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Unsolicited Offer For My Personal Domain Name?

Posted by kdawson on 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

11 of 542 comments (clear)

  1. Turn the Screws on Their Thumbs by eldavojohn · · 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 plover · · 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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      John
    2. Re:Turn the Screws on Their Thumbs by canUbeleiveIT · · 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."

  2. dear slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · 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 · · 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 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wouldn't matter. If he gets married, it's the same thing only slower.

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  3. Re:Finally a use for the 'itsatrap' tag by sjf · · 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 !

  4. Re:The lawyers are not completely to blame. by antijava · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought that was vampires.

  5. Re:The lawyers are not completely to blame. by plover · · Score: 4, Funny

    Same thing.

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  6. Re:The lawyers are not completely to blame. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The only real difference is the stakes involved...

  7. Obligatory by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://xkcd.com/374/

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