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Be careful making flip counteroffers like that, if you actually do care about the domains at all.

Offering to sell can be twisted into "extortion" in a UDRP proceeding if you're not careful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Domain-Name_Dispute-Re...

A fair warning. Wouldn't any engaged legal group understand that if I had registered the .com first, then a company was offering to sell me a .org, etc. after my purchase, that is more extortionist than me trying to recoup the registration fees of a domain name I no longer need?

Agree if I want to keep the domain, I'd be careful not to lead anyone on - scammer or otherwise.

I'm no URDP expert; I've been peripherally involved a couple times. By impression of the process is that, like most processes of this sort, outcomes can depend heavily on getting good representation. Even if you think something makes obvious sense.

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