Warning re Domainlore seller "UKDomain"

philliph · Sep 18, 2019

Really a DNS check needs to be made to confirm ownership before a domains listed, a TXT record would do it.

Aaron Clifford · Sep 18, 2019

Likewise, no one regged on my site with those details.

JMI · Sep 18, 2019

Good luck with it, but I can't see how DRS is going to work on a private business transaction - that's nothing to do with Nom.

atlas · Sep 26, 2019

Just to update this thread:

I received the domain yesterday.

When this happened, I immediately started a DRS. That froze the domain and gave me the seller's real name and contact details. His name is Dan Koo or Daniel Koo and he uses a business address at Berkeley Square House, in Mayfair, London.

Someone else (thanks so much!) helped me verify that Dan Koo had been listed as owner of some of the other domains the same seller had listed for sale on DomainLore (prior to GDPR hiding this information). So I knew I had the right guy.

The seller agreed to settle the DRS with a transfer of the domain to me, and Nominet took care of the transfer.

I understand that the seller has completed all domain transfers of the domains he sold on DomainLore, so everyone has been made whole.

It seems the seller signed up on DomainLore with a fake name, anonymous IP address, and a throw-away mobile number that was turned off right away.

Thank you so much to everyone for their help, suggestions, and support! Many people helped me with this and I greatly appreciate it.

RobM · Sep 26, 2019

*groan* this guy has an outstanding invoice with me for 6 days... I guess that's going to have to be written off.
Thanks for letting us know.

RobM · Sep 26, 2019

No it's a different thing. He won two auctions on my site and refused to settle or acknowledge payment even though logs show him logging in every day. He didn't get the domains - I am just left with 2 domains and a banned member. I hope nobody deals with him in the future. Another idiot destroys his reputation for the sake of a few pounds. Maybe admin should have a section for deadbeats so everyone in the industry knows who not to deal with.