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Originally Posted by bigmack83
I have looked on the net and was unable to find a place where I could get some questions answered about the website i am making. . . .
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Sticky situation.
Were you ever paid for the development that you believe you own? If so, you probably don't own it, esp. if you were paid as a contractor.
You don't own the domain name, so as you are in a potentially adversarial realtionship now, you probably can't do squat about that.
The fact that you are covering the hosting seems irrelevant to me. If you don't want to pay for the hosting anymore, don't. What is your obligation as you said you signed no contract? Hosting is its own service. It shouldn't have anything to do with ownership of content either way.
RE: "If he owns "my business name" does he still own "mybusinessname.com" content if I designed it?"
Whoever owns the DBA, owns that, and whoever owns the domain name owns that. This has little or nothing to do with the site content as long as you weren't contracted and paid to develop it. And DBA's and Domain Names are not the same thing.
As you are not partner to the LLP, you are pretty much SOL on the DBA.
RE: "i just wanted to know where the content of the site would be at if he wants to try and take it from me and I built the whole thing myself"
Well, here's the rub: if he or anyone else has any access to those source files via FTP, FrontPage Exctensions, or even search engine cache, they've got your content. Only thing you could do then is challenge them in court.
I'm sorry, but it seems to me you need to have a little "tough love" upbranding here:
You really should have secured a contract, esp. as you are not a partner. You really have no cards to play now except for shutting down the hosting, for which you could possibly be held liable, unless there are some terms agreed upon here -- like at least a payment arrangement that stipulates payment terms such that you can shut down the site for non-payment of hosting service. But even then, unless your adversary is an idiot, he's probably alrady got all off the source code.