Domain Name Advice

Thanks guys.

This is the Organisation that is listed for the owner as the domain - protecteddomainservices.com

When you look at the whois information for the domain, the 'private' email address acts as a forwarder.

So when you send an email to the obfuscated address (ie. example.com@protecteddomainservices.com) it actually forwards to the owner of the domain, without any extra effort on your part.

The only way this wouldn't work, is if the owner has let their contact information become outdated inside of the registrar's control panel.

If you send an email expressing interest in acquiring the domain you will probably get a reply.
Don't express too huge a desire to own the domain or the price may grow too high.
Use a personal email address rather your business email address, to keep the potential cost down.

I strongly recommend that you use www.escrow.com to complete any transaction.
(Beware .... There are some dodgy escrow services out there)
There is something very strange with protecteddomainservices.com
I think protecteddomainservices themselves are using whois privacy rather than being a service provider.

Just be careful.

Thanks Eirman.

I sent an email to the email listed on whois for protecteddomainservices and i received an open but no reply.

I don't think i'm going to get anywhere with the domain so i think i'll have to add a prefix the domain such as:

mydomain.com

All of the other suffix's are used too.

Thanks for your help.

Sorry guys... one final question.

I'm trying to find the 'whois' on another domain name that is not in use, and not parked.

the domain suffix is .link and everytime i try use a 'whois' tool / site, it adds .com to the .link such as site.link.com

Is it possible to do a 'whois' lookup on a .link

I went to http://www.whois.com/whois/
and entered security.link and I got the whois info
It should work for you

Make sure that you don't enter the www

EDIT: I also tried my preffered whois (ICANN - mentioned above) and it works fine.

Can you try ps.link

All I get is that ps.link does not exist, so it is not registered (and is perhaps too short to be allowed)

According to this http://www.ez-domainnameregistration.com/domain_name_basics.htm
3 characters is the shortest.

ab.com & xy.com exist so I'm puzzled

Rules must be different for .link - I tried a few and they simply don't exist.

https://whois.eurid.eu/en/?domain=ps.eu

So a country can block a name!

Ok cool, thanks for your help on this.

I guess i'm back to the drawing board.

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