Sex.com site Sold for $14 Million

Sex.com has been sold for $14 million, according to a report in Xbiz.com, a web site for adult webmasters. The existing record for a domain sale is $7.5 million for business.com in 1999, at the height of the dot-com bubble. That sale continues to top the list of biggest domain resales of all time.

The buyer is said to be Escom LLC, which is now listed as the domain's owner in the WHOIS database. The name was previously owned by Gary Kremen, who regained the domain in 2004, which had been hijacked in 1995 via an unauthorized registrar transfer.

UPDATE: The sale price includes the adult web site business connected with the domain, and not just the domain alone. This will be an important point to some domain industry professionals, who differentiate between the sale of a domain-based business and a single name.

(Link via the Domaining Blog).

  Posted by RichM January 19, 2006 | Permalink | Newsletter

RELATED ENTRIES
Sex.com site Sold for $14 Million - Jan 19, 2006





Trackback Pings

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.njwebworks.com/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/miller60/mt333/mt-tb.cgi/61