using a broker

buying domain name

[reprint]

I have spotted a one page "under construction" website with a good domain name and it ranks no. 14 in google for the desired keyword currently. The whois does not show the owner, presume paid for private. The site has age around about 8 years with a max of 9 pages ever. I am not sure how to find the owner and am wondering if i should use a broker from a major domain site. Anyone any experience with this? I would really like this one.

thanks

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A broker is only going to do the same as you could do for yourself. Send an email to all the registrant/admin/tech/billing contacts in the whois. Send a snailmail to the registrant contact's address asking them to forward to the owner. Send an email and a snailmail to the registrar asking them to forward to the owner.

You could subscribe to the umentionable [DT] whois history service for 1 month and look at any historical whois records from when before the domain was made private.

That's about it.