Bidding for Sex.com Domain Starts at $1million
Did you know that if you type the word “sex” in Google search, the domain name Sex.com doesn’t even show up on the first page? Even if you do manage to find it, it isn’t the greatest porn site ever created by any means, in fact it’s sort of a low-budget directory page with a misspelled logo, links to other sites, and even, ::gulp::, horoscopes. Yikes!
The previous owner of the site, some group called “ESCOM” apparently failed to finish making payments on their $14 million dollar purchase of the domain back in 2006, and just recently the string of owners and legal battles has finally ended, and Sex.com will go up for auction next month. But don’t think your measley $20,000 offer is going to get you the starting bid- according to TechCrunch, the auction will start at a million bucks, and very likely sky rocket from there.
It’s all the buzz among the tech (and probably porn) community… who will have the cash to throw down for this über-coveted domain? Could it be Playboy or Hustler? Or some unknown underground company that’s about to take the internet by storm?
What do you think?