Sex.co Headed to Auction Block in May

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Sex.co domain name to be auctioned off in May.

That’s not a typo in the headline.

Sex.com may be off the auction block, but the owner of the Colombian ccTLD Sex.co hopes to cash in this May. Mobile Entertainment Group of Colombia plans to auction off the domain name at Sedo.

I talked to Mobile Entertainment Group founder Jan Leijnse by phone today. He explained that he’s not sure how much traffic the domain name gets as it was parked at Sedo only recently.

You may be wondering how his company got the second level domain name before .co relaunches. Remember, anyone who registered a third level .co domain name prior July 30, 2008 can get rights to the corresponding second level domain name. Leijnse’ company owned Sex.com.co and therefore was able to register Sex.co. There is no restriction on transferring these second level domain names to other entities.

Colombia has historically been really strict about who can register domain names, requiring an exact match to a trade name or trademark. Alas, here’s a registration for Sex.com.co.

Further Reading:

  1. I.co Headed to the Auction Block
  2. Cost-Per-Action Search Engine Patent Headed to Auction Block
  3. Peaches.com Headed to Auction

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Comments

  1. dcmike77
    March 22nd, 2010 | 3:10 pm

    Suuuuurree..I’m sure he knows exactly what traffic sex.co gets….

  2. Andrew Allemann
    March 22nd, 2010 | 3:21 pm

    @ dcmike77 – he doesn’t yet. They just got the domain.

  3. DomainersChoice.com
    March 22nd, 2010 | 6:32 pm

    I wonder if he will release the information before it is sold. I doubt, but then I might be wrong.

  4. marla
    March 22nd, 2010 | 7:42 pm

    super domain

  5. chandan
    March 23rd, 2010 | 8:45 am

    interesting to watch for a typo domain :D

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