Domain Name Dispute?
I am helping a charity re-work their website. They had a volunteer doing it years before me, but lately she hasnt been touching the site. However, she is still in the scene and doesn\’t know they\’re re-working the site on her.
I\’m concerned about getting the domain name. The registrant name is someone who is friendly with the charity but no longer works there, the reg number is the charity, but the reg email is of the old volunteer. The administrative contact is someone who works there still.
Will this be an issue. I\’m assuming the old volunteer has the login cridentals and I\’m afraid she won\’t give them up. Is she obligated to, since the registrant-organizaion is the name of the charity?
(I got all my information from doing a whois by the way… not sure how accurate they are…)
When I say the old volunteer has the login cridentals, I mean she is probably the one who registered the domain name, thus she\’d have the login information to change the DNS
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July 19th, 2010 at 12:40 am
It sounds like that although you suspect there may be a dispute, you don’t really know. At some point this person is going to find out, so some contact is inevitable. It is possible that the administrative contact might have the registrant login. Have you checked this? More than one person could know the login. If so this person could give you the login or change the Email to you or someone else. If you are looking to transfer the domain to a different registrar, then that Email will receive notice that a transfer has been requested.
If this volunteer owns the account with the registrar, they could, if they wanted try to hold the domain name hostage. However, the charity would most certainly win any legal action, so it would really be pointless. Therefore, if this person were unreasonable, a threat of legal action would probably be enough.
Whois is generally accurate, by the way.
July 19th, 2010 at 1:39 am
Whois is accurate. You can always get the login info at the charity office, since keeping record of these are their responsibility. Once you have logged on successfully, through the registrar’s login link, change the domain email id and password, through the setup.
Now you are safe.
Good luck!
Vera Chandler.
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