Whois not helping me find the owner..........

[notoriousfrench]

I have a domain I would like to make an offer on but I can't get the email info. What should
my next step be? The Whois is private.

Thanks
Greg

[cbk]

if you cant find any other links on a google search related to contact info for that domain name, you can use GoDaddy buy service or another buy service to get in contact with that owner even if whois is private, they will also give you an appraisal and negotiate for you.

[Coldforce]

Email the privacy email stated in who.is, the email is linked to an email address of the owner

[notoriousfrench]

Thanks, I will give that a try.

[katherine]

One trick that might work with some registrars, is to do a whois query on port 43 (from the *nix command line), rather than use the web interface.

[Gerry]

Give me some Mr. T cereal, fool!

[SiberForum]

I have a domain I would like to make an offer on but I can't get the email info. What should
my next step be? The Whois is private.

Email to them using email which you see on the page. If your email is not spam (it is not a spam) they are supposed to forward that to current domain name owner.

[angel69]

unless the registrant set things up as to not receive any email sent to the pvcy add on the whois, or if their systems detect yours as spam, the owner should be able to get any email sent to the pvcy add on the whois, and contacting registrars works too, they may agree to send the owner your email and he'll email you directly if he wants to sell

[Aristo]

One trick that might work with some registrars, is to do a whois query on port 43 (from the *nix command line), rather than use the web interface.

Katherine, would you mind going into some details about this.

[katherine]

If you have a Linux box, try something like this from the command line:

whois -h whois.moniker.com moniker.com [Enter]

Here you are explictly querying the moniker.com whois server for the domain name moniker.com

It is sometimes possible to look up NIC handles the same way - instead of domain name enter the NIC handle.
Sometimes it must be preceded by c (contact) and a space. The syntax may vary from one server to another.
Often it's the only way to retrieve NIC handle data.

And if you don't have the whois utility you can use plain telnet against port 43

telnet whois.moniker.com 43 [Enter]
Trying 208.73.208.99...
Connected to whois.moniker.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
moniker.com [Enter]

[willpower101]

if you cant find any other links on a google search related to contact info for that domain name, you can use GoDaddy buy service or another buy service to get in contact with that owner even if whois is private, they will also give you an appraisal and negotiate for you.

So what about going through the sedo broker? It's like 60 bucks or something but they tell you to include your max price on their form.
So do they not appraise it for you like godaddy does?
Are brokers the most successful way to acquire a domain like this?

In my case, the domain is registered, but sitting with an emty cgi-bin for years, and the non-private email address bounces.
In a second case it's identical but registered in Japan I NEED one of these, lol