[stomachmonkey]

Alex,

Here is what will happen.

1) They will tell you building the website was $x,xxx.xx
2) Hosting the website was $xxx.xx per month
3) They spent $x,xxxx.xx on advertising and placement (google)
4) $XXX.XX per month went to support
5) Their analytics will report XXX number of visitors to your site per month and they will tie the referral to their initiatives.

All of those will be valid expenses and performance as defined by the contract and would likely be considered by the court as such. Meaning it gets deducted from the $16+k you are seeking.

The $4k they offered you will be what they have determined was unrealized traffic / value from the bad link.

And BTW, this was my suspicion earlier but now confirmed.

Part of the $3k per month is for the hosting. If you cancel that contract without moving your hosting, as I suggested multiple times, your website goes bye bye, which is why I was adamant that you switch registrar and hosting.