Unsolicited Offer For My Personal Domain Name?

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Unsolicited Offer For My Personal Domain Name?

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 2, 2008 @08:23AM from the treading-carefully dept.

Batzerto writes "Last Friday I received an unsolicited email offer for my domain — click the link below for the message. Their company name matches my domain, but with a country-specific top level domain (.NL in this case). They do seem to be legitimately using the domain in their country. As for my usage, the domain is my last name(.COM) and I'm only really using it for email. I'm not really that attached to it other than the hassle of changing email addresses. There are other flavors of the domain available (.US for example) that would suit my purposes just fine. So, Slashdot veterans, I ask you, what should I do? I'm leery of making an offer and falling into someone's legal trap. I wouldn't mind getting a chunk of cash out of the deal though."

From: ---
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 4:56 AM
To: ---
Subject: sell your domain ?

Dear Sir,

For my company I need the domain --- .
Is it possible to sell your domain to me?

Best Regards
N. de Robles

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Turn the Screws on Their Thumbs by eldavojohn · 2008-09-02 08:24 · Score: 5, Funny

This is capitalism.

Google bomb your url with their company name by creating a Slashdot user account with their name and submit thousands of stories each week with your url in the homepage. You can also drop the company's name with an href to your url in CNN comments and on comments for popular blogs to get your pagerank up.

Then inform them that your Search Engine Optimization Chief just caused your URL to be at the top of Google's result list.

If they fail to triple their offer, begin redirecting to goatse. You should see them quadruple their offer then. It's called hardball.

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1. Re:Turn the Screws on Their Thumbs by zappepcs · 2008-09-02 08:47 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Exactly... when I think of such problems I always imagine a bespectacled political activist with messed up hair, staring intently at the screen of his computer. As the camera pans around to see what is on the screen you see him trying to register his name as a domain ....
  www.asshole.com
  
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2. Re:Turn the Screws on Their Thumbs by plover · 2008-09-02 09:30 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Screw that. Zerba.nl is nothing but flash. Do the web a favor and never sell to them.
  
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3. Re:Turn the Screws on Their Thumbs by lysergic.acid · 2008-09-02 09:59 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  ... named after its founder and current president, Mr. Uzi Nissan ...
  hrmmm... a Japanese-Jew--now there's a mixed ethnicity you don't see everyday.
4. Re:Turn the Screws on Their Thumbs by Homr+Zodyssey · 2008-09-02 10:00 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Really? The Indiana Canine Assistant & Adolescent Network did all that to your company? You should have taken your dispute to ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) instead...
5. Re:Turn the Screws on Their Thumbs by somersault · 2008-09-02 11:05 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Jeebus. Never hit 'Submit' until you know you have a handle on the situation! If you don't read all the necessary information properly and then mouth off at someone for being an asshat, you'll actually end up making yourself look silly. I almost did it earlier :)
  
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  which is totally what she said
6. Re:Turn the Screws on Their Thumbs by canUbeleiveIT · 2008-09-02 12:26 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Jeebus. Never hit 'Submit' until you know you have a handle on the situation! If you don't read all the necessary information properly and then mouth off at someone for being an asshat, you'll actually end up making yourself look silly. I almost did it earlier :)
  The part that's cracking me up is that he was modded "insightful."
7. Re:Turn the Screws on Their Thumbs by Anonymous Coward · 2008-09-02 13:57 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  No, your tutorial on how to allow others to pop your ass-cherry with a strap-on dildo was not available at the time
Re:Finally a use for the 'itsatrap' tag by CogDissident · 2008-09-02 08:31 · Score: 2, Funny

Isn't it illegal to trick someone into doing something illegal?
dear slashdot by Anonymous Coward · 2008-09-02 08:32 · Score: 5, Funny

A lonely girl has sent me an email seeking a relationship. I am a man and this sounds good. Should I seek to get into a relationship with this unknown but self admitted pretty girl?
1. Re:dear slashdot by Anonymous Coward · 2008-09-02 08:35 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  See if you can trust her first. Send her all your bank account info, and see what happens.
2. Re:dear slashdot by plover · 2008-09-02 09:51 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Wouldn't matter. If he gets married, it's the same thing only slower.
  
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Re:www.zerba.com by theblondebrunette · 2008-09-02 08:41 · Score: 1, Funny

zerba.nl is a shop for women's and men's shoes and such.. I don't see how it's related to kdawson, the article poster..
dawson.com is a construction company.. while dawson.nl while taken, has no web page, at least not at www.dawson.nl).
Careful with construction companies.. they work with lots of cement :)
Re:Finally a use for the 'itsatrap' tag by swillden · 2008-09-02 08:48 · Score: 2, Funny

I saw this in several comments already. Think, people, think ! :-) How the f*ck can be considered a domain name squatter if the domain carries his own name ??
That's what I tried to tell the judge when he took away my son's domain name. I mean if it's your NAME don't you have some right to it?
On an unrelated note, my son's name is mircosoft.

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Re:Mod parent up! by Cro+Magnon · 2008-09-02 09:11 · Score: 2, Funny

But, she says she's pretty. Why would she lie?

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Re:www.zerba.com by Bad+Ad · 2008-09-02 09:13 · Score: 1, Funny

I dont think ive ever seen a more fitting username on slashdot.
Re:Finally a use for the 'itsatrap' tag by sjf · 2008-09-02 09:15 · Score: 4, Funny

This is the internet. If you're not browsing with your credibility threshold set to "999,999/1,000,000 offers are scams," then I've got some little blue pills I'd like to sell you - I'm the manager of an implausibly sounding bank in Nigeria, and if you'd just pay some advance fees, I can increase your bust size while you make money at home !
Re:The lawyers are not completely to blame. by antijava · 2008-09-02 09:24 · Score: 4, Funny

I thought that was vampires.
Re:The lawyers are not completely to blame. by plover · 2008-09-02 09:26 · Score: 4, Funny

Same thing.

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Re:The lawyers are not completely to blame. by Anonymous Coward · 2008-09-02 09:35 · Score: 5, Funny

The only real difference is the stakes involved...
Obligatory by SanityInAnarchy · 2008-09-02 09:52 · Score: 4, Funny

http://xkcd.com/374/

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You are my hero!! by Anonymous Coward · 2008-09-02 10:32 · Score: 1, Funny

It has been six months, probably longer, that I have seen "LOSE" spelled correctly on the web, in a forum or in a news feed.
Thank you, thank you!!
Re:This happened to me by WesIey+Snipes · 2008-09-02 14:02 · Score: 2, Funny

Of course I did.
I will send you a cheque for $5000! by Aaron+Aardwolf · 2008-09-02 16:06 · Score: 2, Funny

Don't sell your name to him!!

I have always wanted this domain name, and am willing to pay MANY DOLLARS for it!

Please just send me your name and address, and I will send you a cheque for US$5000!

I want your domain-name desperately!

Just email your postal address to
mailto:PrinceBonobo@hootmail.com
or write me:
His highness, Prince Bonobo,
Box 419, Central P.O.,
Tinubu Square,
Lagos, Nigeria

I guarantee you many great rewards!

per my North American solicitor-

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