And thanks, Dan. Much love to DocumentCloud for making the OCR of those PDFs super easy.
One thing that I do do is to very very carefully choose my words and analyze and interpret the words of others to divine meaning and hidden meaning. [1]
As such I simply don't believe that Jobs just fired these emails off I can almost assure you that as much effort went into this as goes into writing a Presidential speech or a chapter in a novel or a scene in a movie.
I do that, it works for me quite well, so I can't believe that at this level it isn't being done and I am somehow unique.
While it's entirely possible that Jobs wrote this on the fly more than likely it was a much thought out or even team effort where every thing was discussed and considered or Jobs perseverated.
I did like the format and you should definitely do more of this.
[1] A small example is this statement "Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t see any other alternatives. Do you?"
The addition of the "do you?" and the "Maybe "I'm" is critical in that sentence. Without both the emotion on the part of the recipient is much different and would be more negative and consequently less likely to come to an agreement.
For most of us, I'm sure writing such an email would take the kind of effort and consideration you describe. (It would probably take me a week.)
But I wouldn't be surprised if Jobs spent so much of his time negotiating and was so talented at it that he could pretty much just dash something like that off -- with every detail right.
In any case, the site has had $0.00 in revenue to date. I don't think protecting variations on the domain name is my biggest problem :-)
No hard and fast rule where you stop. In general the traffic counts more than the revenue (other than you need money to do the variations). The more people typing in the more people likely to typo. Other thing is not even typos it's visually what somebody sees and then types. For example for some reason my brain thinks "boss" so I am likely to type that. That's just me. Personally I like "bountyboss" as well for some reason. It rolls off your tongue (and that's important btw.)
I point out simply because you don't want to wait until it's to late (and of course I have no idea where you are at in this project so the advice could also apply to someone with more traction! Good luck it looks nice.).