Re: "for sale" domain owners don't respond to email

Bush is a Fascist wrote

Hi folks,

Lately I've been shopping for a domain, and I have been
encountering, like most people have no doubt, that many
domains are owned by people who aren't using them,
although they might have a page full of links.
Often there is some note saying that the domain is "for sale".

However when I email the owners, they never ever respond.
Even if it says to inquire about buying at some email,
it's useless because they never respond.

Why is that? Are they selling domains on Ebay or something?

Thanks for any clues.

Who knows. I have encountered the same thing with names that are not
(apparently) being used. I even wrote a proper letter to a registrant
once, asking if the name was for sale. Didn't get a reply.

I'm surprised that for a name which is advertised for sale, you don't
get a reply. Have you tried emailing the whois contact?

--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
Charles Sweeney of alt.www.webmaster make plain:

Bush is a Fascist wrote

Hi folks,

Lately I've been shopping for a domain, and I have been
encountering, like most people have no doubt, that many
domains are owned by people who aren't using them,
although they might have a page full of links.
Often there is some note saying that the domain is "for sale".

However when I email the owners, they never ever respond.
Even if it says to inquire about buying at some email,
it's useless because they never respond.

Why is that? Are they selling domains on Ebay or something?

Thanks for any clues.

Who knows. I have encountered the same thing with names that are not
(apparently) being used. I even wrote a proper letter to a registrant
once, asking if the name was for sale. Didn't get a reply.

When I first brought my business to the web, I tried to register
holotech.com, but it was taken, so I went with holotech.net. After a
while I had a few bucks laying around, and decided to see if the guy
wanted to sell the .com, as he had no site on it.

I tried everything I could think of to contact this guy. No response by
email. No response by snail mail. No answer after endless ringing at the
phone number. I Altavista'd (no Google back then) his name, somehow found
his (former) ISP, and called them. They told me that if I managed to find
him, to let them know, as he owed them money.

This guy could have made a few hundred bucks off me, but never responded.
A year or so later the registration expired and I snagged it.

--
Alan Little
Phorm PHP Form Processor
http://www.phorm.com/

Alan Little wrote

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
Charles Sweeney of alt.www.webmaster make plain:

Bush is a Fascist wrote

Hi folks,

Lately I've been shopping for a domain, and I have been
encountering, like most people have no doubt, that many
domains are owned by people who aren't using them,
although they might have a page full of links.
Often there is some note saying that the domain is "for sale".

However when I email the owners, they never ever respond.
Even if it says to inquire about buying at some email,
it's useless because they never respond.

Why is that? Are they selling domains on Ebay or something?

Thanks for any clues.

Who knows. I have encountered the same thing with names that are not
(apparently) being used. I even wrote a proper letter to a
registrant once, asking if the name was for sale. Didn't get a
reply.

When I first brought my business to the web, I tried to register
holotech.com, but it was taken, so I went with holotech.net. After a
while I had a few bucks laying around, and decided to see if the guy
wanted to sell the .com, as he had no site on it.

I tried everything I could think of to contact this guy. No response
by email. No response by snail mail. No answer after endless ringing
at the phone number. I Altavista'd (no Google back then) his name,
somehow found his (former) ISP, and called them. They told me that if
I managed to find him, to let them know, as he owed them money.

This guy could have made a few hundred bucks off me, but never
responded. A year or so later the registration expired and I snagged
it.

Interesting indeed. Just occurred to me, that might happen if someone
dropped dead.

LOL at the "owing money" bit!

--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
Charles Sweeney of alt.www.webmaster make plain:

Alan Little wrote

When I first brought my business to the web, I tried to register
holotech.com, but it was taken, so I went with holotech.net. After a
while I had a few bucks laying around, and decided to see if the guy
wanted to sell the .com, as he had no site on it.

I tried everything I could think of to contact this guy. No response
by email. No response by snail mail. No answer after endless ringing
at the phone number. I Altavista'd (no Google back then) his name,
somehow found his (former) ISP, and called them. They told me that if
I managed to find him, to let them know, as he owed them money.

This guy could have made a few hundred bucks off me, but never
responded. A year or so later the registration expired and I snagged
it.

Interesting indeed. Just occurred to me, that might happen if someone
dropped dead.

Hmm. I never thought of that.

--
Alan Little
Phorm PHP Form Processor
http://www.phorm.com/