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Sex.com sells for 13 million

James

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interesting sale...But shows the market for adult domains is not in a real growth mode as it sold like 4 years ago for 12-14 million est.
 

WG2010

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I doubt I'll be changing from youporn or redtube any time soon :)

How do build a website based around this domain though? The best porn sites are niche specific these days. It will be very interesting to see what the new owners do with it.
 

snoopy

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interesting sale...But shows the market for adult domains is not in a real growth mode as it sold like 4 years ago for 12-14 million est.

That industry has had a huge downturn, so I think to get a similar price, that is a very good result for Sedo.
 

Billy01

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Jeff Gabriel will be relieved

It takes about $30,000 a day so that's not a bad result GFC also he'd be on 10% plus for the sale personally for the comm. I imagine its a happy day in the Sedo Boston office at this time.
 

Timmy

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If you've got $13m to pay for the domain, surely they can develop something half decent with the change.

It's sex.com for Christ's sake - they should cover every single base and make it the biggest freaking sex site on the planet covering every niche (hundreds), every platform including tube, free pr0n, educational, premium, hd, mobile, hook-ups, dvd's, 3D, last longer, extensions, products, cam.

Snoopdog, I don't agree that the 'year' or any 'market trends' really apply to that name - unless you're talking from a purely 'domaining' sense?

Internet usage continues to grow, and every year there's a new group of pubescent fiddlers coming online. While type-ins may not be what they were back in the boom days, I can't understand how anyone wouldn't get quick ROI with sex.com. The opportunities are definitely there to make the biggest spank bank of all time, without even considering the opportunities with social media.
 

DavidL

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.....and every year there's a new group of pubescent fiddlers coming online..... The opportunities are definitely there to make the biggest spank bank of all time....

Nicely put!

I think what Snoopy means is that the com market has had a huge downturn in the last few years. It's a good price IMO
 

Billy01

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You're right my amounts may be a little bit out, but not much

Its' doing $30k a day under receivership from the private equity firm that went bum up. I agree its prob way more but I also heard a whisper JG was hoping for anything about $7mill, as you would do when on 10% plus comm.
But yes great GFC bargain. $13mill it was a steal. Bet the private equity guys that lost it are saying Dam it dam it dam it ........
 

DavidL

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Its' doing $30k a day under receivership from the private equity firm that went bum up. I agree its prob way more but I also heard a whisper JG was hoping for anything about $7mill, as you would do when on 10% plus comm.
But yes great GFC bargain. $13mill it was a steal. Bet the private equity guys that lost it are saying Dam it dam it dam it ........

$30K a day? $11M pa? I can't see it. Is there any evidence of this?
 

Rhythm

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$30K a day? $11M pa? I can't see it. Is there any evidence of this?

Probably, but the weather is too good in Sydney to bother with finding out the latest details, maybe someone in Melbourne can do it.

This is from the link:

In the five years in between Cohen had made up to $500,000-per-month from advertising on the site.
 

snoopy

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If this name was making $11million per year the company wouldn't be defaulting on a $5million loan (was something around that figure).
 

James

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No way this domain makes 30k a day, I find it hard to believe it even makes 30k a month ...

Look at stats on compete and Alexa I know its a rubbish guide but this domain until 1+ weeks ago was like 100k+ alexa, type in traffic would be great but SEO value is currently crap, no ranks for any thing.

They are using a basic landing page and any one who has been in the adult industry know that the CPC is crap like 1 cent a click at most.

Now is the best time ever to build up a site for this domain as Timmy said, every person in the domain world/ twitter is linking to it...Ranking for SEX relate keywords would be not too tricky.
 

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