Finding the perfect domain name can be one of the greatest challenges you’ll have in building your digital presence. If the domain name you want is taken but not offered as a premium domain for purchase through the hover.com website, you may still have a chance to obtain the domain.
Note: You cannot buy a domain name permanently. Domain name registration is done on a term basis through the domain renewal process.
DomainAgents
Hover has partnered with DomainAgents to help you acquire domain names that are owned by others, but that might be for sale.
With DomainAgents help, you can open a negotiation with the current owner of the domain. Your offer will be presented to the current owner, guaranteed.
The cost of this service is $19.95 which gives you one credit. If DomainAgents is unable to contact the owner, they will give you a DomainAgents credit, so you can make an offer on a different domain name if desired.
Using DomainAgents
- Navigate to hover.com and search for your desired domain.
- If there is an exact match to your search, you'll see the option to Make an offer, which will take you to the DomainAgents partner popup.
- Read the information presented, and if you'd like to continue select Learn more.
- Enter your offer followed by Place your offer. The offer must be a minimum of $199 USD.
Once the domain owner creates an account on DomainAgents, they can either engage in negotiations or accept or decline the offer.
Sedo
Hover has partnered with Sedo, a leading domain name marketplace to help you find the perfect domain name. Sedo will help open communication with the current owner of the domain using a bidding process. When you place a bid, the seller decides if they would like to negotiate with you. If both parties can agree on a price, Sedo will complete the sale.
Using Sedo
- Navigate to hover.com and search for your desired domain.
- If there is an exact match to your search, you'll see the option to Make an offer, which will take you to the Sedo partner popup.
- Read the information presented, and if you'd like to continue select Learn more.
- Enter your offer followed by Make offer.
Domain back-ordering
While Hover does not offer the back-ordering of domains, some registrars will offer this service. Backordering a domain entails paying a registrar to grab a domain if it ever expires and offer it to you. In reality, they rarely, if ever, result in you getting the domain so they should be used with caution.
Contacting a domain owner
You may be able to send an email to the current registrant of a domain to see if they are interested in entertaining offers.
While we are fully committed to protecting our customer's privacy, we also recognize that it may be beneficial for a third party to be able to contact them. To allow this contact without exposing their personal data, we have created our WHOIS Contactability service.
- You can find the Contactability form link by visiting a public WHOIS lookup and searching for the domain name.
- The lookup results will include the Registrant email field that has a URL starting with https://tieredaccess.com/contact/ followed by a long string of letters and numbers.
Copy and paste this URL into a new browser window. - When navigating to this URL, you will find a time-sensitive form that asks for your contact information and a message to pass along to the domain owner.
Using this form automatically sends a copy to you as well. You can keep this email as a reference of what was sent and when.
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