SEO Identity Theft & Copyright Violator

We are the victims of an SEO who hosted our two domains for a month and we notified him we no longer wanted his service. Immediately after we notified him of our termination of hosting, he penetrated our godaddy.com account, manipulated our account and re-registered our corporate domains into his name and is now running spam on the internet under our domains.

He is being investigated on criminal charges right now of course and copyright violations as well.

Are question is how do we get those two domains to stop running on the internet as he has them linked to spam sites and do not use us blogs he hand wrote etc?

This is a nightmere and unheard of but it is happening to us

I believe there is a process you can use through icann, not sure as haven't read up on it. Check with Godaddy.com about domain name disputes of owners. I am confident there is a process of unauthorized account changes.

The second thing is get an attorney if you don't have one already. There are financial consequences to actions like this that can be awarded in court. Though the perp may be "broke" today, he may have assets to take right now (car, boat, motorcycle, etc. etc. etc) and always the potential for future payment from earnings after any criminal issues are served (jail)

Have you ever heard of this Shawn Richeson or clickanerd.com out of Texas? We are in total disbelief that this guy runs scams on people like this. This is our first dealing with an SEO but we had no idea about this clickanerd.com scam. The Guy is a convicted felon on parole as well

Wow, guess we sure did not do our homework