Ask YC: How is a site/domain/idea legally tied to an incorporated company?

[shafqat]

What is the legal relationship between a website/idea/domain name and the company that is incorporated by its founders. Is that defined in the company bylaws explicitly? If so, which particular document does that?

Is it implicitly understood that XZY Corp owns the website and domain for XYC.com since the founders of ZXY Corp own the domain XYZ.com?

Hope this makes question makes sense. I've always wondered how the two are tied together.

[pg]

Founders in a startup usually sign something assigning IP related to the company to the company.

[kf]

It's implicitly understood that way if you all implicitly understand it that way.

Perhaps a better thing to do if you aren't defining any bylaws is to get a new, shared username at namecheap/etc. and transfer the domains there.

[ScottWhigham → kf]

Some of the bigger sites also feature multiple user accts