https://www.bebravernow.com/case-studies/Recent content in Case studies on be braver nowHugoen-GBhttps://www.bebravernow.com/case-studies/domain-hostage/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://www.bebravernow.com/case-studies/domain-hostage/<p>A company selling maintenance contracts came to me stuck. Their old web company still held the domain and the social accounts and would not hand them over. The website was years out of date and nobody at the company had a login to change it.</p> <p>They had paid for that site. They had paid for it every year since. None of it was in their name.</p> <h2 id="getting-it-back">Getting it back</h2> <p>Domain disputes are usually not a fight, they are paperwork that nobody wants to do. The registrant details, the billing history and the correspondence establish who it belongs to, and the registrar has a process. It is slow and it is dull, and most people give up at the point where it stops being obvious what to do next.</p>