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ARTICLE · 27 MARCH 2020

I Paid For It, So I Own It, Right? Well…

You've formed your company, and you've qualified to do business (if you haven't, see last week's blog). But more than that, you've engaged a third-party web designer (not your employee) to create a web site for you.

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You've formed your company, and you've qualified to do business (if you haven't, see last week's blog). But more than that, you've engaged a third-party web designer (not your employee) to create a web site for you. Furthermore, you had a written contract, you paid the web designer and the web designer delivered. Your site is hosted and up and running. You are all set, right?

Do you own your website? Let's talk about that.

There are really two separate issues here. First is the domain name (e.g. startup-information.com). For purposes of this discussion, let's assume you did the right thing and registered your domain with your company as the registrant of the domain. In a future post, we will discuss issues around domain names in much more depth.

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