Hello /g/
A family member of mine owned an important .com domain name, and, without telling me, didn't renew it.
Apparently HugeDomains.com registered it, and will only sell it for $2000. I can't snipe it, since ICANN says
>Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Which means it's locked, so I need the permission of the registrant to transfer it away.
Anyone have experience dealing with premium domain scams? I don't want to give them $2000, since it's extortion. Is there another way?
>>53827638
None that will cost you <$2000.
Renew your domains or lose them.
You either fucked up or are trying to socially engineer /g to help you scam someone. Either way you're a moron. If the domain is that important to you, buy it.
>>53827665
The family member in question owned our last name as a .com, and we'd been trying for years to get him to give it to us, but he refused. Faggot was in debt, so I assume that's why he dropped it. It's not impossible that he's behind the premium domain scam, to try to get $2000 our of us, but not so likely, as he doesn't have the kind of technical knowledge to even know what a premium domain is.
>>53827763
Bump, anyone else?
>>53827882
Nobody else has experience dealing with the Domain Grubber?
>>53827638
I don't know OP, I think you're fucked. There's no way that I know of to snatch the domain.
On a semi-related note, what's the deal with premium domains where the domain registry charges you more than the normal price for each renewal?
>>53828071
I don't know about that, I can buy my premium domain on hover.com for $2000, but it says that afterwards the renewal rate is their normal .com rate.
Obviously when you buy a premium domain, you shouldn't keep the same registrar, that's just asking for trouble. Often the registrar and the premium domain after-market are owned by the same person, which is pretty clever. e.g. my domain is registered at HugeDomains.com, its registrar is NameBright.com, both are owned by the same people.
>>53827638
You could sue them, and most likely prove that their purchase was malicious and get refunded+damages(good luck proving them), but that would cost more than $2k.
>>53828229
Yeah, the renewal rate being the normal one is the type of premium domain I was familiar with, but this seems to be Donuts just squeezing money out of people for popular domains.
(This is for one of those newer generic TLDs btw)
>>53827958
If someone currently owns it and it's registered and for sale, then the only way is to purchase it for asking price.
>>53827763
Does your family have a business? If not, you have no business owning a .com domain.
Register the appropriate tld you fuck.
>>53828445
"This is an open TLD; any person or entity is permitted to register. Though originally intended for use by for-profit business entities, for a number of reasons it became the "main" TLD for domain names and is currently used by all types of entities including nonprofits, schools, and private individuals." - Wikipedia
>>53828445
Were you the technical consultant for the Jeb! campaign? Haha, now I know why JebBush.com used to redirect to DonaldJTrump.com.
