Unsolicited Offer For My Personal Domain Name? 542
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
Turn the Screws on Their Thumbs (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Finally a use for the 'itsatrap' tag (Score:3, Funny)
dear slashdot (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?
Re:dear slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Re:www.zerba.com (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:Turn the Screws on Their Thumbs (Score:3, 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
Re:Finally a use for the 'itsatrap' tag (Score:3, 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.
Re:Mod parent up! (Score:3, Funny)
But, she says she's pretty. Why would she lie?
Re:www.zerba.com (Score:1, Funny)
I dont think ive ever seen a more fitting username on slashdot.
Re:Finally a use for the 'itsatrap' tag (Score:5, 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. (Score:4, Funny)
I thought that was vampires.
Re:The lawyers are not completely to blame. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Turn the Screws on Their Thumbs (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The lawyers are not completely to blame. (Score:5, Funny)
The only real difference is the stakes involved...
Re:dear slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
http://xkcd.com/374/ [xkcd.com]
Re:Turn the Screws on Their Thumbs (Score:2, Funny)
hrmmm... a Japanese-Jew--now there's a mixed ethnicity you don't see everyday.
Re:Turn the Screws on Their Thumbs (Score:3, Funny)
You are my hero!! (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:Turn the Screws on Their Thumbs (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 :)
Re:Turn the Screws on Their Thumbs (Score:4, 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."
Re:Turn the Screws on Their Thumbs (Score:1, Funny)
Re:This happened to me (Score:2, Funny)
I will send you a cheque for $5000! (Score:2, Funny)
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-