a word of caution ...

[keys]

If you are selling a .uk domain, I advise you not to sign anything until you are happy to release the name (i.e. until you have received full and cleared payment)

This also applies to any paperwork that you might sign and send as a fax or photocopy.

 

[PaullasPaullas is verified member.]

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i dont sign anything until funds cleared into my bank, and i have transfered it from my bank to another account incase the cheque bounces weeks after.

 

[bb99]

If you are selling a .uk domain, I advise you not to sign anything until you are happy to release the name (i.e. until you have received full and cleared payment)

This also applies to any paperwork that you might sign and send as a fax or photocopy.

Wise words. Is this just a general warning, or have you been stung?

 

[robrob is verified member.]

Wise words. Is this just a general warning, or have you been stung?

If the latter, name and shame so everyone can avoid...

 

[keys]

I have probably sold more domains than anyone else in the UK market, and as yet no losses and nothing has gone wrong apart from the occasional lost transfer form. In one case I had to send a third transfer form and paperwork to a company on the Isle of Man.

Rather by chance I have come across something which concerns me and could be a storm brewing. As yet I think it is known only to a few and I intend to keep it that way, so I am not going post any details.

I have written to Nominet and they know exactly what I am talking about.

 

[PaullasPaullas is verified member.]

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but surely keys, if it affects all .co.uk catchers/owners shouldnt we all be aware of this ? instead of keeping everyone i the dark...

 

[bb99]

original post removed just in case anybody tried to use it to hijack/steal domain names!

 

[keys]

but surely keys, if it affects all .co.uk catchers/owners shouldnt we all be aware of this ? instead of keeping everyone i the dark...

If you follow my advice you should have not have any problems.

It would serve no useful purpose to explain. Remember the saying "curiosity killed the cat".

 

[.co.uk]

If you are selling a .uk domain, I advise you not to sign anything until you are happy to release the name (i.e. until you have received full and cleared payment)

This also applies to any paperwork that you might sign and send as a fax or photocopy.

I use sedo. They take 10%. :sad:
Do you know of a cheaper but still secure way to sell UK domains, Keys?

.co.uk
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[keys]

I believe that Sedo and Escrow systems are secure for handling domain transactions, but at a cost.

I have never used this company, but they were recommended by another forum user a while ago. Their basic charge seems to be 2.5%

http://www.auctionpix.co.uk/

 

[keys]

This is going slightly off-subject, but I found it doing a search on escrow services.

"In one case a CAB client from London sold his mobile phone through an Internet auction site. At the auction site’s recommendation the client used an escrow service. After sending the mobile phone to the buyer and collecting payment the client learned that the buyer had used a stolen credit card number. The escrow company then used bailiffs to recover the sales proceeds from the client. The client is now without a mobile phone and has had to both refund the money to the escrow service and pay bailiffs’ costs."

More examples can be found on the Citizens Advice Bureau website,
http://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/index/pressoffice/press_index/press-050311.htm

 

[.co.uk]

I believe that Sedo and Escrow systems are secure for handling domain transactions, but at a cost.

I have never used this company, but they were recommended by another forum user a while ago. Their basic charge seems to be 2.5%

http://www.auctionpix.co.uk/

Thanks, I'll have a look! :smile:

.co.uk
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