<div dir="ltr">Did the original owner allow the registration to lapse? It is not uncommon to lose a domain, even <a href="http://google.com">google.com</a> was lost in /2015 and someone noticed, registered it, and got paid from google to get it back, all within a matter of minutes:<br><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/this-guy-bought-googlecom-from-google-for-one-minute-2015-9">https://www.businessinsider.com/this-guy-bought-googlecom-from-google-for-one-minute-2015-9</a><br><br>But there are tools that look for the 'Who Is' history of a domain:<div><a href="http://research.domaintools.com/research/whois-history/">http://research.domaintools.com/research/whois-history/</a><br><br>Hopefully the original owner didnt use privacy settings that would hide their info from a who is lookup, but otherwise this should be able to help in determining when ownership changed.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 11:46 AM Dédé Wilson via Hidden-discuss <<a href="mailto:hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net">hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi All, I am trying to help someone who originally established a URL in 2005. He was doing business with a partner for the last several years and they have now broken up their business arrangement (all very informal). He has just realized that over the last few months she has transferred his 2 domains to her own ownership via Google and he is locked out of his site and is no longer the “owner” on paper, as it were.<br>
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I spoke with Google this morning and understand that they have a fraud process, but I was hoping someone with experience might chat with me about things he can do.<br>
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One thing I was hoping to find was a historical record of the ownership of the URL, but I have not been successful with that. And that might not even mean anything anyway…:(<br>
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Any help much appreciated<br>
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Dédé<br>
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