From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: February 26, 2006
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: how do I regain control of a domain?
>
> Leo,
> --------------
> I have a
> webmaster who is now MIA and the URL is in his name. How do
> I regain ownership of this URL? It is due to be updated in
> August 2006.
>
> The webmaster has taken down his server, left his day job,
> turned off his phones and moved, so he is a dead end less my
> lawyers get to him!
You can try contacting the domain registrar, but in reality,
they'll need some compelling evidence that you have some kind
of rights to the domain.
You could wait until August, and have your domain registrar
snag it as soon as it expires.
Or, and perhaps the safest approach, is, in fact, to get a
lawyer involved.
But all the options are fairly unpleasant.
Thanks for asking,
Leo
Article 9908
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