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Hell.com Domain Name Up For Sale

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the site-to-feature-snowball-sales dept.

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.'"

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  1. Diamond.com could have easily gone for more by Tweekster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:Diamond.com could have easily gone for more by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      So...the people that buy hell.com should buy diamond.com and point it to themselves.

      Then DeBeers would have hell to pay!

      *drum fill*

      Thanks, I'm here all week!

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  2. Re:i remember when.... by Marc2k · · Score: 5, Funny

    Purchasing a lifetime @hell.com address seems like a poor life choice to me..

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  3. To the winner by Azathfeld · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good luck with the domain squatting suit against Lucifer himself.

    I mean, who do you think has all the lawyers?

  4. Re:i remember when.... by 8ball629 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, just get married ;).

  5. Re:so what's thier ip address? by bigattichouse · · Score: 5, Funny

    Silly.. hell is a class C with 255 layers:

    6.6.6.0 is the gateway to hell.

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  6. Re:i remember when.... by jahudabudy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hell - where the pints all have holes in the bottom, and the women don't!

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  7. Re:i remember when.... by shaneh0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's not free!

  8. Shocked! Alarmed! I will write an angry letter! by BeeBeard · · Score: 5, Funny

    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