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The best way to steal a web domain name?
Gabriel_Pitt
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Or more to the point, steal it back. 
TL : DR: Website got poached, how do I poach it back if poacher's registration expires.
And what does 'Registrar Status: clientTransferProhibited' mean on the WhoIs lookup?
A little while back, the small company I work for changed it's name. However, due to the length of time we operated under the old one, and how prominent we were in our industry, a lot of our customers still remember or think about us as our old name. Unfortunately, some one decided that with the new name, we no longer needed to keep the old website, and let our registration expire, and it was almost immediately poached (whether by a competitor trying to make us look bad, or one of those domain-pounce douche companies, we don't know)
So a lot of older customers still try and look us up by our old website and are now greeted by a whole lot of cock. Whole lot of. Occasionally calls include laughing comments of, 'you guys have _really_ been expanding your fields of expertise,' and asking about if those are added benefits to our engineering services.
We have made no attempts to contact the new owners, or get the domain back (this isn't a big enough problem that we're willing to pay ransom for it), so my thought is that it's quite possible they themselves will not be on the ball with holding domain ownership, thinking that we don't care about it, and let it lapse, at which point I want to grab it back. I've never poached a domain before, so I don't exactly know how to do this. The WhoIs lookup has a 'acquire this domain' button, but I haven't clicked it, just in case, because I don't want the poachers to have any clue that there's interest in regaining ownership.
So a lot of older customers still try and look us up by our old website and are now greeted by a whole lot of cock. Whole lot of. Occasionally calls include laughing comments of, 'you guys have _really_ been expanding your fields of expertise,' and asking about if those are added benefits to our engineering services.
We have made no attempts to contact the new owners, or get the domain back (this isn't a big enough problem that we're willing to pay ransom for it), so my thought is that it's quite possible they themselves will not be on the ball with holding domain ownership, thinking that we don't care about it, and let it lapse, at which point I want to grab it back. I've never poached a domain before, so I don't exactly know how to do this. The WhoIs lookup has a 'acquire this domain' button, but I haven't clicked it, just in case, because I don't want the poachers to have any clue that there's interest in regaining ownership.
TL : DR: Website got poached, how do I poach it back if poacher's registration expires.
And what does 'Registrar Status: clientTransferProhibited' mean on the WhoIs lookup?
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Are you sure someone poached it and not just the registrars placeholder site or something.. I know when I let a site expire I just had to give a call to my registrar to get it back.
Other than that, most domain registrars offer similar domain sniping tools.
I'm thinking that a year or so down the road when their registration expires, if no action has been taken to get it back, it might not be worth their interest to keep registered, so are their sniping tools I can employ to nab it back? This is irksome, and less than ideal but it's not actually causing any sort of lasting harm (we hope - there could be a big puritanical demographic in the industry that we didn't know about, and still don't know about because they take one look at the old site and immediately blacklist us from all contact).
Seriously your tech department should have done a better job planning the website transition. i.e. own both old sites and new websites for a month where your old sites will have nothing but a link redirecting to your new websites.
FYI I'm curious to know what your old domain name is.
Then do the WHOIS lookup in it.
And maybe get lucky and do a tracert on the domain, then do a tracert on your competitors sites, and see if they lead to the same place.
That's how ya do it.
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Note that ARIN might redirect to RIPE if it's European, APNIC if it's Asia/Pacific, AFRINIC, etc. Just go to those sites and do the same sort of whois.
Also if you post the domain name, some forumer might take it upon themselves to pay the registration fee for the current owners for the next few years. Don't do it.
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Recommended reading:
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/03/how-to-snatch-an-expiring-domain
It's old, but still good info, and fairly accurate. Basically, the date on the WHOIS isn't exactly accurate, you have to wait around 75 days longer, and then you go into a phase of other people possibly trying to grab the domain at the same time as you if it's a particularly good one. I used Snapnames.com to successfully grab a domain after it expired - though I did have to go through auction with another guy who tried to grab it too.