Brokered by Moniker.com, terms of the transaction were not fully disclosed, but it is believed to be one of the most significant adult domain transactions in history.Plans for the new PORN.COM were not immediately revealed, and the new owner considers its development to be a “longer-term project”.
“We will take our time with PORN.COM”, says a representative of MXN Ltd. It does not need to transform overnight. In the meantime, we will keep it parked with PremiumTraffic.com, a leading domain name monetization company”.
Easily worth every penny.
Easily worth every penny.
Ya I am also not sure about this.
Traffic Rank for porn.com: 342,905
Traffic Rank for sex.com: 1,253
Over the last three months it has been down 40% as far as viewers go...(src Alexa) only 27% of it's visitors are from the UK, the USA or Canada
It takes a long time to bring in 9 million dollars and attribute it to people just typing porn.com without a search or link click of any kind.
I only hope we see more sales of this kind flop so that some sanity can return to domaineering. Prices are getting stupid and a lot of the time they haven't even built up the domain keyword results... they have just parked it with ads... hurting the ranking not helping it.
I equate this to buying a house and putting up billboard ads all over the yard rather then developing the property... it hurts not helps.
[edited by: Demaestro at 6:38 pm (utc) on May 16, 2007]
Alexa is incredibly innacurate. Porno.com is shown on Alexa as ranked at 27,071 and I can guarantee you that porn.com gets more typein traffic.
Oh . . . you mean the domain? . . Sorry . .
Porn.com can easily make that money back in under 10 years.
Second that. I might even go as far as 7 years. All depends on the plans.
Then again, what happens if the electric power grid goes down? No power, no internet?
Besides, if making money was easy and risk free we'd all be rich. I just wanna know which one of you is holdin' my easy money? ;-P
Heck, I almost never get sex-oriented email spam anymore.
Wonder if the millions will ever change hands?
OK fellow WebmasterWorld brain surgeons, anyone care to guess as to what it will have ;)?
By the way: I would NEVER buy a domain that didn't make the cash in 2-3 years. 7 or 10 years that you guys mentioned is way too long in this game. "You never know" comes to mind and $9 mil is a lot of cash to wait 10 years for it. Invested, at a reasonable 10% can make you more in interest alone.
anyone care to guess as to what it will have
Perhaps, but some things never go out of style. :)
Wasn't plentyoffish.com doing something like a million a month?
Anyone remember the sale of WallStreet.com for just over $1m? Those were some of the early dn sales that turned ppl into domainers and birthed a cottage industry.
Speaking of turn-around profit, after the ws sale, its new owner said:
"We plan on making a return on this investment in six months," said Patrick Carter, a manager at Simpson Bay Limited, the corporate owner of the casino.
p/g
If I buy waterfront real estate today I will probably make a loss in the next 12 months.....but, in the next 12 years it will probably be the best investment available with hindsight!
My view is buy real estate over domain names.....having said that...porn.com seems very reasonally priced to me!
$9 million today on surface value is likely to be $20 million is 10 years....not the best investment a person could make......but, not the worst either!
If it is funded with real hard cash it will do just fine :)
My view is buy real estate over domain names.....having said that...porn.com seems very reasonally priced to me!
Domain names are real estate. Even better they are digital products, easily transferable and many have a low cost of entry. I have sold domains for 6000 % profit and more, not so sure I could do that with bricks and morter.
