If one of my competitors let’s their domain name expire, can I purchase it and have it forward to my businesses website?
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If one of my competitors let’s their domain name expire, can I purchase it and have it forward to my businesses website?
One of my competitors web domain is due to expire in less than 2 weeks. I’m sure that they just haven’t been paying attention but if they don’t renew it in time, can I legally purchase the domain name myself and have the domain forward to my site?
Asked on February 22, 2012 under Business Law, Missouri
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
If one of your competitiors allows its domain name to expire where ownership of the name no longer belongs to anyone, then you can make an attempt to purchase the name and have either yourself or your entity own it as an asset. If you pay the necessary money for the name and its ownership is then transferred to you by the entity that is in charge of registration of domain names, you can do whatever you wish to do with it.
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