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Hell.com Domain Name Up For Sale
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Internet domain name Hell.com is going up for sale, with bids of over $1 million expected, the Wall Street Journal reports. From the article: 'Sex.com sold for about $12 million earlier this year and Diamond.com changed hands for $7.5 million. The big-money domain-name sales echo an earlier boom, when Business.com fetched $7.5 million in 1999. Today's live auction of 300 names, by Seevast Corp.'s Moniker unit, includes more than a handful it predicts will generate bids of more than $1 million, including Iran.com, Auction.com and Elections.com. Now someone who buys Hell.com "has the opportunity to redefine what hell means, at least on the Internet," says Monte Cahn, Moniker chief executive.'"
...hell.com used to be the weirdest site. strange stuff there and fun to search around. now it is a bit dull. ....what is going to happen to all of those who purchased lifetime @hell.com emails?
always mosh clockwise
it will just end up as a redirect to myspace.com
Monstar L
...for the Windows Vista launch.
MTW
They should have put up a page about the horrors of diamonds and how they are obtained.
DeBeers would have quickly wrote a MUCH larger check.
The phrase "more better" is acceptable English. suck it grammar Nazis
666.666.666.666 ?
(and yes I know it's not possible under base 16. but we are talking about the supernatural aren't we?)
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
Welcome to Hell on Earth 2006.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
So, we can just think of the new owvers as AOL twelve years later ...
The Independent: Reverend Spooner Arrested in Friar Tuck Incident - ISIHAC, Historical Headlines
Some political party will buy it and put their opponents all over it.
Anyone want to chip in and buy this? Just think of all the money we could make selling hell.com subdomains!
just to have the e-mail address satan@hell.com
(this is creepy, 'Sympathy for the devil' by the Rolling Stones happens to be playing on my winamp right now)
Then again, from what I've heard, myspace is becoming a strong competitor.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
The internet is filled with Murder, Sex and violence and Myspace to begin with.
Kinda hard to redefine isn't
perpetually dwelling in the -1 pits
Hell as defined on the Internet:
An all-Flash site.
You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia
Will we be able to buy a ferrari cake on this site?
We could all chip in and buy it, just to have it redirect to microsoft.com, but they'd probably just sell even more software from the publicity.
stuff |
It's aitcheedoublehockeysticks.com. Starting bid is.... one BILLION dollars! Mwahahaha ah *cough* *cough* *wheeze*, gotta lay off them smokes...
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Ten bucks says it's Golden Palace. They'll do anything for publicity.
All your hells are belong to us!
Why pay 1 million dollars for hell.com when you could spend a fraction of that researching proper google indexing or hiring someone to do it for you.
Sure there is a share of goth kids who sit around and rue their surroundings who get on the internet and type hell.com and killme.com and ihatemybrother.com but whatever... who cares about emo?
Good luck with the domain squatting suit against Lucifer himself.
I mean, who do you think has all the lawyers?
What the hell was hell.com it says a private parallel web? i've tried looking for a definition but couldn't find one.
... and that's where he'll probably end up anyway, so why not get an early start?
Either if you see it as hell.net or as hell.NET, it's just so much spookier than hell dot com.
"Trust me - I know what I'm doing."
- Sledge Hammer
has the opportunity to redefine what hell means, at least on the Internet
women?
"All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
...welcome our new Hell overlords!
No sig for now.
At least they only bought the lifetime version. The eternity subscription is a bitch.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
As for Hell.com, there's at least one little town that could make use of the domain.
As the owner of the world-famous leading branded HELLO.COM site, which is a world leader in friendly touchy-feely family photograph sharing, I must inform you that we find your site, "HELL.COM" is illegally infringing on our established trademark. Your site bears a confusingly-similar mark which could tarnish our reputation and dilute our market standing in the public mindshare.
You are hereby ordered to relinquish your domain registration and terminate all marketing which bears the infringing HELL.COM mark, or any other mark which closely or confusingly encroaches on our intellectual property.
As a token of good faith, we will reimburse you $15/year to cover your registration fee, and give you a coupon redeemable for FIVE JOYBUX at our HELLO.COM social site.
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Of course, I would expect this site to advertise "Optimized for Internet Explorer"...
Imagine what kind of cooling system you would need. You think a Slashdotting melts servers? Just wait. Then again, I never thought I'd see a useful 4-letter domain name again, so maybe it's actually cold there now. OK. didn't have time to read all the replies. Hope I'm not being redundant.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Seriously. hell.com isn't NEARLY as valuable as a business.com or sex.com. What's the real appeal? My guess is it'll fetch maybe $75k
boobies.com ;)
I would put up a website mocking AOL.
business.com, sales.com, hell.com, ...etc
These are novelties. In the age of google domain names are pointless.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Gee, I wonder, how much I could get for my domain... Maybe all those legions with their lives destroyed by write-only Perl code could bid some high $$ for it...
Robert
Bastard Operator From 193.219.28.162
...one's soul?
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
I have to say, I have no idea who owns Business.com, Diamond.com and Sex.com or what they do with them (although with the latter example I have a fairly good idea). But if I was looking for diamonds, diamond.com wouldn't be my first port of call - I'd be more likely to search, or go to a known brand name retailer online.
So unless somebody wants to brand their own business hell.com and spend mega-bucks promoting it, it all seems a bit pointless. After all, eBay does fine without being called auction.com; Google does fine without being called search.com. In fact, it could be argued, they do BETTER - decent, unique brand names stick in consumer's minds far better than relying on a recycled word.
I'm sure hell.com will sell for a fair bit - but it will only be effective as a one-off marketing ploy (hey! Look! So-and-so casino has bought hell.com), no long term value in it.
Is it really worth anything (or much)?
All the other domain names that have sold for millions have generally had some sort of business/commerce potential.
Diamonds.com - sell diamonds
Business.com - loads of things you can do with this
Auction.com - obvious...
Elections.com and Iran.com - can't really see much potential to make money from those (certainly not millions anyway).
Hell is other domains.
Funny , seeing the headline I thought the price might be YOUR IMMORTAL SOUL, cheques addressed to Beelzebub, but having read the article, $1m seems quite reasonable :)
When the posters fear their moderators, there is tyranny; when the moderators fears the posters, there is liberty.
Whoever buys hell.com should put a bunch of pictures of Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Foley and Congress all having a sex orgy on the senate floor with banners saying mission accomplished!
WSJ is behind the times. The Register scooped them by over 1/2 a decade. Anyway, I guess my point is that Hell.com has been for sale for a long time and no one is biting. The domains WSJ cites obviously have earning power. Hell.com is a black sheep. It has no obvious lucrative ties, unlike sex.com or business.com. Granted, Hell.com might make a nice porn domain, I can't think of much else it could do. I'd hate to see Hell.com turn into some crappy site after all the time I spent looking at the various "art-sites" they coordinated with (notably "having a hand in" the marriage of the Entropy8 chick and the guy who did Zuper to form Entropy8Zuper). Hell.com was a major reason I got into web design. So, I hope whoever buys it, if anyone, doesn't fuck it up.
There used to be no-such.com (or something like that) that had ties to Hell.com. I think the same guy owned them. I don't know what happened to that site, either.
You know, the litigious Christian cult leader who owns godhatesfags.com, smellthebrimstone.com, etc.
damaged by dogma
View the source, it's Java, not flash....
I may have to settle for heck.com.
One ring to bind them - should probably have more fiber and less rings in their diet.
I innocently went to the sex.com web site mentioned in the article and I was SHOCKED at what I found. I am almost embarrassed to tell you this, but I will because I know that you too will share my outrage: There were...scantily clad women prominently featured EVERYWHERE on the web site! Every time I clicked a link, more images of barely clothed females, cavorting around could be seen on my computer screen!
You read correctly. Apparently, the Inter Net is being appropriated by these rascals and is being used to transmit filthy images of unclothed women!
After making this alarming discovery, I spent the next 4 1/2 hours double-checking my findings by clicking the "Black", "Fetish", "Anal", and "Black Anal Fetish" links on the left portion of the computer screen. I found it necessary to do this repeatedly and vigorously until I finally grew tired, and I anticipate needing to continue on with the double-checking tomorrow.
I estimate that this double-checking process could take upwards of the next 7 months, after which I intend to write an angry letter to the Web Masters of Slash.dot.com and the Wall Street Journal. However, most of my angry missives will be directed to the people behind this horrible, deviant web site, and I will demand that they direct me to other, similar web sites so that I may carry on my investigation.
Yours in Christ,
Beebeard
Back in the day I remember perusing the various art sites affiliated with hell.com and I always found them intriguing and actually quite cutting edge design / webtech wise... yes one can joke as to whats going to happen with hell.com now, but honestly I wish that more sites would focus on private parallel domains of odd strange art sites that are glimpses into odd strange realities. I always found the fact it was usually by invite only to see these things quite cool... just because its a cool thing on the web doesn't mean everyone gets a chance to see it. That and originally it wasn't based around money like everything else seems to be online these days.
What? MySpace is up for sale again?
Either that, or the main site for Windows Genuine Disadvantage.
"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." --Senator Carl Schurz (1872)
Sounds like a great domain to forward to whitehouse.gov. I mean "hell" because of who lives there and ".com" because its clearly a commercial enterprise today...
Come play Moral Decay!
... otherpeople.com
Hey look! Another article in the WSJ about Technology!
So how much does WSJ pay for this incessant shilling of Wall Street Journal articles submitted by the same submitter?
That's 13 articles in the last two months.
Maybe I can see hell.com having some value (a million bucks is absurd, but whatever). But Iran.com? What possible use could that have?
Of course, when the country's bombed out of existence, I guess the domain will be all that's left. Sigh...
That we could buy the domain name and redirect to myspace.com because I think we all agree that is "what hell means, at least on the Internet".
http://www.bubble2.com/
La vida no es una pastafrola.
... what about hell.no ?
Shouldn't that be a MUST for such a domain?
[Sigh, I am so old...]
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Jack Thompson?
PtPete
Someone asked me if jwz.org was for sale the other day, and I said "sure!" but they seemed to think that ten million was too high. They didn't even make a counter-offer, though; I probably would have gone as low as a million. What, don't people haggle any more?
What is the point of buying one of these high dollar domain names? Sure, sex.com is probably lucrative, but diamond.com? If I want to buy a diamond I'm going to go to a jewlery story website (or walmart) not diamond.com. There's no branding associated with it. It's not any better than any other name unless someone promotes it. Any jewler that wants to sell jewelry would be better off to spend the millions on a marketing campaign and get their domain associated with high quality gems.
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Spam would be out of control on that domain... Any mail server would most likely just melt as soon as it was powered on for that domain.
Every time a site wants my e-mail, and I don't want them to have it... I use goto@hell.com or a similar address.
Further reducing the value is the fact that I have never been to that web site, nor had any desire to.
Microsoft knows what Internet Hell really is - and they intend to sell it to you.
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
I really wanted to buy the domain, but didn't know how the hell I'd afford it :(
Hell.com sold their e-mail list to spammers. My only registered address with them, besides the @hell one, was a forwarding address of the form hell.com@ADomainIOwn.com -- and a couple years ago I started receiving all sorts of nasty spam to it (mostly questionably legal forms of porn). I contacted them and suggested maybe they had been compromised, but was greeted with denials and the response that they "don't even keep the e-mail list on a server". After this, I never had any dealings with them again. It's too bad they are likely to make out so much on this deal, what a bunch of crap that is.
That will be $11 dollars sir.
. htm
try perhaps http://www.corpse.org/issue_10/gallery/krej/index
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
http://www.hell.co.nz/ is a chain of Pizza places in New Zealand :-)
And yes, it's all in Flash...
thats like trying to sell 666.com, or jesus.com or some stupid shit. get a life.
It would be nice if they'd have made a nice link to Moniker's website, instead of making me google for it.
Oh, blatant plug - microwave.com could be yours, at the right time, for the right money.
Maybe Firefox should relocate to Hell.com
/ducks
They wouldn't be able to accommodate Iceweasel, though. That would cause it to freeze over.
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
At least not for the minimum of $2.3 million.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
hell.co.nz
I don't know if they have international expansion plans.
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