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Buying a domain that wasn't renewed and sold

Hollister11 · 2015-05-15 21:02:22

There was a website which was a forum for our town. Whoever owner the domain let it expire. They either forgot to, didn't want to, or even could of passed away. The domain was bought by a japenses person/company and its advertising skincare products, with a domain not even relating to the product. My question is how do I…

15-05-2015 9:02pm

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Hollister11

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There was a website which was a forum for our town. Whoever owner the domain let it expire. They either forgot to, didn't want to, or even could of passed away.
The domain was bought by a japenses person/company and its advertising skincare products, with a domain not even relating to the product.

My question is how do I go about contacting the current owner and buying the domain back ?

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#2 16-05-2015 12:13am

HelpWithIT

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Don't bother, there are so many domain name extensions now that you can pick and choose, if .org is available for your domain name then go for it

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