How to purchase an already purchased domain name?
Question by Alex M: How to purchase an already purchased domain name?
I am looking to purchase a specific domain name for my company. The name is already purchased by someone else and is unavailable. If the name is just taken and there is no site online is there any way to contact that owner?
Best answer:
Answer by iamrlk
Bummer! You be out of luck!
Why would you want to associate your Business with someone Else’s?
Wait till it’s available! Beat the owner to renew it!
Use .net or .bz instead of .com!!!
Hey there’s an Echo in here!
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Open command prompt (Start, type in cmd) or another shell
whois domain.com
There you will probably find some contact info.
You could also renew the domain before them if you’re willing to wait and are fast enough.
Should be available on the ‘whois’ lookup unless they have chosen to be anonymous, check this link:
http://whois.domaintools.com/
Type in the domain, and see what comes up.
If it’s a trading site, you may get a name, possible even an email address, you will also get details of the service they are registered with. Getting in touch with the registration service is probably not going to help except as a last resort…
If there is not sufficient details on record, you can try emailing [email protected]’your-chosen-domain’.com, or [email protected]… etc… see if you can get through to the owner that way. Check the actual site (if one has been built) and see if there are any contact details…
Hope this helps