Help! I bought a domain and ended up with a stranger's PayPal! And I can't give it back

Help! I bought a domain and ended up with a stranger's PayPal! And I can't give it back

Any Reg readers have a solution? The web payment giant doesn't care


A Register reader says that for months he has been dealing with unwanted emails and alerts because a domain he purchased is connected to someone else's PayPal account, and PayPal doesn't seem to care.


Aaron Sadler says the trouble began last year when he repurchased a domain he had previously owned and allowed to expire. After that initial expiry, someone nabbed the dot-net address, but then also let the domain expire, allowing Sadler to reacquire it from its registrar.


Unfortunately, there was a little something extra that came with the terrabithost.net domain: the previous owner had used it to register a PayPal account, and they were still using that account despite no longer having access to the email address. Rather, the emails were being forwarded to Sadler.


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