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The current owner doesn’t want to sell because he doesn’t want to part ways with his current email address. Couldn’t they simply add a provision for this in a
by Ecco 4y ago
The current owner doesn’t want to sell because he doesn’t want to part ways with his current email address.
Couldn’t they simply add a provision for this in a deal? Like “we’ll own the domain but we will maintain a redirection for your previous email address to a newer address of your choice”?
Or the other way around “we’re buying ownership of certain DNS A records like “www” and “@“.
Has this ever been done?
- layer8 4y agoI wouldn’t do the former, because there’s a high risk it will still atop working at some point, and you don’t want your email being down for all the time it takes to get things resolved legally and technically (possibly having to start a legal fight). As for the latter, they will still want to use some email addresses on the domain and not want to rely on a 79-year old individual to manage it for them.
- kingcharles 4y agoI've seen several domain purchases where there was an agreement that the previous owner's email address be forwarded to him, e.g. bob@wormhole.com would forever redirect to his new address.
- RealStickman_ 4y agoIf I had a cool domain like that I'd also want to send mail with it, so personally I'd want to keep all current MX and TXT records relating to email intact.