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Submission + - Unsolicited offer for my personal domain name 2

Submitted by Batzerto on Tuesday September 02, 2008 @01:42AM

Batzerto writes: Last Friday I received an unsolicited email offer for my domain. The message goes like this:
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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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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.

Comment Re:It's like divorce (Score 1, Redundant) 616

by pogga on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @12:57PM (#23841301) Attached to: $50 to Get XP On a New Dell

Expensive??? Here in Ireland, we have to pay Dell E135 (about $209) to downgrade to XP from Vista!!!

$50 to Get XP On a New Dell 616

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @12:00PM from the paying-more-for-less dept.

CWmike writes "Dell will charge customers up to $50 for factory-installed Windows XP on some PCs after Wednesday, according to the company's Web site. Buyers of the low-priced Vostro line of desktops and notebooks will pay $20 to $50 more for Windows XP Professional installed as a 'downgrade' from Windows Vista Business or Vista Ultimate than they would for Vista only."

IP Traffic To 'Double' Every Two Years 128

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @09:18AM from the toil-and-trouble dept.

Stony Stevenson writes "Web traffic volumes will almost double every two years from 2007 to 2012, driven by video and web 2.0 applications, according to a report from Cisco Systems. Cisco's Visual Networking Index (PDF) predicts that visual networking will account for 90 percent of the traffic coursing through the world's IP networks by 2012. The upward trend is not only driven by consumer demand for YouTube clips and IPTV, according to the report, as business use of video conferencing will grow at 35 percent CAGR over the same period." I left the apostrophes around the word "double" in the title because the linked site has them, but for the life of me I can't figure out why.

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