Just wanted to post to thank you all for the very kind comments.
Will, I agree with your sentiments and I was seriously tempted to hang onto the domain name but I know from trying to sell domain names for seven years that such oppportunities arise very rarely and sometimes you just gotta take the money and run
Zehrila, I'm both happy and unhappy. Heartbroken to sell the domain name I struggled to acquire for years which is my surname and I wanted to build a major site around, but maybe I can wipe I away my tears with the notes...
Had to sign a chunky contract which means I can't say too much, but I got what I wanted and
thank you for all your positive remarks.
Now off to try to flog another four character .com beginning with 'a' which I just grabbed today, axoy.com

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