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Originally Posted by MarcThai
It's difficult to understand how unscrupulous some people can be. Get the heck out of there as fast as your feet can take you. These guys are crooks!
I always tell my clients to buy their own domain name. It is the same as the name of a bricks and mortar business. Without it, you can't operate.
Then I help them order their own hosting server. This is the same as renting business premises. Again, they need somewhere to operate out of that they pay for.
As a webmaster, our job is to make the website, not to control our clients' businesses. We should provide the best possible tools to help clients do the business without any worries about whether they may one day lose their ability to operate.
Even if you have signed a contract with these people and paid some money, get out. Find a decent webmaster who will work for you....not the other way around.
Better to lose a little money now and not have to worry about whether these sharks may some day take over your business and leave you penniless.
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Fully agree with you, it is
not my business to take control over a website, etc.
Without any contract on front of making an codeline, i do not start with the work.
Also without any upfront payment - no start.
About the discussion of domain(name) ownership: in a serious partnership (as i see the relationship with my customers - always!) this should never (!) be a discussion.
And - finally - it must be always be handled diferent: coding, images, text, design, layout.
I do not want to see anything of my work on another site - and this should also be in the mind of my clients.
If the 'job' is finished, i can only maintain and assist, but never own a domain/website.