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Domain Name Sold for Millions
Luke PiWalker writes "The infamous and controversial domain Sex.com has officially been sold to Boston-based Escom LLC for a reported $14 million. Sex.com owner Gary Kremen was unavailable for comment, but a source from Kremen's company, Grant Media, told XBiz that sales for the famous domain name will still be handled through Grant Media's San Francisco offices. While other terms of the acquisition remain unknown, XBiz was able to locate information on the deal through a company called InternetRealEstate.com, which shares office space in Boston with Domain Name Acquisition Group (DNAG), a company that was involved in a lawsuit surrounding the Sex.com domain in September."
I've heard the saying "Sex Sells" but this is ridiculous.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Definitely goes in my great big "wish I thought of it first" list.
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Are domain names really that valuable anymore? Given recent stories on the way that search engines are leaching value from web resources, doesn't the default action of yer average mom-and-dad browser involve typing a company name into google rather than typing an url into the address bar? Er - first post (both EVAR and on this article). Guess I was just that lucky :-)
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Sex.com has officially been sold to Boston-based Escom LLC for a reported $14 million.
Anagram 'Escom' and you get 'Comes' - now we know why they wanted it so bad.
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$14, million!
is that the most money paid for sex ever?
I wonder how many of these sites they could get for $14 million
There are a plethora of jokes to be made at this point... I'll refrain. It's just amazing how much money there is to be made in the domain name game. When you think about it, what is a domain name? On the technical level, it's just something plugged into DNS servers so people don't have to remember IPv4 codes. But on the media side of things, your domain name is an attribute, you're billboard on the information superhighway. And when you think about it, how smart were some people when they registered the more obvious domains back at the start? And now they're reaping the rewards. Sex.com was just too obvious to pass up, and now it's worth $14 million. That's easy money.
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.. a few years ago. I wish I had registered shit,com, it wouldn't be worth crap today :-)
There's some background on the domain name here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex.com
as soon as they open up the *.sex domain, i'm buying
com.sex
muahahahahaha!
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I hope they get their site up and running ASAP. I am desperate to find a supplier of those Viagra pills.
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...And there's no link to sex.com in the story? Good grief.
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There is an long article about sex.com in the current February issue of Playboy. I have not finished it yet, but it so far it is well written and interesting. There is also an interview with Al Franken that is more insightful than humorous. So pick-up the issue or check playboy.com, sometimes they have portions of articles there with no charge.
Sex.com changes hands.
I'm still suprised when the porn sites resist the .xxx domain. It seems to me it would put an end to the whining and moaning. Parents could just block *.xxx, and the porn companies could get on with their business and lay off a few of their legal staff. People could set up *.xxx only search engines. There's a world of possibilities here.