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."

Comments

Sex Sells

[Joebert]

I've heard the saying "Sex Sells" but this is ridiculous.

$14 million

[yobjob]

Definitely goes in my great big "wish I thought of it first" list.

expensive sex.

[Random_Goblin]

$14, million!

is that the most money paid for sex ever?

Re:expensive sex.

[rxmd]

$14, million! is that the most money paid for sex ever?

It's like coitus interruptus for geeks, you pay $14 million for sex and all you get is a domain name.

Is it really worth it?

[broothal]

I wonder how many of these sites they could get for $14 million

Too easy

[Billosaur]

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.

Business.com went for pretty much the same price..

[gd23ka]

.. a few years ago. I wish I had registered shit,com, it wouldn't be worth crap today :-)

Wikipedia article

[SecState]

There's some background on the domain name here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex.com

just wait

[circletimessquare]

as soon as they open up the *.sex domain, i'm buying

com.sex

muahahahahaha!

The headline should've been:

[yellowstuff]

Sex.com changes hands.

pr0n.xxx

[Quiet_Desperation]

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.

Re:pr0n.xxx

[sfjoe]

That solution will neither help people find porn nor stop the christians from whining about it. The problem isn't about segregating porn, but determinig what porn is. Are 18th century impressionist nudes porn? What about Playboy? Is graphical information about vaginal yeast infections porn? If we set up a system where all "porn" goes in the .xxx domain, then someone has to decide what is and is not required to go there. That "someone" is likely to be a Republican so that means all sex education material and anything relating to birth control or LGBT issues will be classified as porn and forced into the ghetto.