Owner wants to sell to me. How to do transaction??

[Goalie35]

I've been in touch with someone who owns a domain name I'm interested in and was able to negotiate a successful sale with him.

Now, how should we go about handling the transfer/payment portion of this transaction?

I don't know the owner personally, and while he seems trustworthy, I don't want to simply send money via paypal and hope he follows through on his end nor do I want to come across as shady and say I'll send the money after it's been transferred.

Is there some service that can servce as a 3rd party for this?

Thanks.

[DomainsInc]

escrow.com

[EGS]

escrow.com

Ditto, escrow.com ftw..

[tekz999]

Escrow is not secure enough for domain transactions in my opinion. I prefer sedo escrow.

[copper]

Escrow is not secure enough for domain transactions in my opinion. I prefer sedo escrow.

Or escrowDNS.com
Or Moniker escrow.

[Focus]

if it's just a few hundred bucks just send it through normal paypal..if there is a problem save the emails and you can get them to charge it back/reverse it. If it is $x,xxx+ use escrow.com or as advised above..some type of secure service.

Whats the domain name?