Andrew McGlashan via luv-talk wrote:
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Hi,
On 01/10/18 16:38, Rohan McLeod via luv-talk wrote:
Would be grateful for advice at the naive user level for help on how to proceed with following problem rhn@jeack.com.au is a functioning email address; If you can get a transfer of the domain name to yourself BEFORE it expires, then there are forms to fill in and a payment will be required to be aid for the transfer.
There are rules for .com.au domain names, you must fit in with those rules; that generally means that you need a business that can own it in most cases and hat business needs to have the right to own it.
If it's registration expires, then you may or may not be able to scoop it up; it is possible that once it expires, there will be someone else trying to nab it, so you'll have competition. Therefore, if you really want the email address, you will need to go through the transfer process.
Once you own the domain name, if you can get it, then you'll need to think about DNS and appropriate MX records as well as hosting for both.
if there is just one email address that is required and it isn't a high volume one, then I might host it for you on my server, but that would be only after you know that you can legally acquire ownership of the domain name -- that hurdle needs to be overcome first.
Without going through the process of acquiring the domain name, you will likely be on borrowed time, however the current "owner" may continue to renew it forever or a long period of time and it may just keep working as it is now. When they fail to renew the domain name, for whatever reason, then you will lose access to the email as it won't route correctly to a server handling the domain name. Similarly even if they keep the domain name active, they may remove the mx functionality at any time.
Andrew thanks for your practical advice; seems as Nic expressed in less detail : - the odds are not good and - even if possible, it may well be beyond my legal and financial abilities. Also thank you Trent for the aquisition history beyond iPrimus ; ie "..... following that indicate iPrimus was acquired by M2 in 2012, and M2 merged into Vocus in 2016." It seems as though the regulatory situation is that the succesive owners are continuing to keep "rhn@jeack.com.au" ; going, even though they have no actual legal obligation to do so. What I will do now is start to look around for a durable non-web email address ; that is obviously not tied to a particular ISP ...suggestions welcome! "Non-web" because: - I already have one with vfemail.net that is accessible with TOR (unlike gmail... etc) and; - I don't like the the browser interfaces to email for general communication, as they seem slow,clumsy and connection dependent regards Rohan McLeod