There is a particular domain (.com) I wish to buy, but it's one of those annoying parking pages which pretends to be a search engine/portal thingy. I have emailed both the address listed on its Whois record, but the first bounced (illegal?) and the second ignored me. Any ideas? PS - Is there a better forum &/or tag for this thread?
Basically, domain squatters make some money from the ads they host; but most of it comes from selling the domain at an extortionate rate. If you can't get in touch through the WHOIS record, there should be a way of contacting them through the site. they do want you to get in touch after all.
Usually they'll ask something extortionate, then you say no, they offer less, you say no, they offer less, you say no... then they give it to you for something you'd actually pay for a good domain name that you really want It's a ****ing joke really, but I guess if you want it that much, well, that's what it'll cost you
I got in touch with the company that parked on my old domain, they asked for £195 to transfer it back
boo. if only we (the browsing public) could devalue the parked domains. better would be to replace the domain system so that you have to have something genuinely relevant to the url.
