Buying a domain thats already owned

[Assfault]

Theres a domain that i want to buy thats already owned by someone else. I did a whois check, but all of their information is "redacted for privacy". There is no email address that I can find to contact them on. I've thought about hiring a domain broker to help me from sites like godaddy, but they charge you quite a bit of money just for the service regardless of whether they get the domain or not + 10% commission, and they also ask you to offer a minimum of $200 on the domain. Are there any domain brokers that don't charge you anything if the deal doesn't go through? any other domain brokers that you recommend in general? and is there anyway i can try to contact the owner of the domain myself?

 

Also please educate me. How do these domain brokers contact the domain owner when all their information is private and not accessible?

[BrinkGG]

1 minute ago, Assfault said:

Theres a domain that i want to buy thats already owned by someone else. I did a whois check, but all of their information is "redacted for privacy". There is no email address that I can find to contact them on. I've thought about hiring a domain broker to help me from sites like godaddy, but they charge you quite a bit of money just for the service regardless of whether they get the domain or not + 10% commission, and they also ask you to offer a minimum of $200 on the domain. Are there any domain brokers that don't charge you anything if the deal doesn't go through? any other domain brokers that you recommend in general? and is there anyway i can try to contact the owner of the domain myself?

 

Also please educate me. How do these domain brokers contact the domain owner when all their information is private and not accessible?

You can use a site like Whois.com to figure out contact information for the owner or broker of the site. Most of the times people are not interested in selling domains that they host sites on. 

[Assfault]

1 minute ago, Brink2Three said:

You can use a site like Whois.com to figure out contact information for the owner or broker of the site. Most of the times people are not interested in selling domains that they host sites on. 

I've already done done that, but apparently because of privacy rules all of their information is protected and not public by default

[BrinkGG]

1 minute ago, Assfault said:

I've already done done that, but apparently because of privacy rules all of their information is protected and not public by default

You don't even get any Raw WhoIs data?

If you want to share the domain I can dig around and see what I can find. 

 

[Radium_Angel]

4 minutes ago, Assfault said:

I've already done done that, but apparently because of privacy rules all of their information is protected and not public by default

Contact the domain name registrar and ask them to contact the owner.

 

[Meic]

8 minutes ago, Brink2Three said:

You don't even get any Raw WhoIs data?

Not any more, you can blame/thank GDPR for that...

[BrinkGG]

15 minutes ago, Meic said:

Not any more, you can blame/thank GDPR for that...

There are a handful of US sites that I still get raw WhoIs data for and contact. Mostly owned by small parties through brokers.