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I have been contacted via email by a company regarding a domain name i recently acquired. They contacted me, and i had no prior knowledge of their company. They are doing business as this name, under a european ccTLD. The name in question is a made up (word-smithed) word, not a generic word.
I replied to their email quickly and kindly and suggested we come to an arrangement to aviod UDRP (which they threatened). I suggested a few hundred dollars to cover my time with correspondence, the transfer, and the registration expense, etc.
They replied with an offer of little more than $10.
My question is this:
Since it is not even worth my time to bow to them for so little money, can I just go ahead and make them go through the additional expense of UDRP? Am I taking on any additional risk? If I lose UDRP, would I not just hand over the domain? I've never gone through UDRP before, so I don't really know what the costs and risks are for a respondent. I would 'represent' myself in this case since this is not a coveted domain.
Thanks for your thoughts.
I replied to their email quickly and kindly and suggested we come to an arrangement to aviod UDRP (which they threatened). I suggested a few hundred dollars to cover my time with correspondence, the transfer, and the registration expense, etc.
They replied with an offer of little more than $10.
My question is this:
Since it is not even worth my time to bow to them for so little money, can I just go ahead and make them go through the additional expense of UDRP? Am I taking on any additional risk? If I lose UDRP, would I not just hand over the domain? I've never gone through UDRP before, so I don't really know what the costs and risks are for a respondent. I would 'represent' myself in this case since this is not a coveted domain.
Thanks for your thoughts.