How Can I Contact This Domain Owner?

[fender967]

I run a clothing line (I'll leave out the name, lets just call it 'mybrand') and have been using the domain name 'mybrand'clothing.com. I just did a whois search today and realized that 'mybrand'.com is a junk blog with like three posts that hasn't been updated since 2007 and has an alexa ranking of something like 15 million.

The domain is registered through an online proxy website and there are no contact details for the owner. The website itself does have a contact email of admin@'mybrand'.com. Judging from the looks of the site, the owner hasn't touched it for years and probably doesn't check that email. The site makes absolutely no money as it has no ads and nothing of value on it.

I would love to get this domain so that I can have 'mybrand'.com instead of 'mybrand'clothing.com. The domain name is only 6 letters long and is an actual english word, so it is quite a good domain. My question to you is, how can I possibly contact this person?

 

[AbdulBasit.com]

You can try calling him or sending email and ask him if he is willing to sell the domain. You can get his email and/or phone number by going through the WHOIS of that domain.

Hope this helps

 

[chandan]

search that name in sedo if he is listed make an offer

 

[JohnPK]

- you could send an e-mail to the address listed in the whois (something like "[email protected]") which usually gets forwarded to the registrant.

- you could search the domain on archive.org to see if there was additional contact information on the website in the past

- you can use whois history at domaintools.com to check if there are older entries of the actual owner before the name was put on privacy. You have to pay to use this tool, but maybe you'll find someone who already has an account and checks this one domain for you

cheers
John

 

[spline]

First thing you should do is to check when the domain expires. If it is soon you could try to get it for "free". If its in several years you should contact the owner.

 

[exsedo]

First thing you should do is to check when the domain expires. If it is soon you could try to get it for "free". If its in several years you should contact the owner.

If its a decent name, he is unlikely to beat the drop-catchers to the domain , he would be better off making an offer. If a new owner gets it the price could rocket.

 

[SpareDomains]

If its a decent name, he is unlikely to beat the drop-catchers to the domain , he would be better off making an offer. If a new owner gets it the price could rocket.

I agree especially since he is stating...

The domain name is only 6 letters long and is an actual english word, so it is quite a good domain.

 

[copper]

6 letters long and is an actual english word
It does happen rarely, but, don't expect it to drop.
I would guess it's NOT cheap domain, so, less chance to drop.

If your other method fail, contact...
DN Investigation | Domain Name Investigations

I think it's run by NP member "rockefeller".

 

[Abideen]

hai i am new member in this forum

i think you search sedo and send email

this my idea

 

[nameboi]

Just email whois admin contact and email on website your offer, and put the offer in email title. You will need to send larger offers if you don't get a reply. And for the love of Jesus, do not talk about any irrelevant bs like "The site makes absolutely no money as it has no ads and nothing of value on it". The more you talk like that in your emails, the higher the price will be.

 

[BobTurker]

I agree, your best bet is actually trying the email address on the site. Even if it looks like it isn’t checked, they might have set it to automatically forward to an email address that they check on a regular basis. Let us know how it works out.

 

[fender967]

So far I have just emailed the contact email on the website and also the *websitename*@proxyservice.com email. Haven't heard back from either yet. I checked sedo, theres nothing about it other than that its taken. To the person that said:

Just email whois admin contact and email on website your offer, and put the offer in email title. You will need to send larger offers if you don't get a reply. And for the love of Jesus, do not talk about any irrelevant bs like "The site makes absolutely no money as it has no ads and nothing of value on it". The more you talk like that in your emails, the higher the price will be.

That is horrible advice, and I put the 'irrelevant' information in this post to get the point across that the person who owns this website probably does not care about it or check it, and therefor is not savvy on domain value or have a need to hold onto the domain. If he were thinking to sell it there would at least be a more obvious way to contact him and I would have probably heard back by now.

So if he doesn't check that email, what good is it going to do to continuously send emails with higher and higher offers? So what, when (if) he finally goes back and checks it, he sees the most i'm willing to pay instead of the initial offer?

The website is abandoned. I would be very surprised if the owner even thought about it at all in the future, which is why i'm just hoping that the forwarded admin contact on file with the proxy service is one he checks.

 

[copper]

that the person who owns this website probably does not care about it or check it, and therefor is not savvy on domain value or have a need to hold onto the domain. If he were thinking to sell it there would at least be a more obvious way to contact him and I would have probably heard back by now.

Marked with red color is NOT always true.

Good domain name gets many inquiries which lead to nothing.
Perhaps this person has many similar names and got tired of such inquiries.

Perhaps he/she is thinking that real buyer will find a way to contact him/her
if buyer really want his/her domain name.

 

[BitcoinDK]

I agree with copper, I almost never put my contact e-mail on my sites. Keep getting stupid offers.

 

[nameboi]

That is horrible advice, and I put the 'irrelevant' information in this post to get the point across that the person who owns this website probably does not care about it or check it, and therefor is not savvy on domain value or have a need to hold onto the domain. If he were thinking to sell it there would at least be a more obvious way to contact him and I would have probably heard back by now.

So if he doesn't check that email, what good is it going to do to continuously send emails with higher and higher offers? So what, when (if) he finally goes back and checks it, he sees the most i'm willing to pay instead of the initial offer?

The website is abandoned. I would be very surprised if the owner even thought about it at all in the future, which is why i'm just hoping that the forwarded admin contact on file with the proxy service is one he checks.

It's wonderful to be a smart end user buyer negotiating with a clueless domainer. You will only pay $50K or 6 figures (I can tell you that will be the minimum price for a decent dictionary .com today in a situation like yours) for something you could have gotten for free in the past. And if you wait a few more years and your business becomes really successful, you may end up paying an extra zero.

In fact, he probably set up a worthless blog on the domain so you and other business owners using the same name can not accuse him of holding the domain in bad faith. I set up worthless websites on domains in the past before contacting end users for exactly that reason.

 

[FanCube]

Finding contact information for a domain can be quite challenging and can bring out your inner detective

When searching it can be a good idea to make a list of all relevant information you find. Sometimes all these little pieces brought together can result in the information you want.

Use several databases and search engines, such as Archive.org, Google, Bing etc. Pickup all relevant information such as names, nicknames, other websites, basically everything related to the domain. For example, by searching for the domain in a search engine you might be luck to find it listed in a signature of an old forum post. Searching on the nickname of the user you might lead you further and suddenly you might end up finding valid contact information.

Then the next challenge is convincing the owner to sell at a favorable price, but that is a different story

Good luck!