Should you abandon that old domain name?

No! 

Here's why........because by re-registering old domain names someone else might be able to gain access to your (client) email, sensitive information, social media accounts and billing! Thus, providing ample opportunity for fraud.
 
Once the domain name is (re) registered, changing something called the Mx record enables control over incoming emails. Having ownership of the domain name means you have full control over the incoming email of the former business!

In some countries lists of expired domain names are freely available to all. 
​Having working access to an email address is powerful because by using password reset you will be able to gain access to whole range of services originally belonging to the former business and its staff.
 
These include:

• email and file storage – Office 365, G Suite; Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive
• social media accounts – LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram
• online shopping services – Amazon, eBay, PayPal
• etc.

 
Post M&A rationalisation often includes dropping older brand names and their associated domain names and this is quite common in law firm mergers. The risk here is that highly sensitive information (financial, personal, confidential and privileged information of the former owner) becomes accessible to bad actors with the associated risk to clients, reputation, and business.
 
Cyber expert Gabor Szathmari explains in great detail how he was able to gain access to an incredible volume of sensitive client information using abandoned domain names of law firms here.
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