From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 4 18:35:26 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 57FCC106566B for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 18:35:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kp@sigsegv.be) Received: from mercury.codepro.be (mercury.codepro.be [IPv6:2001:4b98:dc0:51:216:3eff:feb7:3147]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCB1E8FC0C for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 18:35:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from adrastea.jupiter.sigsegv.be (adrastea.jupiter.sigsegv.be [IPv6:2001:6f8:1498:1::3]) by mercury.codepro.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97B7739B; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 20:35:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from thebe.jupiter.sigsegv.be (thebe.jupiter.sigsegv.be [172.16.1.5]) by adrastea.jupiter.sigsegv.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54AF91B34; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 20:34:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: by thebe.jupiter.sigsegv.be (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3E4101C9A9; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 20:34:52 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 20:34:52 +0200 From: Kristof Provost To: Jorge Biquez Message-ID: <20120404183447.GO9275@thebe.jupiter.sigsegv.be> References: <201204041806.q34I6f5K044386@krusty.intranet.com.mx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <201204041806.q34I6f5K044386@krusty.intranet.com.mx> X-PGP-Fingerprint: E114 D9EA 909E D469 8F57 17A5 7D15 91C6 9EFA F286 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: 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: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:35:26 -0000 On 2012-04-04 13:05:30 (-0500), Jorge Biquez wrote: > I was wondering if you can give me your advice on the following. > > A person that works on the following company: > > ----------------------- > SEDO > (sedo.com) > Manager regional - América Latina > Sedo GmbH :: Colonia :: Alemania > tel +49 221.34030.143 > ----------------------- > > Have you ever heard of them? > I've heard of them. I've even tried to buy a couple of domains through them. It didn't work out, but not because of anything they did, but because I refused to give large amounts of money to sleazy domain squatters. >From what little research I did at the time I *think* Sedo as such is reasonably trustworthy. > I feel that procedure is a total risk in our side > since maybe once with the control of the domain > their client won't pay them and of course if they > pay them even this company could not pay us. > I suspect the procedure is for you to hand over the domain to Sedo, and they hand it over to the final client once the payment is done. It's possible that the procedure could be different if the domain in question is very expensive, I wouldn't know. Regards, Kristof