SWIM has account access to competitor's domain name and the domain that is wanted is about to expire. If I change the settings to turn off auto-renew and renew it myself with a private register what could happen? I plan on registering it, keeping the nameservers as the originals for like 60 days and then having it go to my site. Is this legal or can I get sued?
re-registering competition's domain
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Are you employed by the competitor? Can the fact that you messed with their settings be traced back to you?
It sounds illegal and like you could be sued, but I don't know for sure. I wouldn't do it if I knew them personally, if they would know I was the one who changed it, or if they could trace it back to me.
It sounds illegal and like you could be sued, but I don't know for sure. I wouldn't do it if I knew them personally, if they would know I was the one who changed it, or if they could trace it back to me.
You'll have to wait for the domain to drop before you can renew that. Between the time the domain expires and gets dropped (~45 days), the registrar would probably point the domain back to their own parked page to gauge traffic before trying to auction it off.
I don't think you'd get the domain that route.
I don't think you'd get the domain that route.
Even if you don't touch the domain and they let it drop a lot of registrar companies dont put the domain back in the pool. They hold it for auction for an additional 100 days then they let it back in. If you have access to the account and you change settings then move to another host and then to another one using greendot CC cards or something like that from a anyomoized ip you can hijack it. But would you want someone doing that to one of your domains?
You can't renew the domain with your private register. Usually each registrar provides up to 30 days of so-called grace period (Enom for example) during which an owner will be able to renew a domain.
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