Actually, I'm pretty close to the 9th Circuit Judge who ruled on this issue (who owns a website) a few years ago. The problem you may have is he owns the company (if I'm reading your post correctly) and the owner of the company owns information, including content and website name.

Yours is a little bit different than the normal situation where someone buys up corporate names and holds those corporations hostage in hopes of getting a little change from them so you may have grounds for recovery based on the work you put into the site.

It's worth discussing this with an attorney, I would think.

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