auctions ѕех.com in auction – How much will it sell for?

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The domain name ѕех.com is now listed for sale

And yet, this domain, that boasts 703 offer views and 43 bids, is in fact an IDN domain, consisting of non-ASCII characters.

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[hamiltondomain]

I say its total deception and has no value, do hope we get updated on who the proud new owner is

The whole industry is about deception haha

 

[dordomai]

Ok a couple of things... Sex.com, the actual one, is like the one of most expensive domain of all time, somewhere around the top ten at around $10m+. Anyone looking at sedo, will not be on the site through searching the actual domain, so they have seen it via sedo, so they must have some interest in domains. And the fact that they are about to pay $5k, they must have some level of interest in domains as $5k is to most a lot of money, so whilst I strongly believe there is a lot of stupid and / or ignorant people, you know you are not getting something worth millions for thousands.

The reality is, as crap as the name may be, it probably still has some value on the basis it looks like sex.com! So search engine advertising, banner adverts etc, where the "customer" clicks as opposed to types in, will do well. And the porn industry is big on banners, and something that looks like sex.com will for sure have a high click through rate. For someone in that industry, it will have value.

yes but even if people are more likely to click they will never come back again to the website!! either they view strange code like xn--dr4r5r.com or they view sex.com. In the first case they will not remember and in the second case they will go to the real sex.com

i guess Sedo is making quite a bit of money from these fake IDN sales. when a newcomer views these they will realise that something can not be right with but they still might think if sex.com is worth $13 million, this one must be at least worth 10k or so.

then they end up paying $xxxx for a domain that will never sell except to a greater fool.

sedo has been accepting these auctions for many many years.

 

[platey]

Did you even read my post!!! I was very clear the advantages are around banner adverts and search engine advertising (PPC) and not SEO / direct traffic!

It's an industry which has massive spend on banner advertising, FACT!! My opinion, and it's a fair one, is the CTR for a site that looks like it's a trusted popular "sex.com" will be higher than most. How on earth do you think that has zero value.

You may wish to call me "ignorant", but a simple site with all the usual links etc, and a banner campaign, would make money all day long!

Many people use the actual word with a 5 at the front of ex instead of an S and with a 5 at the front and a y on the end in their online profiles and it would seem many prefer using the 5 instead of an S because if you had to put a letter in front of ex the mind would only put an S or a 5 usually

Its worth what it sold for all day long and should the sale be contested the media attention it would attract would be worth far more than the price of the domain

Allegedly

 

[TheWatcher]

I bought it.























Naah!

 

[hamiltondomain]

I bought it.

Irrespective of what people say the "resale" value is, you can make money off that domain all day long! Very simple development (if you don't already have a site that is), spend a bit of money on real cool banners and your in. Good luck!

 

[dordomai]

I bought it.

why? waste of time and money imo

 

[Paul123]

why? waste of time and money imo

Read ALL of The Watchers post

Best,
Paul

 

[EmotiveDomains]

Click bait.

 

[platey]

It's quite funny actually

LLL. COM sell for $15k+? Because they are all sold

NNN. COM sell for good money

NNLL and LLNN in com? I all gone?

But NLL in. Com not worth $5k lol

domain investors think like domain investors

Brand consultants know the potential value in a potential brand

If a celeb wore a top with that on it people would be queuing to buy the same item of clothing

Whoever bought that name can't lose just win win

 

[dordomai]

someone should create an IDN like sucker.com and list it.

 

[Daniel Owens]

I used to own an single letter IDN domain didn't sell for squat. It was something like Latin-English. These bizarre characters can't be typed by the average or even advanced internet user. I would avoid IDN's even though you can type in a pun-code to see it, that defeats the purpose of a good domain. I would again say avoid.

 

[BionicMan]

If you have a language pack you can type it out with macrons and what not.

 

[lock]

If i owned sex dot com i would want it great to trash.

 

[james haw]

It reads like a tiny-printed Terms and Conditions checkbox that most click without reading.

Blindly ticking boxes next to unread text on a website when you are bidding 4 or more figures, honestly, that's entirely their responsibility.

I'm not saying they "deserve everything they get", but it's not hidden text tucked away, it's something you have to actively agree to!

 

[Samer]

Could be Schilling.. He's a millionaire right? and you never forget where you came from.. (Im talking about domains not the name)

 

[SamQuino]

I almost got into it when I found an auction with a very rare one word short generic name. I could have placed a winning bid, if I didn't read the fine print that it is an IDN. It could have been a total waste of hard earn money.

 

[sarahsdomains]

ridiculous. Non-English name.

You are about to bid on a domain name that contains special non-English characters (i.e. "ä","ö","ü","á","é", "í") and is anINTERNATIONALIZED DOMAIN (IDN). Technically the domain is: XN--E1A6A7B.COM

It's never gonna be found on Google.

 

[MANNYKURSH]

after sex.com i saw alot alot idn without bids on sedo.all these idiots just lost their money on sedo

 

[urlurl]

It's never gonna be found on Google.

might be found if someone google's 'xn e1a6a7b',

LMFAO

 

[Michael Ehrhardt]

English is a West Germanic language ️

So there is no English

These 26 letters in your head a LATIN characters

Learn your history