can't really look it up quickly since it doesn't seem like there was systems in the email address...but probably did email them since I went through the NACHA list of ebpp providers, which should be fairly complete.
Anyways, the final price ended up at $10K, which is pretty close to what I wanted
The company that I am referring to isn't on the Nacha list, I just checked. I found them while doing a trademark search on your domain.
When selling a name, doing a trademark search is obviously important. You don't want to pitch someone with a federal trademark registration (this company hasn't received yet they just applied) or if you do pitch you have to be very careful or you will simply alert them and give them what they need to take the name from you in many cases.
With your name though it would have simply been an extra lead but a good lead (since the UDRP risk (in my opinion based on what I see on a quick check) is low and they value the term enough to trademark.)
Also, the first thing you also need to do when someone approaches you (before replying) is to check the uspto
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/index.jsp
to see if they have a trademark or if the person inquiring can be linked to the trademark. Can't stress this enough.
Question, when you contacted the 40 companies, how did you contact them? (Email, phone, postal)?