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by geofft 3397 days ago
Registrants are required to have a working contact address and reply to, at least, communications from their own registrar in a timely fashion. They don't have to reply to everyone from the general public, but if you got a bounce, that's a good sign the email address is legit dead.

You can file a complaint at

https://forms.icann.org/en/resources/compliance/complaints/w...

and ICANN will follow up with the registrar, who will follow up with the registrant or cancel the registration. I'm pretty sure this is exactly the intended use: a domain squatter can't register a name and disappear completely.