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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="white-space:normal"><p dir="auto">You might not need "public" whois history. If your friend has been the owner the whole time, then he should be able to ask for historical records from any / all registrars that have been involved.</p>
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<p dir="auto">On 22 Aug 2019, at 13:04, Dédé Wilson via Hidden-discuss wrote:</p>
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<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><div id="1312E269-7792-4E01-8BBC-36FD0AF48408"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thank you Sam. He has been doing business for 20 years with the business name. The woman has only been on the scene for about 3 years. We are getting documents together.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anyone who has paid access to the WHOIS History, I would appreciate the help</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dédé<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 22, 2019, at 1:03 PM, Sam McClellan <<a href="mailto:sam@itabix.com" class="">sam@itabix.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
  
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    <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="">Typically in a case like
      this, you need to have proof of ownership or the domain name needs
      to have a history of pointing to the website of an established
      business that had ownership. The fact that they shared a business
      and there was no written agreement on the domain ownership makes
      it very messy. I'm not a lawyer but it sounds like they need to
      get a lawyer. <br class="">
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      Sam<br class="">
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      Itabix, Inc<br class="">
      <i class="">One place for all things Web</i><br class="">
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      Main - 413.587.4600<br class="">
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/22/2019 11:55 AM, Dédé Wilson via
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      No, it did not lapse. A business associate at the time who had
      access to everything (emails, PINs, etc.) changed everything over
      to herself without his approval.
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      <div class="">I’ve been on the phone with Google fraud, crawled
        all over ICANN and Whois…BUT I do not have a $99 membership to
        the section you linked…anyone want to help who is a member?<br class="">
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        <div class="">Dédé<br class="">
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              <div class="">On Aug 22, 2019, at 11:47 AM, Alan Fleming
                <<a href="mailto:alanfleming9826@gmail.com" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">alanfleming9826@gmail.com</a>>
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                <div dir="ltr" class="">Did the original owner allow the
                  registration to lapse? It is not uncommon to lose a
                  domain, even <a href="http://google.com/" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">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 class="">
                  <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/this-guy-bought-googlecom-from-google-for-one-minute-2015-9" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.businessinsider.com/this-guy-bought-googlecom-from-google-for-one-minute-2015-9</a><br class="">
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                  But there are tools that look for the 'Who Is' history
                  of a domain:
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                    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>
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                  <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" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net</a>>
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                    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 class="">
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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 class="">
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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 class="">
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                    Any help much appreciated<br class="">
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                    Dédé<br class="">
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