Bought expired domain originally from Google Apps, they won't let me sign up

by ffumarola on 1/10/2013, 4:37 AM with 4 comments

Any one have any success with getting in contact with Google?

I checked Domain Tools whois records and have the users contact info that originally registered the domain through Google Apps. But I don't want to use it unless absolutely necessary...

Does anyone know how to get Google to look into removing the account from the system so I can register the domain now that I own it?

Tried contacting to no avail.

  • by glimcat on 1/10/2013, 11:54 AM

    If you go here, you should be able to "reset" the admin account via the domain ownership verification process. This involves either uploading a file to the web server or altering its DNS records.

        https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/yourdomain.com/VerifyAdminAccountPasswordReset
    Replace the "yourdomain.com" part with the appropriate string.

  • by JoachimSchipper on 1/10/2013, 10:07 AM

    I don't know how to solve this, but I vaguely recall seeing the same problem mentioned on HN in the past. This suggest that you should just search for the problem instead of trying to find a contact at Google (good luck with that!)

  • by ffumarola on 1/10/2013, 4:40 AM

    Appreciate any help or contact info anyone can share. This is likely a weird edge case!