Premium domain name purchase question. Pls help

Premium domain name purchase question. Pls help

hi

I am in the US

I am looking to buy a dormant domain name a private individual is
selling from England.

I checked the site where the domain name is registrated and they do
not offer escrow services.

How can I do a transfer of funds via some kind of service that protects
me ?
What if he does not transfer the domain name after receipt of money ?

Has anyone been thru this sort of transaction ? How did you do it ?

Pls let me know.

Thanks

anna

On 8 May 2006 13:16, "anna" <annabaum100 DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote:

>I am looking to buy a dormant domain name a private individual is
>selling from England.

is this one ending .uk (.co.uk .org.uk ) - I only ask because there
are further fees, payable to Nominet, if that is the case, because they
add a few levels of burocracy in "transfers" - even if a company change
their name there is now some fee involved (though under 50 pounds).

>I checked the site where the domain name is registrated and they do
>not offer escrow services.

You might consider it safer, then, to do the transaction via Ebay, get
the seller to make a private sale to you (I believe that may be easy
enough to do). There certainly are escrow services (I don't know
what fees are payable - never sold anything but have bought low cost
items).

>How can I do a transfer of funds via some kind of service that protects
>me ? What if he does not transfer the domain name after receipt of money ?

If it is a .uk then I can certainly recommend a UK-based firm which may
be worth using to get advice about the best way to go about this. For
a start, the UK system has something called an IPSTAG (which can be
seen when you do a search for a domain name at www.nic.uk (aka
www.nominet.org.uk ) so a positive sign would be to get the seller
to change that tag, to one of a firm *you* would use in future for the
domain - it controls which firm is responsible for billing, and once a
change has been made, the old owner/ registration firm would not easily
be able to alter it back...

>Has anyone been thru this sort of transaction ? How did you do it ?

Sorry, not on an international level. With .org/com/etc it is much,
much, easier IMO. Hope the above helps - I'll also send a copy to
you by e-mail so hopefully if you need to, you'll get my e-mail
address and we can discuss it further if you wish.

[ second posting - my ISP's news server didn't accept this yesterday
night - did try sending it by e-mail too, so not sure if your mail
address is one you use for trapping junk off spammers... Peter ]