From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 5 11:13:08 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F49D106564A for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2012 11:13:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tal@whatexit.org) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3FCE8FC12 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2012 11:13:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lagv3 with SMTP id v3so2146163lag.13 for ; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:13:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=whatexit.org; s=google; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=QeTLYhbP/GUnC5CWcKji1OI96SpJGhgsTxoP96hubic=; b=BkbSzd7NGh21AhkqtcbHrsU/C3XHpW2CG9AoqOQGTwd6sic0OwCq1zb7V90F4CyXLD DnI5bLzWv/TNLS6ad0z2hi3NGipS8XsETPByc5y8Hs/ZKYgGWXIXv26IqhPINSS1IqZ1 HC0VILK7gNR0Hzp/0DtS92sDWvI+4RjnuYTBw= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=QeTLYhbP/GUnC5CWcKji1OI96SpJGhgsTxoP96hubic=; b=M32uJMag0D3IADsQa89KosDti6Jv26j9M1x0F6B7I9julU7td0d7ck5tHBtiyX65w+ amseO97k7voEOvJW7RV4SjKKQuj0KqPFQyVt2OgDp2kIlz/FzTJs6+dlfAlvyCos1i3d 07z6SsSZvddJK/vWC1aDimyQetcB9NLau5OH4VxzNRiDMZfzi1n5FIKV9tKCugEvuGWq nyh/o4URPQo28VCA3mGXOqiB+LohPdlLzqzeZdIyRQtdIsnK+RxCdOzsTv64676hdSnn JeKhYq68kXi+UWFnCsUTLftujkWUoSDn7X0wxwU5GgP3nep3McRKivwotmDfjlTu5OXj b9+g== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.152.132.132 with SMTP id ou4mr2489484lab.26.1333624386589; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:13:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.38.39 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Apr 2012 04:13:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <3416407202-176953988@intranet.com.mx> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 07:13:06 -0400 Message-ID: From: Tom Limoncelli To: William Palfreman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnQfdcx3qj/kEn7KCH3b+e4hrGxVInbStq8RS5Oq1WyKHAoEqdT1Xt1HxovPbDwLwr1JT0a Cc: Jorge Biquez , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Off Topic.Advice please. Domain selling. X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:13:08 -0000 I get emails list this all the time. Most of the time it turns out they are a scam or they don't actually have a buyer but want me to buy their service where they seek buyers for me. Either way, I'm not interested. I always reply: "I only consider serious offers and serious offers are more than $10,000". That always gets rid of the scammers/spammers. Here's why: Websites that do "valuations" of domains tell me my domains are all worth about $100-$200 for the .orgs and $200-$300 for the .coms. Changing my domain would cause me about $x,000 pain for y months (x and y are secret). When a company wants a domain and is serious the absolute minimum they offer is $10,000 (and the max I've seen is $100,000 (verified) or $1,000,000 (unverified)). I don't want to scare away a real offer but I also want to get rid of the spammers and scammers. Tom