I went through this myself. Ended up selling the domain for lots of money.
First thing to beware of is this: If it's a valuable domain a big company can "sue you to death" cheaper than they can buy it. So be reasonable. There are exceptions. With my domain I knew that they were going public and they needed the.com NOW. So I didn't worry about that because I knew they couldn't allow it to be tied up in court. Google them, see what they're up to. You might have some leverage.
Second thing to beware of: Offering to sell it to them can be construed as you trying to make a profit off of someone else's work/trademark/etc. This might not be true, but see #1 above. Better to say "everything is for sale, make an offer."
You can always make the sale conditional on them maintaining a forwarding of your email address. It's trivial. I'd still migrate away from it, but that relieves you of any hurry.
One more thing. If they owned the trademark BEFORE you owned the domain name, they have a good case to just take it from you. If they are trying to buy it they might not know that.
Good luck.
> Hard to imagine that viral DNA is 5% of our genome without having any impact
Maybe it's a good thing.
Maybe it's why we are immune to those. Or it helps us develop immunity to new viruses, which surely are based on these ancestors.
The deeper we delve, the more wonderous it is.
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I went through this myself. Ended up selling the domain for lots of money. First thing to beware of is this: If it's a valuable domain a big company can "sue you to death" cheaper than they can buy it. So be reasonable. There are exceptions. With my domain I knew that they were going public and they needed the .com NOW. So I didn't worry about that because I knew they couldn't allow it to be tied up in court. Google them, see what they're up to. You might have some leverage.
Second thing to beware of: Offering to sell it to them can be construed as you trying to make a profit off of someone else's work/trademark/etc. This might not be true, but see #1 above. Better to say "everything is for sale, make an offer."
You can always make the sale conditional on them maintaining a forwarding of your email address. It's trivial. I'd still migrate away from it, but that relieves you of any hurry.
One more thing. If they owned the trademark BEFORE you owned the domain name, they have a good case to just take it from you. If they are trying to buy it they might not know that.
Good luck.
Goo always gives things away free in exchange for you data. That's not a typo. I mean "you data."
> Hard to imagine that viral DNA is 5% of our genome without having any impact Maybe it's a good thing. Maybe it's why we are immune to those. Or it helps us develop immunity to new viruses, which surely are based on these ancestors. The deeper we delve, the more wonderous it is.