Ask Hn: How can I buy a parked domain if they have private registration?

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16 years ago

I'm trying to buy a domain name from someone that's just kind of squatting on it. They bought it back in 1997 and using http://www.archive.org I was able to determine that they were trying to start a web hosting company. Since 2001 the domain has been parked and it's registered until September 2012.

The way I see it I can do 2 things:

1. Try to contact the person using the contact info in the whois records

2. Wait until it expires and do what Mike Davidson did to buy newsvine.com (see below for link)

The domain is registered with private registration (of course), so I shot an e-mail off a couple of weeks ago to the contact person at the registrar to see if they could put me into contact with the owner. No answer as of yet.

What would you do?

Article Link From Above: http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/03/how-to-snatch-an-expiring-domain

[Edit: Fixed formatting. I'll get the hang of it yet!]

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