Sex.com domain goes up for grabs

[Chuck]

Sex.com, one of the most valuable Internet domain names, will go up for auction next week after the previous owner defaulted on its debts.

Full Article on CNNMONEY,com

 

[katherine]

Can we pay in kind ?

 

[Soofi]

Can we pay in kind ?

kind? elaborate a little please lol

 

[silentg]

I wonder how much it would sell this time for. It made $15,000 per day at one point (when was this?).

 

[svfox]

It will sell for over 20 million.

steve
http://thelastsong.com

 

[A D]

I am sure even sex.com has lower income in today's domain environment.

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[Soofi]

forsure, I'm rooting for around $5-$10 mil.. cant even justify at that parked or monetized because ppc has gone down the drain!!

 

[Fearless]

"Kremen was the principal in the 2006 sale of the domain to Escom, although a news release at the time said he would remain as an adviser."

He must have been a bad adviser.

 

[snicksnack]

It took Kremen 12 years to get back his domain from Cohen. The way sex.com is currently monetized seems to me a waste of traffic.

 

[DomainsInc]

forsure, I'm rooting for around $5-$10 mil.. cant even justify at that parked or monetized because ppc has gone down the drain!!

especially adult parking is crap. it would be a waste to park this domain. the only way to really make money from it would be development.

 

[urlurl]

lets all try to guess and see who gets it right

Rules: the nearest to the final amount (without going over)

My Guess: $9,900,000

 

[tonyfloyd]

my guess.....$17,500,000

 

[gingeman]

13million. Anyone wanna pool funds?

 

[Stian]

My guess $20mill or more. Every newspaper in the world has written about this auction now, hell I wouldn't be surprised if it was picked up by some huge adult entertainment corp. only for the publicity.

 

[snicksnack]

okay, I hope the $1 which I can bring to the table will make a difference

 

[katherine]

I would not be surprised if the domain sells for much less than previously, like $5 mil.
That would be my guess.

I don't think there are a lot of investors that have the liquidity to make that kind of purchase. National A1 perhaps ?
Plus you need a serious business plan, adult is not a niche for everyone. Sure it's a nice trophy domain but that alone does not justify spending tens of millions.

 

[Gramma]

maybe the folks that own porn.com will buy it - my guess is 6,250,000

 

[Poohnix]

Nah... Just an LLL.com with one bad letter. :smilewinkgrin:

4K... :lol:

 

[EM @MAJ.com]

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"Kremen was the principal in the 2006 sale of the domain to Escom, although a news release at the time said he would remain as an adviser."

He must have been a bad adviser.

He accomplished what's needed for himself. He still got Match.com

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And my guess is $5M-$7M. Though If I have the money, I will not buy it simply because I don't like the business.

 

[ARMG]

It'll go for $22 Million.