Chris.C
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Ok so this is an unusual situation...
Basically a competitor of a major client of mine went into liquidation about 2 months ago (they spent the 6 months prior to that exhorting customers for $2.5M). The real shame is that this is the second time this guy has gone bankrupt in 5 years, taking people for millions.
Anyway, this competitor website is well designed and ranks well in Google to this day.

So we as a competitor naturally approached the liquidators to say we'd be willing to acquire some of this company's assets, particularly their domain and website, but it appears that the business owner very cunningly transferred the domain into a freshly registered business name that they have setup so they could restart their old scam.
What is the best way for the liquidator to reacquire this domain?
Obviously the website is worth nothing to us without that domain.
However the bankrupt company still holds a trademark for the business name which is the exact same name as the domain name...
So could the liquidator simply submit a dispute to AUDA to transfer ownership back to them? If so how long would that take?
Any advice is welcome.
Basically a competitor of a major client of mine went into liquidation about 2 months ago (they spent the 6 months prior to that exhorting customers for $2.5M). The real shame is that this is the second time this guy has gone bankrupt in 5 years, taking people for millions.
Anyway, this competitor website is well designed and ranks well in Google to this day.
So we as a competitor naturally approached the liquidators to say we'd be willing to acquire some of this company's assets, particularly their domain and website, but it appears that the business owner very cunningly transferred the domain into a freshly registered business name that they have setup so they could restart their old scam.
What is the best way for the liquidator to reacquire this domain?
Obviously the website is worth nothing to us without that domain.
However the bankrupt company still holds a trademark for the business name which is the exact same name as the domain name...
So could the liquidator simply submit a dispute to AUDA to transfer ownership back to them? If so how long would that take?
Any advice is welcome.