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[doug02346]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? MA

I work for a restaurant. It was created and is hosted by a company in North Carolina. We are unsatisfied with their service and want to shift the service to a company locally in Massachusetts. The NC company is listed at the admin and technical contacts.

What I would like to know is are there any legal issues as to who actually owns the domain name, us or them, and what legal issues would I face if the NC company gives us a hard time about having our site hosted on someone else's server.

Thanks

 

[TheGeekess]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? MA

I work for a restaurant. It was created and is hosted by a company in North Carolina. We are unsatisfied with their service and want to shift the service to a company locally in Massachusetts. The NC company is listed at the admin and technical contacts.

What I would like to know is are there any legal issues as to who actually owns the domain name, us or them, and what legal issues would I face if the NC company gives us a hard time about having our site hosted on someone else's server.

Thanks

What does the contract say?

 

[blair2012]

Ask the company you want to take over the web site. They will know all the answers, and will be in a position to handle all the transfers. The vital thing is that eventually you need the emails listed as the administrative & registrant contacts to be under control of the owner, not an outside third party.