[vox] While we're on the topic of domains...

[ME]

I have no experience with this, but these kinds of things are what made me
go with Gandi - where I am the official owner (According to whois info and
from the agreement) for the domain. Even if gandi goes under, and another
registrar takes over the db, I am still the owner in the db. :-)

As for getting a lawyer, many charge you nothing for consultation to see
if they can take your case, or if they know who should take the case.
Unless someone on the list has experience with this to point you in the
right direction.

Sorry,
-ME

Shwaine said:

> Does anyone know of any good resources (documents and/or people and/or
> lawyers) for how to get NetSol to change the domain name registry when
> ownership issues arise? The issues in particular are these: my game
> registered its domain through its then current hosting company. Said
> hosting company put the registration in their name instead of mine. This
> was not a huge issue until said company seems to have went out of business
> shortly after Sept 11 (sending me back the co-loc server and all that).
> The one partner of the company I have contact with told me he would
> transfer the domain into my name last summer if I paid him and gave him
> all the pertinent info. I did so. Nearly one year later, the domain still
> has not been transferred. Basically I see this as breach of contract, but
> the issue is how to get NetSol to see this, especially since the official
> "owner" of the domain is a defunct company, and transfer the domain to me.
> Of particular stickiness is I don't know if said partner can prove he was
> actually a partner of the company or not (since I think the partnership
> ended badly and he was on the losing end and may not have been an actual
> partner by the time the company folded).
>
> TIA,
> Shwaine
>
> P.S. - I can't just let the registration expire and try to grab it up
> either since that new snap-grab-whatever service NetSol offers already has
> someone else attempting to get the domain name if the registration is
> allowed to expire.
>
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