Domain Transfer Issue -- Any help please??
I would greatly appreciate and ideas for a work-around to this issue. Here is the problem:
My biz partner and I bought a website for $2K cash from a previous contact of my biz partner. He initiated the domain transfer in his registrar, sent us the EPP key (authorization transfer key) and the log in details for the WP site.
I went in to my Namecheap account, started the domain transfer process and the domain and EPP matched and so far so good…BUT, am unable to complete the domain transfer because Namecheap sends an authorization email to the admin contact email for that domain.
Now I admit we failed to double check the Whois info. The issue is that the admin contact email for this domain is apparently some previous owner or who-ever. Namecheap has sent two authorization emails to this email, with no results. We tried contacting the admin email and even calling the number listed in Whois. Turns out it is some old yahoo email account that is no longer active, and the number is old too. So we are stuck.
Yes, we tried contacting the guy we bought the site from but he is clueless, no help. Turns out my biz partner and he had some falling out some time ago which we both thought was long ago resolved. He just says he did his part, initiated the transfer and gave us the login, and too bad, and won’t respond to emails from us.
Yeah, learning something here is the school of hard knocks…BUT --3 quick questions here:
1. We have the WP site log in. Any work-around like—buying a new related domain and using 301 redirects?? Or anything along these lines?
2. If we just wait a few months until the domain expires—how can we make sure we can snag it?
3. Any ninja stuff we can try?—hell, I’ll gladly HIRE someone who can help us out here!!
Thanks.
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