sex.com for sale on eBay?

[earn100]

sèx.com i think "e" is german character but confusing auction at
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11153&item=5772562374&rd=1

 

[Humdizzy]

I seen that. I brought some names like that to see if my names could get that much of a sale. It's not that confusing because sèx.com is in the center in bold and red. What is confusing is "This Domain name gets over 60.000.000 Google hits". That might make someone think they are getting sex.com because there are only like 734 results for sèx on google.

 

[Zeeble]

its not a german character...... its French.

 

[nRnF]

Frankly, I think this is just another IDN rip off from somebody who wants to participate in the domain game at the cost of newbies.

Nowwhere in the auction it is said, that you actually buy a IDN name,
and in fact, the domain you buy is in
Row-based ASCII Compatible Encoding (RACE) "bq--abz6q6a.com"
in PUNYCODE "xn--sx-7ia.com"
and in UTF8 "sèx.com"

What I am not shure of is how google really treats this domain when it comes to keywords (sèx, bq--abz6q6a or xn--sx-7ia, sèx) ?
anyone know ?

In any case, IMO a big RIP OFF doing damage to the fair players.

 

[slaughterbeck]

You're right nRnF and if you feel that strongly about this you can report it to ebay. I doubt they would cancel the auction but I bet they will force the seller to make it known to prospective buyers that this is an IDN name.



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[Mystic]

it says at the top of the ebay auction:

!!! sex.com get it now !!!

so thats a lie, even though they clearly outline it

 

[floatingworld]

sex.com with a funny e is currently on sale on afternic bazaar for a starting price of $600...................

 

[FusunMedia]

I guess the domain could be useful if you speak french But the title in the auction is quite deceiving.

 

[krustie]

i almost put a bid on it, after i noticed it i felt very silly..

 

[Petter]

The title might not have the '`' because ebay says it's a forgain letter with the '`' over the 'e', but if it's not that I would never bid ..

 

[swimjenni]

its over $2000 now with only minutes left... I sure hope that the person knows what they are getting.

 

[sunken]

That guy is sure gonna be disappointed when he gets that name for $2000. Geesh. What a con...

 

[CodeName_88]

it was sold for about 2100$. Bad.

 

[EbookLover]

Winning bidder is brand spanking new. Most likely NPB.

 

[stscac]

idk if this is 100% true, but i think it was someone from np or DNF that was selling the domain name.