Old owner contacts ~ New Owner

[DotWeekly]

I'm sure this has happened to you if you purchase domains at auction houses. For what ever reason, the old owner let's the domain expire (dead email, bad CC, spam filter, out of the country etc) then at some point, figures out it's gone.

The right thing for them to do, is to contact you via phone or email and express that they made a mistake, and let the domain expire and they would like to "work with you" to get the domain back.......

The wrong thing to do..... No contact, start a transfer request via 1&1 and HOPE that the new owner excepts it.

Now that was classy. lol I did send them (it's a company) a nice email this morning, explaining that because of there bad business decisions, the domain they owned for the past 12 years Expired and they no longer owned it. I am the New Owner and invested in the asset. If they would like to aquire there asset back, I would be willing to offer the domain for sale, if they contacted me and made an offer to buy it, instead of trying to see if they could steal it from me.

So now they have Two bad things going for them. One, they do not own the domain any more. Second, the person who owns it (me), is now Pissed and will make the company "pay" in more ways then one if they want it back. :sold:

 

[gazzip]

I`d love to see those e-mails. Did they come full of threats?

They basically demanded I transfered the name immediately because they owned it in a few (but not all) other extensions and they said they own the TM.

There are other very close variations of the domain in use in Europe as well as the non hyphen one owned by Name Administration Inc

I could'nt see any TM for it and I have no proof they actually ever owned it, archieve.org made me think they never did.


...I had already priced the name for less than $2,000 - They are a multmillion dollar company, if they want it they can press BUY NOW at Sedo its reasonably priced !


Yofie, how did you know who requested the transfer ? I recently had a request for one I just won at NameJet - I contacted GoDaddy but they would'nt tell me who started it.

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[DotWeekly]

The transfer request came from 1 & 1. On there requests, it stats who is starting the transfer.

"Attention: Yofie.com, WHOIS INFO removed...

Re: Transfer of SAMPLEDOMAINNAME.com

1&1 Internet Ltd. has received a request from

1&1 Internet Inc. on behalf of Company Name

on 26-Nov-2007 for us to become the new registrar of record.

You have received this message because you are listed as the Registered
Name Holder or Administrative contact for this domain name in the WHOIS
database.

Please read the following important information about transferring your
domain name:"

Blah Blah Blah....

 

[gazzip]

Ahhh, alot more info than GoDaddy gives I thought someone was "perhaps" trying to steal my name but they would'nt tell me who :td:


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[Name Trader]

The wrong thing to do..... No contact, start a transfer request via 1&1 and HOPE that the new owner excepts it.

Lo and Behold! I just received one of these transfer requests for a domain I just picked up.

 

[domainer50]

Yofie have you heard anything back from this company since you sent them your e-mail?