How can I buy a domain that appears to be already taken?

[stridemat]

You certainly can just move in and make yourself at home. It's up to the owner to turn up and have you chucked out (for breaking and entering, tresspass etc.). After six years, if the owner hasn't done that, it's yours.

EXACTLY what I'm proposing I should be able to do with the domain. Let me buy and use it until the current owner says he wants to use it.




See the point above and in most posts I've made on this thread.

10 to 12 years. Anyway we are arguing over examples. You can't buy the domain if it is not being sold. You may be able to request it from Nominet (the UK registar).

 

[advres]

The domain name didn't transfer over with the sale of the business. They are not linked. Contact the hair dressers and ask them who they bought the property from and get that persons contact. Contact them and ask if they would be willing to sell. They most likely will let you have it if it has been that long and not used. It's not rocket science. But no, there is no way to just 'use it'.

Many small companies bought url's in the anticipation of building a website and never did. It took me 3 years until I finally had mine built but I bought the URL so no one else could get it.

 

[Fantasy Guy]

So, someone goes on a long vacation and you think it's okay to just move in? I mean, I looked for the owner. He's gone, so it's mine, right? Then the owner comes back and now has to go to court to get me out of his house??

Kind of true. If the owner went on holiday for six years and you'd tried to find them, then there'd be no court to go to - it's yours.

 

[yg17]

You certainly can just move in and make yourself at home. It's up to the owner to turn up and have you chucked out (for breaking and entering, tresspass etc.). After six years, if the owner hasn't done that, it's yours.

So if you go on vacation for a month, I can come over to your house and live there, without your permission, until you come home and kick me out? I tried to find you but you weren't home.

 

[stridemat]

Kind of true. If the owner went on holiday for six years and you'd tried to find them, then there'd be no court to go to - it's yours.

Its more complicated than that. The 'squatter' has to apply to the Land Registry after 10 years of actual possession, who then have to make all reasonable efforts to contact the original land owner. The land owner then has two years to start trespass legal proceedings. If this doesn't happen the land belongs to the squatter.

This is still a simplified version of adverse possession.

 

[Fantasy Guy]

So if you go on vacation for a month, I can come over to your house and live there, without your permission, until you come home and kick me out? I tried to find you but you weren't home.

Of course you can. What bit of this is so hard to understand?!

Break a window, go in and enjoy. Until me/my neighbour/the police get you out, it's yours to enjoy.

If you live in it for 10-12 years without any objection, you can go to a court and, by proving you've lived in it all that time, have the title deed changed. It's yours.

Look up adverse possession.

 

[xUKHCx]

I think the question has been answered, right now this thread is going no where good so it is closed.