What Poker.org and Sex.com Mean for the Average Domainer
Poker.org just sold for $1 million. Sex.com should definitely exceed $5 million in the forthcoming auction. This is electrifying news for domainers big and small. It should increase your confidence in the industry and in the money that can be made at the very top. When you have a one word irreplaceable “got-to-have-it” domain, time and time again we have seen values increase.
How will you react to this news? Many, unfortunately, will run out with fist-fulls of cash trying to buy some of the lower hanging .org names. This is not what you should do. This is not what companies want. They do not want a name like mykitchentable.org (unregistered at the time of the post) and I can’t imagine a future where people will be fighting over such a name.
Companies are not spending millions on IDNs right now either. But I do imagine a time where premium one word IDNs mirror the steep climb that .com’s and .org’s have experienced over the past decade.
The story of this, the ultimate premium domain, is indeed a fascinating one. The story of the litigation that lead to Gary Kremen’s recovery of the domain after a three-year legal battle that established the legal basis for domain names as property is told in The Sex.Com Chronicles, A White-Hat Lawyer’s Journey to the Dark Side of the Internet. http://sex.comchronicles.com.
[...] abuzz about the impending sale and some are heralding it as good news for the domain industry. As one blogger put it: ” Sex.com should definitely exceed $5 million in the forthcoming auction. This is [...]