According to Sedo.com last press release on Sex.com the deadline for selling it privately expired on last week on September 28th.
“ Sedo the leading online domain marketplace and broker of premium domain names today announced that the private sale period for Sex.com will end on September 28, 2010.”
That notice was sent out on September 9th.
Today is October 4th and to date Sedo.com has not announced a sale or that a sale is pending.
However also according to the bankruptcy court order, once the private sales period expired and no buyer was found, the domain name has go to a public auction within 30 days.
“This “private sale period” is 90 days long. If it doesn’t result in a sale at a minimum specified price, Sedo will hold a public auction within 30 days of the end of the private sale period.
So if Sedo has to hold a public auction within 30 days of September 28th, then we are just 3 weeks away from the date of the auction and they haven’t announced the auction.
If you were going to hold an auction for sex.com with an 8 figure goal you would want to announced the auction in advance and promote it as much as possible.
So we are back to where we started.
What is going on with Sex.com?
The reserve will be high and it likely won’t sell anyway. Not that it isn’t a great domain, but that’s my guess.
But the auction hasn’t even been set, nor has Sedo said it will be going to auction.
Nor have the said they have a deal on the domain.
Yea yea yea, if u run a news blog for the industry this is indeed important to track. For the rest of us why waste energy focusing on something that is going to result in nothing. Redrew will be super end user priced and if an end user was going to buy it they would have already. It will get interesting when they run it again later at a lower reserve, and then again later and so on till it finally sells. It has to sell eventually it is in bankruptcy, it’s going to end up somewhere. Or…… Perhaps they have a potential deal going now and are frozen at the moment with a dealine marching forward. Maybe they are between a rock and a hard place
I don’t believe sex.com could break any record price
when the SE was in the early days this name had an high value
but now, tags and keywords, can direct web surfers to the sites they seek
The M$ Windows 7 mobile phone will be out October 11th.
What if the new DNS is showcased there ?
I predict Sex.com will not go to auction and will sell for eight figures.
David
You think $10M
$10M-$12.5M
$12.5M-$15M
$15M and up?
Your prediction is will be invalid if you are the buyer
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I’m not the buyer
less than $3 million
I don’t see 8 figures anymore.
I would hazard to predict that there will be a huge drop in price that it fetches and it will sell in the 7 figure range.
I only wish I had that kind of spare money to be laying round to be the buyer
Just the way I see it
Cheers
I dont think it will be quite as low as 3 million but I dont see it breaking out of the 7 figure range.
I would put a sales tag of 7 million.
Cheers
I’m going to guess it will sell for eight million.
If anyone thinks tags or keywords now replace domains they are mistaken. Did keyword searches not appear 10 years ago? Of course they did. No difference today.
It might has been taken by Mike Mann.
Yinan
What does this mean?:
“It might has been taken by Mike Mann.”
Domainer Gate
There is a line of people waiting to pay $5M
This domain has such a sordid colorful history, much as the act of sex itself. It’s a priceless domain, that has little ROI value to a potential buyer, at least at the current extravagant listed price. It’s tainted, soiled, cursed and one of those rare things that by virtue of it’s existence defies logical categorization.
@Dean
I couldn’t agree with you more. On the other hand, Sex.com would easily be worth eight figures simply used as the domain for one of those dopey sexual enhancement infomercials. Instead of the viewer trying to write down a toll free number or remember a product’s name they would remember Sex.com instantaneously. It boggles the mind that corporate America hasn’t keyed into this yet.
Apparently, the domain is not going to auction.
“There is a line of people waiting to pay $5M”
but they haven’t really paid this price yet
are they SURE to resell sex.com with a good profit?
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“So What Happened To Sex…”
I hate to break it to you Mike, but you are just getting older=)
Troy
“but you are just getting older”
Hey I had a birthday last week tell me something I don’t know
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“On the other hand, Sex.com would easily be worth eight figures simply used as the domain for one of those dopey sexual enhancement infomercials. Instead of the viewer trying to write down a toll free number or remember a product’s name they would remember Sex.com instantaneously. It boggles the mind that corporate America hasn’t keyed into this yet.”
OR maybe corporate america/sleazy info guys know for $8.95 they can reg a name and its the infomercial itself running for an hour with two blondes with big tatas that gets people to visit the site and buy the pills. btw lil fyi, for $10M they could create at a minimum 15-30 infomercials ( all reg fee dot coms included ). Only a FOOL would buy sex.com to use it for something like this.
Drink your own kool aid, this corporate america not getting it bs only makes sense with certain names.
“Google TV Announces Its Programming Partners, but the Top Networks Are Absent”
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“The major television networks — ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC — will not participate, at least for the moment. ”
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“They don’t actually need content partners to start their little revolution,” he said. “They don’t need the major broadcasters to play along because they can do a lot of cool things with you as a viewer without having to share any of the money.”
It will be very interesting to see how much the domain name will end up selling for and what company will get it and what they will do with it. and I wonder if it will ever be for sale again down the road…
As usual Josh is the voice of reason.
Sex.com to advertise some infomercial is overkill
And this constant wailing that domainers bring up “corporate america just doesn’t get it…wahh…wahh” is nothing more than domainers’ sales pitch.
Obviously, domainers see things one way…unfortunately the rest of the business world sees it another..
“Corporates don’t get it”
Translation: “they’re not spending big money buying (my) domains”
$5mm is the price… No more for that now…
The economy is so bad not even sex is selling.
@Aggro
“Corporates don’t get it”
Translation: “they’re not spending big money buying (my) domains”
LOL Correct.
I’ve been hearing the same “names are worth that much” argument for years. The truth is they are worth that much. Every week I cut a revenue deal for one of our names and I can tell with 100% certainty the name matters to the advertiser. Big time. I’ve seen this over and over again with our Nashville.com, Daycare.com, Whisky.com, PalmSprings.com, Bullion.com, etc.
My brother and I spent a chunk of change for Nashville.com in 2003. We received emails telling us we were idiots and fools – and we doubled our money in six months. The one thing I’ve noticed over the years is that the people who consistently criticize high value for names don’t own any of these monsters in their portfolio.
totally agree with immense value of sex.com
assuming it will sell at this price, it isn’t a record, so, the “sex” is “falling”…
Dont understand why sedo is keeping mum on sex.com.