I agree with Greg K. If an

C0ldf1re — Mon, 23 May 2011 06:05:45 +0000

I agree with Greg K. If an employee constructs a website for his employer, then his employer owns the website. If the employee paid for the domain with his own money, he nonetheless holds it "in trust" for his employer. I have actually faced the same situation, albeit in another jurisdiction.

Check your websites ownership

keyideas — Mon, 09 May 2011 04:55:48 +0000

Check your websites ownership and try to change your hosting provider. You can also change domain registrant by requesting your present registrant

Although this thread is old,

Greg K — Mon, 09 May 2011 03:34:20 +0000

Although this thread is old, this thread interests me.

It is said that the site was done while the person was "With Us". If that refers to the person being a full time employee, and the site design was done during work hours, and there was no employment agreement stating otherwise, then (double check with a lawyer) the company owns the copyright to site.

Regardless, either way, use a tool like http://www.httrack.com/ to grab a static copy of your site.

This is a good example of why something like this needs to be in writing. You may think someone will never leave, but you never know.

If you type your domain name

technologynow — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:06:37 +0000

If you type your domain name into http://whois.domaintools.com/ it will tell you the name of the hosting company, the address of the server company, who owns the domain name, the company the name is registered with, when it was registered and when the registration ends, and who the admin contact is for the domain.

You may find that the company owns the name, but the individual is named as the contact.

You may be able to contact the hosting company and get them to change their records, so that (armed with a new username and password) someone can alter your site and lock out your former employee.

You may be able to contact the registering company and get them to change the registration details.

If you have an internal email, for example info@yourcompany.com or joe@yourcompany.com, etc., you would probably have more chance of successs, as an internal email would help prove that you were genuine and not a con to try and take over someone elses site.

If not, and if your company actualy paid for the registration and you have a receipt to prove it, you may consider going to the police. There may be two offences. 1. He may have appropriated a site he's not entitled to (stolen it), 2. He may be guilty of blackmail.

Hope that helps.