Creating a website (rules for business)

[Trevon Peracca]

I am looking to create my website. I am curious if i have to have some type of license or business cert to do so?

I want to make it look like a business professional website and name it, but i am not i am not ready to pay the cost for an LLC or an S corp.

[Trevor Ewen]

@Trevon Peracca

I am not a Lawyer, but the internet is a bit of the wild west when it comes to laws. I always go with the approach: Act fast and do what you need to do with tech, and have the legal side ramp up around the same time.

Basically, your online domain name and web address have nothing to do with a legal entity. You buy the domain, you own it, and you put up a site. From there, as long as the site is mostly informational about your business, you're really in the position of a sole proprietor who happens to have a website. That's my take as a tech person, not as a lawyer. 

Things get muddier when you start doing transactions on the site, and when you have customer confidence issues. Most REI sites are informational, and certainly at the early stage.