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Sex.com sells itself into the record books
THE 13 MILLION DOLLAR SALE of the domain name Sex.com last year has taken the seedy website name into the Guinness Book of World Records as the "most expensive Internet address domain name".
Unless the domain name, the sale of which was orchestrated by domain seller Sedo, was planning to jump over a line a double decker buses, this was probably the only award it was ever likely to win. However, that has not stopped Sedo from making a big splash about the event and revelling in its glory.
The domain, which was notoriously stolen, sold with its $13 million price tag in November last year, and - for pure research purposes - we can tell you that it currently showing links for dating websites, sex personals, sex toys, live sex cams and, um, car insurance quotes. We did not investigate the website or links it offers any further, honest.
"The sale of Sex.com was truly a team effort. We spent about two years with the domain establishing the relationship, researching and finding the right buyer and managing the domain's transfer," said Kathy Nielsen, director of sales at Sedo. "We're honoured that Sedo was trusted with such a high-value and high-profile sale, and we're ecstatic that it is now being recognised by Guinness World Records as a record-breaking price."
Confusingly, this is apparently not the highest price ever raised by the domain, which once sold to a US outfit called Escom for $14 million. However, this is perhaps the least controversial thing about Sex.com, which was stolen from generic term domain registrator Gary Kremen in 1995.
After some court wrangling Kremen got his domain name back and was awarded $65 million for his troubles. However, the man who stole it and used it to set up a porn empire promptly disappeared, taking his chequebook with him. µ
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Trinh
Most expensive and cheapest too. At Dashworlds.com, new dashcom (not dotcom) domains like "sex-com" or "sex-xxx" or "xxx-sex" (or if you need a break, "not-tonight") are free.
It was never clear to me why it was so easy for someone to take a domain from its rightful owner; or, given that they had done so, why it was so difficult to grab it back.
If Captain Kremen had simply used the same trick that Cohen used to steal it, instead of trying to do it legitimately through Notwork Abortions abysmal resolution procedure, presumably he would have had much less trouble?