Latest six figure sale is a sign of things to come.
ICM Registry’s sale of gay.xxx for $500,000 is simply staggering. If there was any doubt before, the company is clearly going to make a mint.
This also shows that second level domains in relevant new top level domain names will sell for a lot more than the same second level in a generic TLD (save for .com and and perhaps .net and .org).
ICM says it has now sold nine premium .xxx domain names for $100,000 or more. We already knew about Frank Schilling’s seven figure purchase, but others are lining up at the trough.
I’m beginning to think the dozen .xxx domain names to be auctioned at the upcoming TRAFFIC conference could easily make that auction a success in dollar terms. Movies.xxx and Blondes.xxx seems like they could sell for big bucks, but I’ll admit I’m not very knowledgeable about the “hot” keywords in the adult entertainment industry.
Joe says
The real problem with new gTLDs is they’re too limited, unlike regular gTLDs, because each one covers only a (larger or smaller) niche. And consequently limited is the pool of valuable “relevant” keywords.
David J Castello says
I would be very careful using dotXXX as any type of barometer for future gTLD sales.
Rob Sequin says
I’m curious to know how any registry can sell domains without a process that is open to public bidding?
TM holders have the sunrise period so what if there is a Gay TM out there? They can’t get their TM .xxx because it was already sold?
How about the little guy who wants to buy a particular .xxx domain but all the good ones are sold before they are even available?
I really don’t care but I would think ICANN would have rules about rolling out new domains to the PUBLIC not for private sales behind closed doors.
Just curious.
ze says
what about .info, .travel, .pro, .mobi, .OTHER_DUMMY_EXTENSION_GOOD_TO_GET_MONEY_ON_THE_FIRST_YEAR ?
Acro says
Surely it will lose traffic to gayxxx.com