Legal Question in Technology Law in New Jersey
Internet Domain Ownership?
I worked for a co. that had a HORRIBLE domain name. I was Marketing Director/Rep, so to make my job easier I bought a new, more easily remembered domain name. I pointed the new domain name to the old site/domain. I paid for it on my credit card, I never charged the company for it. Do a whois check and it's ME that is listed as owner. Marketing materials were made with MY domain name.
Since I left the company I (out of courtesy) left my domain pointed at the old domain. Now my old boss is basically threatening me to give him the domain name I bought or he will ''take it to the next level''. I have researched the worth of the domain and it is worth several thousand dollars...especially valuable to other businesses within the industry with similar set-ups/equipment.
The company bought several new locations and their new marketing person wants to make a new website with an even more appropriate domain for a website that would cover ALL the locations.
I said I would continue to point my domain to their NEW domain for a reasonable amount of time to ''phase it out''...a year, at no charge, until all of their marketing materials, cards, etc are reprinted with the new domain name.
Am I in the right? I'd like to sell the URL
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Internet Domain Ownership?
Look, if you own it, you own it. Obviously, you own it, because they would not be asking you for it. Feel free to call me and I will help you broker a sale with these guys. Anyone who threatens to "take it to the next level" means they don't know what the next level is, and they are just threatening. Feel free to call me or e-mail directly.
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