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Buying a domain from someone

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  • 17-04-2012 1:49pm
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    littlejp
    Registered Users Posts: 715 ✭✭✭


    I've a quick question. I made a website for a friend of mine a while ago and he has it as a .ie site.
    He now wants to get a .co.uk address for his site too but the .co.uk is already registered. I have contacted the owner and they say they will sell it to me for £50+VAT.
    I've never done this before so am a little worried that there might be problems I don't foresee. Would I be right to think that I am outright buying it and then transferring it to the same service that I use for the .ie? Will I then be able to renew it again when it expires?

    Any advice would be great.

    Thanks


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    JonathanAnon
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    When does the .co.uk domain expire..? And who is the domain hosted with, and have you contacted them to ask how you go about transferring ?

    I wouldnt pay over any money until everything is done and you have control of the domain.


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    littlejp
    Registered Users Posts: 715 ✭✭✭littlejp


    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    When does the .co.uk domain expire..? And who is the domain hosted with, and have you contacted them to ask how you go about transferring ?

    I wouldnt pay over any money until everything is done and you have control of the domain.

    Thanks for the reply.
    It expires in June 2012. It seems to be hosted on bodis.com.
    I'll look into it a bit more.

    The process of getting .ie domains makes more sense if it stops people like this registering speculative domains to sell on.


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    mneylon
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    It's a low value domain name, so you'll need to either pay the seller in advance (preferably via Paypal so you can reverse it if needed) or use an escrow agent

    Nobody's going to transfer a domain to you until they've been paid

    Kelly wrote about this recently for us: http://blog.blacknight.com/acquiring-an-unavailable-domain-name-on-your-own.html

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