Rule of thumb - check your email!

[draggar]

About 3-4 months ago I sent an email to the owner of a domain that I was interested in. I offered to buy it. Sure, the offer was a little bit of a lowball but it wasn't unreasonable and left plenty for negotiation.

I never received a response. I sent another email about a month ago with a slightly higher offer and again, no response.

Now, it's expired and in the renewal process.

They dropped the domain and could have easily gotten some money for a domain that they didn't want. :(

Now I need to wait for it to go though the process (BTW - how long it is from when a domain's renewal date goes by and it is on TDNAM if the domain was with GoDaddy?).

[Vinternatt]

Yeah but the previous owner will never know and will never learn any lesson from this if e-mail adress was with that domain name

[draggar]

Nope, the WhoIs wasn't with the domain. Eh, they lost out and it might be cheaper for me to get it though a drop catch service.

Their loss.

[sdsinc]

It has happened to me as well. Possibly the E-mail was no longer valid/working.

Now even crazier stuff: more than once I contacted owners of expiring domains, their reply was along the lines of "I want $5000", yet they wouldn't renew the name at once. A few days later (these were ccTLDs) the names dropped and were caught by other people (not me). Has happened twice recently. As if they are not reading my E-mails: "Your domain xxxxx is expiring and will be deleted soon, are you interested in selling the domain ?"