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How do i buy a registered domain name?

How do i contact owners and attempt to buy a domain name that is already registered but hasn't been used? OR Is there any legal ramification of registering a domain name that is extremely similar to an unused registered name? Thanks

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You can normally use various tools (Often the domain salesmen have them on the website) to find contact information. The main tool you want is called "whois" An example is at http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=yahoo&tld=com which gives you contacts for Yahoo. Once you have contact info, you can contact and negotiate. Legal raifications of similar? There are quite a few. If for example you registeres Yahho.com, and set up a site that looked like Yahoo, you would get a little interest. The actual legal implications would vary, but copyright and trademark infringements are the first steps, with the potential of fraud if you are trying to make money out of it.
Go to www.123-reg.co.uk, type in the name you want to register and see if it is available. Despite the fact that a name may be registered but unused doesnt mean to say the owner will let you have it, or it they will, it will be at an exorbitant price. I myself have my own domain name but in order to stop others registering anything similar I have bought up every conceivable format i.e. co.uk, org. net, i, me etc etc. It can sometimes be useful trying to register a name similar to one that is in use, especially if it is a popular one then you might get hits by mistake! For instance if you wanted www.goggle, which would mean you'd probably get lots of visitors in mistake for google, although most of them are taken up, if you go to the 123 site you will see that owners are willing to transfer them. People make a profession of buying up popular names for resale.
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