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I recently wanted to see if the owner of a domain name was possibly interested in selling it to me. I don't speak German, so I had to use Google Translate to compose the email. She responded in German, and Google Translate provided a good-enough translation to know that she's not interested. However the translation they provided looks weird. Can someone clarify what her first sentence means?

German:

die Domain gebe ich mit Sicherheit nicht her ... von daher keinerlei Interesse.

Here's what Google Translate provides:

I give the domain certainly not her ... therefore of no interest.

Can someone give a better translation of the first half?

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"I will definitely not give away the domain, therefore I am not interested."

EDIT: "her geben" ("ich gebe die domain her") does not necessarily imply the involvement of money transfer or any other form of payment, but in this context it does.

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Thanks for the clarification! – loneboat Dec 7 '12 at 14:42

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