The news today that Gambling.com is being brokered by Sedo.com with a reserve price of $9 Million, raises the obvious question.
Will Gambling.com which sold last time for $20 Million sell for More or Less than Sex.com just sold for at $13 million?
You can vote on the poll on the right and place any comments below.
Are you joking? No…won’t even be close.
– TBC
My guess is $900K…two years from now.
don’t bet on it… hahaha… in soviet rusiia jokes tell you.
No way. I don’t even think “Gambling” is a top 50-100 keyword. It is too generic.
If it was something more targeted like “Poker” then the answer would be yes.
Brad
“Liquor in the Front, Poker in the Rear”
Sex will always be the preferred vice.
I think that Gambling.com could get into the millions but I still think Sex.com will beat it by a good margin.
No. There are negative connotations with the word ‘gambling’. It brings into reality the possibility of loss.
If you asked me what I think of when you say the word ‘gambling’, I think of risk. If you asked the same of ‘poker’ or ‘slots’ or ‘roulette’, I would think of fun (and I never even play those things).
There is a reason it is being sold to concentrate on a different domain.
I would buy gambling.com for $100k.
It’s worth about $150k.
It will sell for around $235k.
Good Luck to the buyer and seller!
As Sedo took on brokerage with such a reserve price, they must have some indicators of things going in this direction.
Tough to guess.
The online affiliates are quite lucrative.
From an end-user perspective, the industry itself seems to be trending away from the much more stigmatized “gambling” and towards the more sterile “gaming”, not to mention they’re is in some choppy waters right now (both online and B&M).
I’d put my own chips on it not selling for more than Sex.com, but it wouldn’t be a huge shocker if deep-pocketed people got persistent with it and it did. If casino money gets involved, it could. If not, then it probably won’t.
No, i don’t think Gambling.com will sell for so much money. Wanna know why am i saying this, Just take a look at popularity and other factors.
It certainly could sell for more than sex.com, but that does not mean it will. Because of the reasons below, it has a hard road to hoe.
The weaknesses are “ing” ending and the misspell because folks sometimes get confused with gambleing and gambling.
BUT……a large company that missed the boat, wants in the door, has an idea, could EASILY pluck down $13M or more. So value the way domainers look at it won’t necessarily determine the price of this domain name. How many people come to bid and their desire will.
Has nothing to do with the “Value” of this domain. It has to do with getting into the game for an outsider. As is the case with many of our assets.
“a large company that missed the boat, wants in the door, has an idea, could EASILY pluck down $13M or more”
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It is shocking and worrisome and impressive (all) at the same time to see “an industry” where $13,000,000 is viewed as pocket change.
If someone described the reality of the “domain name industry” to traditional business people… and told them people would “invest” $10,000,000 in an ASCII string that requires a few lines of ASCII text in a data file… with NO PROOF of Ownership… and managed by an unpredictable street gang of cyber-savants… with limited (clueless) government over-sight…and NOW growing trends that the entire industry will fragment…
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people would have to shocked at the level of numb-ness ?
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“EASILY pluck down $13M or more” ???
…anyone have some bridges in .NY to sell ?
people would have to shocked at the level of numb-ness ?
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“EASILY pluck down $13M or more” ???
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By the way, one of the best explanations offered for the current “State of the Domains” is…
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Imagine the Super Bowl with an open air stadium and helicopters flying over dropping bags of cash with $1,000,000 and also spreading $100 bills into the air with 50,000 people looking up (jaws wide open) saying….WTF ? WTF ?
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and the tiny minority of players in uniform on the field running around grabbing the bags of cash (the low hanging fruit)…until they can’t carry any more…[and slugging anyone that gets in their way]
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and the general public looking in from their TV…saying….”OH, that is now real money…that is monopoly money…those people are just having a half-time party…”
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and the announcers coming on and saying…”Folks, it sure looks like real money to us…as they display $100 bills they catch from the sky…”
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and the TV viewers saying….”No way that can be real…”
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and players running to some guy in a suit who has a card-board sign with SEX written on it….and the player trades 10 bags for the card-board sign…and the player is interviewed and tells everyone….”I OWN SEX” !!!
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and people watching on TV…saying…these people are nut-cases…
My guesstimate is it may go for less than Sex.com
There is more of a negative association with the word Gambling than with the likes of Poker, BlackJack, Lottery, Bingo, Bet etc which is essentially still the same thing, gambling
A bit like Porno would imply more hard core than Sex does
All great names but some may fit a wider or different type of audience
I really dont think this will come even close to what sex.com sold for. I just dont see it happening
6 million to 7 million will come from UK buyer.. Just a guess.
Donny1
$1-$1.5m tops is my guess
Meant “$1m-$1.5m” in my last post
Recognizing the parties interested in acquiring the domain and after hearing what’s already been laid on the table, it’s going to be interesting to see what the final outcome will be.
Our guess is the U.K. based sportsbook and gaming establishment that has been around much longer than the internet is gonna be a tough one to try and beat when it comes to bidding to win ownership of the domain. It’s very likely we’ll see a sale of $10m or more if both of the currently interested companies have just as strong of an interest. Not sure if it will sell for what sex.com sold for but anything is possible.
Wow! @ Kevin Murphy at DomainIncite broke some funny news which might impact sex.com: dot sx approved as new extension for the Dutch part of Sint Maarten! Nice going, ICANN! Never cease to amaze. Do you see a work-around for the dot xxx extension? That ICANN is too much!