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I have a domain that I won from a Pool.com auction back in November of 2003. For the past several months, I have been getting requests to transfer the name out from Domain Registry of America. I finally got them to stop and now NameJuice.com is trying to transfer them out. I figured someone was trying to hijack the name. I found out that it is a lady who was the previous owner who is trying to transfer it out. I did a history lookup on Whois.sc to find the previous owner and she owned it from September of 1999 through September of 2003 and then of course I captured it in November two months after it expired.
I contacted her today and she was in tears thinking she still owned the name. She said she was trying to transfer it away from Network Solutions back in 2003 to another company and apparently, it didn't go through. She forwarded me her email from the company that she was transferring to which interestingly enough is Domain Registry of America. The email is from July of 2003 which would have been plenty of time to make the transfer happen. She sent DROA a check for $85 for a 5 year renewal and their email is confirming that they received it.
I realize that I don't have anything to worry about as I obtained the name in a perfectly legal fashion. However, I feel sorry for her because the name is pretty good. It sounds like she would have a pretty good case against DROA. What does everyone here think?
I actually had to outbid several people to obtain the name. The domain has value to me, but for the right price, I would sell my wife (oops! Did I say that?)
If there is an attorney that thinks she has a good case against DROA?
Maybe Mr. Berryhill might be interested in this.
I can PM an attorney the domain name and I can send her your information for her to contact you.
I contacted her today and she was in tears thinking she still owned the name. She said she was trying to transfer it away from Network Solutions back in 2003 to another company and apparently, it didn't go through. She forwarded me her email from the company that she was transferring to which interestingly enough is Domain Registry of America. The email is from July of 2003 which would have been plenty of time to make the transfer happen. She sent DROA a check for $85 for a 5 year renewal and their email is confirming that they received it.
I realize that I don't have anything to worry about as I obtained the name in a perfectly legal fashion. However, I feel sorry for her because the name is pretty good. It sounds like she would have a pretty good case against DROA. What does everyone here think?
I actually had to outbid several people to obtain the name. The domain has value to me, but for the right price, I would sell my wife (oops! Did I say that?)
If there is an attorney that thinks she has a good case against DROA?
Maybe Mr. Berryhill might be interested in this.
I can PM an attorney the domain name and I can send her your information for her to contact you.