Legal Question in Technology Law in Oregon

Re: Transfer of domain name.

A partner may not deliberately harm the partnership or the other partner(s).

Consult a business/commercial lawyer in your town to find out your rights and how to proceed.

Re: Transfer of domain name.

This will likely require a litigation seeking an injunction against Partner A by the business. If the suit is successful and there is a court order, the registrar will follow it and rectify the DNS assignments for the domain and change the contacts and owner of the domain to the proper one. This is a known risk of a business in using a domain name. In your case, the business did not understand domain name rights or this would not have been allowed to happen. That can happen in partnerships where a disloyal partner is the one with the internet knowledge.

Re: Transfer of domain name.

This is probably fixable, and if the domain registrar is reasonable it may not require recourse to the courts (I fixed one of these recently on behalf of a corporate client in similar circumstances, simply by explaining the situation to the domain registrar and convincing them to first freeze the name and then change the contact information to agents designated by the corporation -- the registrar asked for a bunch of corporate formalities to substantiate the authority of the corporate officers to act, but then did exactly what we asked). You should retain a qualified lawyer in your jurisdiction to handle this for you.

Best wishes,

LDWG