In my book, $13 million is the top sale of all time.
When the Central California Bankruptcy Court approves the sale of Sex.com for $13 million cash later this month, it will be the most expensive all-cash domain name ever sold and publicly disclosed.
Some may debate this. Some may say Insure.com at $16 million was higher. Or Insurance.com at $35.6 million. But I disagree. These purchases had to do with the existing organic traffic and search rankings of the properties. Did the domains help make the search rankings possible? Sure. But the buyers put weight on the results, not the cause.
Sex.com is very different. It’s not solely a domain name, but it’s as close as we’re going to get. The web site at Sex.com will be completely scrapped and there’s nothing impressive about its search rankings. The buyers want the domain name and the rights to it (two trademarks). Pure and simple.
Sex.com will now top the previous most expensive sale — which happens to be the last time Sex.com sold for about $12 million in cash. There was an equity component, but that is probably worthless now.
it might be worth that as long as they have a good idea and an extra 200 million to put into it. it certainly is worth more than flowers.mobi.
I thought vegas.com or lasvegas.com changed hands a few years back at a higher figure
Sigh. If only…
http://www.domaining.com/topsales/ sex.com $14,000,000
13 or 14?
For me, Insurance.com would be more valuable than Sex.com because of its business potential.
I hope the offer would be approved very soon.
so, also the .xxx TLD has a bright future!
Needsize.com would be more valuable than Sex.com?
@ Andrew
Did not mean to snub you,
had to leave for a court hearing.
@ Henrique
How many Millions do you want for it?
🙂
yes this domain is pretty valuable, but google.com would sell pretty well now even if it was just for the domain and not the content.