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Any ideas how to contact a domain owner? - James Burnham - Jan 14, 2020
There is a domain that I want to buy, the owner has no contact forms, no email, no social networks. Whois doesn't provide an email.
Any ideas how I can get to deliver my offer to the owner? It's registered on Godaddy, would it be worth a try to ask them for some help?
RE: Any ideas how to contact a domain owner? - SUI-3183372 - Jan 14, 2020
In some cases, the email address provided in the whois, despite being cryptic looking, actually just forwards to the site admin's actual email. It depends on the whois privacy service being used, but even if you see an email such as [email protected], try sending to it and see if you get a response.
RE: Any ideas how to contact a domain owner? - James Burnham - Jan 14, 2020
(Jan 14, 2020 08:02 AM)BV1 Wrote: In some cases, the email address provided in the whois, despite being cryptic looking, actually just forwards to the site admin's actual email. It depends on the whois privacy service being used, but even if you see an email such as [email protected], try sending to it and see if you get a response.
Thanks for the info. However I see only a Registrar Abuse Contact Email.
RE: Any ideas how to contact a domain owner? - Malicious` - Jan 14, 2020
Run a WHOIS lookup on Goddaddy first to get the email to contact. According to the help article below, made by Godaddy, it does indeed redirect to the actual owner.
https://godaddy.com/whois
https://www.godaddy.com/garage/how-to-find-out-who-owns-a-domain/
RE: Any ideas how to contact a domain owner? - Charger - Jan 14, 2020
Contact a broker. They’ll contact someone within godaddy. You’re gonna pay a hefty fee