> Do not go through GoDaddy or Namecheap. A few years ago I was desperate to get the .com of a .com.au domain I had. The guy had his contact details in the Who

> Do not go through GoDaddy or Namecheap. A few years ago I was desperate to get the .com of a .com.au domain I had. The guy had his contact details in the Whois information, so I contacted him asking to buy it. I got no response. I relied a month or so after with a price to try and get his attention, no reply. A few months after this I decided to try the GoDaddy service to buy domains that are already owned (the domain I wanted was registered with GoDaddy). The initial fee was about $60. They made contact and got him to sell - for a price lower than I had offered via email: great! Maybe my experience was different to most, but I got the domain for less than I was willing to pay.