Good idea - but extend. Try several domains you don't care about. Offer a fifth of the price.
Not from the same phone of email account.

Mention that this is your fifth choice and that the others were too expensive. Don't detail how much. Let them make an offer - counter offer low - negotiate. Be prepared to walk away. Have a real alternative ready - it helps your mindset.

I've been waiting to ask, what ever happened to http://kerneltrap.org/ ?
No activity since September.

What about some highly publicised antitrust countersuit.

Type of behaviour caught.. http://www.out-law.com/page-5811
"tying (i.e. stipulating that a buyer wishing to purchase one product must also purchase all or some of his requirements for a second product)."

Responding to my own post... Wow. My first troll rating. Sorry it came across like that. Its a personal experience from travelling north-west India in 2000, a reasonably large town - perhaps Ahmadabad. My mate's girlfriend had diarrhea and was in tears that it wasn't possible to walk from the entry to the toilet at the other side of the bathroom.

I didn't know how else to convey the image of it. Speaking to the locals, its a common occurance.

India was a great source of bizarre travel experiences - like our bus driver changing a flat tyre while parked on a hill, with a rock placed under the wheel on the up-hill side of the wheel - doh!

I haven't seen a river of shit, but I have seen a public bathroom at a bus station with turds all over the floor, and I mean ALL OVER.

Picture you local bus station bathroom. Draw a grid of 10cm squares. Start at the far end and lay a turd on every gridpoint. Awful! As I understand it, that is standard practice there.

Additionally, comparing cost of energy lost in wiring per year...

365 days * 24 hours = 8760 hours per year.
Price of energy at $0.10/kWh.
0.845kW * 8760hours * 0.10 = $ 740 per year for 10A
3.300kW * 8760hours * 0.10 = $2890 per year for 50A

So for a large data centre its not about the ongoing cost of power losses in the wiring, its more the installation cost and minimising transformer power losses.

Substitute V = A * R into W = V * A to get equivalently:

W = A^2 * R
or:
W = V / R^2

This is the power lost as heat in the wiring. You can see that losses increase with the square of current, but only linearly with voltage. Its about losses in long wiring runs at 48VDC. Compare typical household 10A at 240VAC with 50A at 48VDC for 1km of wiring in a data centre. 10A requires 14AWG wiring which is 8.450 ohm/km with conductor area of 2.08mm2. 50A requires 6AWG wire which is 1.320 ohm/km with conductor area of 13.30mm2.

10A Wiring Power Loss = 10^2 * 8.45 = 845W
50A Wiring Power Loss = 50^2 * 1.32 = 3300W
Ratio 3300/845 = 3.9

However, economic cost of install also needs to be considered. Ratio of conductor area:
13.3 / 2.08 = 6.4 times copper for 48VDC system, hence 6.4 times more expensive in materials to install.
Add to this the significant additional labour labour of working with larger, heavier and stiffer cable.

By the law of the captain who'll toss you overboard if you annoy him.

The law of the high seas, me matey, aarrghhh.

Thats not insightful - its completely wrong about human nature. Not getting a converter box NOW doesn't hurt them NOW - ergo the lazy don't notice / don't care. Its human nature to put up with things until a breaking point is reached and then they go berserk. They will only react once their RIGHT to TV is taken away.

GP is correct - but how serious and how long it lasts remains to be seen.