Hello all.

I have a friend that lost his domain name. Don ask me why, he just didn't pay for it. Anyway he need to get it back. Immediately after the redemption period the domain is to registered to:

Registrar: COMPANA, LLC
Whois Server: whois.budgetnames.com
Referral URL: http://www.budgetnames.com
Name Server: NS1.RENTALQUEUE.COM
Name Server: NS2.RENTALQUEUE.COM
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 24-feb-2005
Creation Date: 24-feb-2005
Expiration Date: 24-feb-2006

He is thinking on buying it but since he is not in USA he wants to have a company that could negotiate a good price and recover the domain for him.

Any recommendations or suggestions based on previous experiences?

Thanks in advance for all your help and comments.

Take care,

JB

I think it would be more cost effective and efficient for YOU to negotiate for your friend and then have a service like Escrow.com or sedo.com handle the escrow if the negotiated purchase price is sufficient to justify it.

Whatever you do... the more inquiries about the name to BudgetNames.com will raise the price. So I would choose just ONE negotiator and not have a whole bunch of people trying get better prices - it will only drive the price UP!

I'm not familar with BudgetNames, but it looks like they are out of Texas. I lived in Texas for 15 years and most people there do business on a handshake and they stand by their word (unlike California where I now live - the land of fruits and nuts :nuts: ). They have a tough laws in Texas and if the amount you negotiate is under $200, I would just pay it and bypass the escrow services myself.

Just my opinion... but like I say, I've never done business with BudgetNames.com and I have never heard of them before.

Good Luck! ;)

Hello all.

Thanks for the comments.

Seems like is not going to be easy or cheap get back that domain.

The final user of the domain do not understand why someone took the domain and why now they are asking a lot of money for returning it back. The problem is that my fiend was , according to the user, the responsible of the lost. My friend is even in the mood of pay a reasonable amount to get it back and with that get a solution with this client. That's why he was looking for a broker company with experience on this and that could give results.

Thanks a lot for all the time.

I'll post the end of the story , if they recover the domain. Maybe this could help someone in the future.

JB

jbiquez,

Hope your friend will get the domain name back for a reasonable price.

Good luck