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d-null · 04-19-2008, 10:13 PM

This is kind of strange, never had it happen before...

I bought an expired domain a while back, registered it and everything, and the strange thing is that the domain was still resolving to the old owner's nameserver, and even to this day it still is... I never bothered to reset the nameservers as I have been busy and it seemed fine to stay with their website....

the funny thing is, they are still updating the website, pretty much on a monthly basis

I am not sure what I am going to do, they don't even realize that they have lost ownership and control of their domain. It is a government type agency too, with a .org domain... pr4 with a little bit of traffic and I know the web address is printed on all of their publications, so I am sure they would be pretty sad to lose the domain.

not sure how to proceed, if I contact them I could probably get accused of squatting? if I pull the plug on them and change nameservers without saying anything, it seems kind of low.... I've owned it for about 5 months now.

04-19-2008, 10:13 PM
d-null . . . Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: NY Posts: 13,724	STRANGE - I bought an Expired Domain.... This is kind of strange, never had it happen before... I bought an expired domain a while back, registered it and everything, and the strange thing is that the domain was still resolving to the old owner's nameserver, and even to this day it still is... I never bothered to reset the nameservers as I have been busy and it seemed fine to stay with their website.... the funny thing is, they are still updating the website, pretty much on a monthly basis I am not sure what I am going to do, they don't even realize that they have lost ownership and control of their domain. It is a government type agency too, with a .org domain... pr4 with a little bit of traffic and I know the web address is printed on all of their publications, so I am sure they would be pretty sad to lose the domain. not sure how to proceed, if I contact them I could probably get accused of squatting? if I pull the plug on them and change nameservers without saying anything, it seems kind of low.... I've owned it for about 5 months now.