Restoring 'abandoned' domain content from waybackmachine

[wrazz]

I found a domain with good ranking, that appears to be parked by a new owner. I would like buy it and put it back to work with it's old content so the old links and search listings find the expected stuff. It ranks enough to be in the waybackmachine archive,hat are the implications of restoring it from the archive when the original owner is unreachable.? All the legaleze reads "copyright domainName"

 

[Drake]

You know the answer to this. Why are you asking?

Legally your fucked. But you might try it and get away with it. But of course you have no legal leg to stand on. Assuming that you are in the USA and original owner was in USA.

Most other countries too.

 

[gary.b]

Old content becomes "new" content with Mr. Markov & a thesaurus..

copyright? what's that? short for Copy-Rightclick-Paste ?

 

[bizzykehl]

I've had to do this on a client's site due to dreamweaver being a shitty application taht chooses to overwrite entire sites.

 

[_poto_]

I've picked up a number of dropped domains and ripped the old sites from the waybackmachine... so far I've only had 1 person C&D me over one of those dropped domains, and even then he was only bitching about a logo, so I just whipped up a new one in 5 minutes and all was good...

odds are you'll never hear about it, but if you're really paranoid just rewrite the content and make new graphics...