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Paul · 04-10-2007, 06:40

the story is we have a domain

companyname.com

and an ex employee who left (not by his own choice) has registered the .co.uk. he is trying to sell us the domain and is now pointing the domain to some naughty sites.

Phoned nominet but they were useless.

does anyone know of what legal action we can take seeing as the domain has our company name in it?

sub · 04-10-2007, 06:49

The fact that an ex-employee owns a domain with the same name as the company he used to work for must be a breach of contract - if you have one?

Stickman · 04-10-2007, 06:53

Have you made a complaint?

datahound · 04-10-2007, 06:54

The police may also consider that extortion? Ask them? Threaten him with it?

Terms of his contract should also have some clause about setting up in competition to yourselves which should cover owning similar domain name.

datahound · 04-10-2007, 07:02

Extortion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

d*d · 04-10-2007, 07:32

you must have really pissed that guy off

Paul · 04-10-2007, 08:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stickman

Have you made a complaint?

working on it right now

Paul · 04-10-2007, 08:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by d*d

you must have really pissed that guy off

karma

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