy isnt using the .com for anything its totally empty.
Have researched into the ICANN domain name disputes but it would be handy to have the say of someone who has been here already.
Cheers
Right, background is that my boss started this company 2-3 years ago. He left his previous job basically because his boss was a knob, when he left, 3 or 4 others followed suit as they were fed up for the same reasons.
Anyways this break off group all started working together under a new company, which I now work for.
Basically the boss of the previous company is a nasty bit of work, and registered the .com address of the domain as soon as he heard what the company was to be called. In the start we were design only so all the web stuff wasnt a priority, so a co.uk domain sufficed. Now we are going all guns blazing on the web side of things obviously we want our .com address back, so not wanting to rock the boat we waited patiently until it was released.
On the day of expiration the ****er renewed it, and we were wondering what exactly can we do about it? Obviously if there are going to be massive court fees then its not worth it for a domain name, but on the other hand what this guy is doing is just spiteful and not on.
So where do we stand, what can we do etc? We have a copyright on the name of the business, the guy isnt using the .com for anything its totally empty.
Have researched into the ICANN domain name disputes but it would be handy to have the say of someone who has been here already.
Cheers
We are going to see how the legal proceedings take us, I cant see him having a leg to stand on in all honesty.