Domain owner passed away

[chiller]

I am in a weird situation. There is a domain that I was looking into trying to buy. I had trouble contacting the domain owner, but I eventually found out that he died a few years ago.

Is there any way to go about buying the domain?

 

[RON2]

It can be complicated. You'll have to deal with whomever is in charge of the Estate of the deceased. Hopefully they have access to his e-mail address and the whole thing will be easy (submit a transfer request)

Otherwise, the Estate will have to take it up with the registrar. I know Versign has a procedure in place to deal with this that involves faxing proof of death, etc.