From my cold, dead hands
This morning I received an e-mail from someone calling themselves Verisoft LLC, offering $1000 to buy my drawingbusiness.com domain name. A quick Google search revealed that I am not the only one to have received such an offer:
I am interested in purchasing your domain name drawingbusiness.com. I can offer you $1000 for the name. You would be free to keep the current content and move it elsewhere on the web. Please let me know if you are interested.
I’m a little disappointed that I’ve only been offered $1000 (currently about £520), when others have been offered more. I’m also dubious of any offer made from someone who uses a Yahoo! e-mail account to conduct business. On the other hand, it’s nice to know my site is getting enough links to make the URL worth anything to anyone.
Needless to say, I’m not interested in selling my domain, and the offer to buy it has simply prompted me to pull my finger out and renew it for another 5 years. So cheers for that.