Originally Posted by neilorourke

I have approached a web development company to rebuild my website.

My initial impression was that they would build this then hand it over to me. I understand though that they will retain the intellectual property rights and provide me with a life time license. This means that the website will have to remain on their server even if I decided to sell it.

Is this now the standard approach to developing web applications or is this an unusual arrangement?

Thanks

Neil