.com Rick Schwartz Sells Porno.Com For $8,888,888: The 4th Highest Reported Domain Sale Of All Time

[mrcurly]

Another great sale by Rick

Rick Schwartz Sells Porno.Com For $8,888,888: The 4th Highest Reported Domain Sale Of All Time

http://www.thedomains.com/2015/02/0...4th-highest-reported-domain-sale-of-all-time/

 

[RU]

Honestly that is very very overpriced. If I was going to spend that much I'd better get Porn.com not Porno.com.

"porno" is a russian translit...

 

[venturefile.com]

easy to say that as long as you don't own such a name and don't get offers in the millions..

i rather bet all my money on it that anybody else except for Rick would have sold this domain way earlier and for way less already to some enduser.. probably for a million, and never looking back..

We get to hear such impressive sales from him only because he is in the comfortable financial situation (since having sold Hotels.com for 4m early on) of saying no to even 7 figures offers until he is in the mood to sell..

This

not just russian.. Porno means Porn in many slawish languages (as in Czech where the Buyer is from) and also in German language..
English language is not the only language spoken in the world..

and this. The fact that the name made 7 figures just with parking and redirects speaks volumes.. Congrats to Rick.

 

[tomcarl]

Congrats @ Rick Schwartz. So much for retiring, come back, dude.

 

[laladomains]

Great sale.
Congratulations Rick Schwartz!

 

[hn]

Used to read his blogs which he stopped writing a few months back. Mostly liked him for his takes on "pigeon shit" domains.

 

[lock]

The domain king has some more stripes.

 

[marillion9]

Great news for the entire dot com industry. I have the feeling will be seeing more record sales as great domains become ever more rare!

 

[LoneDeranger]

That is a fine sale, did he hold it? Registered it? I mean, when did he bought the domain and for how long it was in his possession?

 

[umask077]

I'm aware. But Porn is the category killer name not Porno. Porno is worth high six figures maybe. Schwartz found a way to milk the buyer.

Porn is the category killer in English but as someone stated earlier... there are more languages besides English.Porno is the Spanish for Porn and just FYI... Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world(413M speakers) after Chinese.So yes,this domain is worth 7 figures(5M+)... Selling this one for six figures is plain stupid.

 

[RU]

today's pornodrop (not mine)

Domains such as "http****.com is worth anything??

 

[lock]

i would think httpporno isn't exactly worthless as you will still get some type ins. It has no resale value really but chances are could pay for itself.

 

[starizec]

That's a great sale and I'd say Rick came out just fine on it..I wonder which adult company bought it.

Some company from EU. Cant remember the name. They have couple more porn sites.

 

[baseballworld]

If you read the story Rick made over 10 million on this domain parked over the years so maybe the 8.8 million price tag isn't all that overpriced.

congrats to rick on selling a domain that made $10 million in income for 8

 

[SpongyBob]

Very curious about all the 888,888s. 888 casino, maybe?

Or as Sirkali said, maybe a Chinese buyer with a number fetish. :D

 

[john_karr]

That is a fine sale, did he hold it? Registered it? I mean, when did he bought the domain and for how long it was in his possession?

Checkout the video below. Rich explain how he got into buying domain names and porno.com


http://www.domainsherpa.com/rick-schwartz-domainking-interview/

 

[john_karr]

Rick still have a lot of great xxx domain names.

Dick.com
ass.com
booty.com
sexo.com sex.com in Spanish & Portuguese.

 

[lock]

He would have got his 47k back long ago in parking.

 

[john_karr]

Bankaholic.com was a financial blog sale not a domain name.

 

[cmdomains]

I guess only kings can .... insert pun: can sell men (dot com).

 

[artstar]

Hmmm, children listen up,

porn & porno(s) are short for pornographic ! That's it that's all.

So I had regged in fall:

Pornos.Miami
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because miami is loaded with naughtiness!

 

[gemstar]

Hmmm, children listen up,

LOL

 

[-EM-]

Acording to DNjournal since 1997

 

[Itadomain87]

I adore him all the time

 

[Domainzy]

Wow, great sale! Congrats to Rick. Cheers!

Sidenote: I hand reg Pawrn.com as this was the dictionary suggested pronunciation of porn. Just for fun.

 

[lock]

I have pornochain.com guess it is worth a little more now.