Sex.com Domain Sold for $13 million

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I wish I was around when domains were first being sold, could have picked it up cheap and made a massive profit

Your actually being serious? Somebody must be this rich to get that domain name, lol.

Watch it be Ron Jeremy or Peter North.

Maybe that domain name is worth so much because it's the one most likely to get the most google hits. Sex is one word that pretty much everyone googles.

Think of it like this: no one would put that money down for a domain if they weren't sure they would get a profit from it, and considering how big the porn industry is, they're likely to double their money very quickly.

The funny thing is, sex.com has had a number of owners over the years since the mid 1990s, yet nobody seems to be able to make a profit off it, since it keeps getting resold. I remember when that domain was a porn site back around 2000, and then I heard about it being sold, and it's been sold several more times in the past 10 years. When was the last time you heard of xxx.com being sold? Funny trivia: when Paypal first started out, during the dot.com boom, they were located at x.com. Apparently they bought x.com from some domain seller, and tried to run a site off it. That didn't last very long, before it became paypal.com. If anybody's interested, s.com will likely be up for sale soon, since the Sacramento ski and snowboard shop that owned it went out of business.

Interesting. Either way, though, they'll make money, whether it's from selling or running a site.

One letter domains are worth a fortune, aren't they? A lot of big companies buy one or two letter domains just to show off, I think. For example, the Financial Times is at ft.com.

One word domains (especially short and to the point ones) Are worth a killer. Especially Sex related ones.