Comments on: What is a Domain Name Worth?

By: mark

mark — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 03:56:48 +0000

haha, hilarious posts ppl! :D

If only I couldn’ve dreamt up that domain name before someone did…

By: Bill McRea

Bill McRea — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 04:52:25 +0000

Gosh give the email address I have some good domain names I’d sell for just under 1 Million….

Any one willing to caugh up a few mil for pickyournose.com or runningmonkeybut.com.

Let me know

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:36:51 +0000

Thanks Carole – the issue is generally about policy not prudishness. I might not mind seeing a large pair of buttocks, but my employer might think different… ;)

By: Carole Nickerson

Carole Nickerson — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:34:18 +0000

Oh come on people…. you see much worse on t.v.!

By: Michele

Michele — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:12:07 +0000

Yes, a “not child friendly” warning would have been nice, my kids were right in the room and the top ad was NOT very child friendly :(

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:05:11 +0000

Yes probably just as well I didn’t click when at work – there would’ve been some raised eyebrows (at least) going to a site titled “Comprehensive Adult Webmaster Resources” heheh…

I suppose I could’ve said it was research into heart rates…

By: Hagrin

Hagrin — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:56:53 +0000

“Bought for 10 bucks sold for 14 millions , this is serious business dude :)”

Does no one here know about how the sex.com domain name was HIJACKED and took several YEARS to recover?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/04/sex_com_owner_wins_65m/

Forget the selling of the domain, he’s cashed in a few times on this domain. Whether or not he’s actually received a penny from that settlement, I don’t know.

By: Brad M

Brad M — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:57:46 +0000

$14 million for sex.com is a steal! Type-in traffic alone is worth that in one year…

By: Simon T

Simon T — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:39:43 +0000

It’s all very well, but generic names don’t make good brand names. Better to create something unique and spend the money on advertising it I’d say. If you spent the money on Google ads instead to drive traffic it would go a long way.
But what do I care? They’re just a bunch of pornographers.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:16:19 +0000

I thought sex.com would be worth a lot more. I had at least $40 million in mind.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:39:26 +0000

Duncan, you can get off the floor now ;-) 72K going once, twice … hang on I have a bid for $1m …

By: Loren

Loren — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:28:10 +0000

oh yeah, almost $100,000…. yikes…

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:07:29 +0000

almost $1,000,000 for BlogHerald??? you’re around $928,000 short :-)

‘post a tad confusing’ also ??? pretty clear to me – the post title and a linked figure – sometimes a short post is a good post – gotta be the shortest post going around ;-)

By: Loren

Loren — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:56:19 +0000

$14,000,000 is a lot to pay for sex… oh, sex.com, oh… that’s different. Heck, if someone’s going to put up almost $1,000,000 clams for BlogHerald, Sex.com for $14M is a pure bargain.

By: Liam Daly

Liam Daly — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:33:19 +0000

Does this push the reward for the winning suggestion for your new blog domain up from $100?

By: Azam Zaki

Azam Zaki — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:05:14 +0000

Bought for 10 bucks sold for 14 millions , this is serious business dude :)

By: A.H

A.H — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:58:53 +0000

Hey, what’s with having a go at Darren for not posting anything, i think he did it knowing what he’s doing, he’s trying to deliver a message with a meaning here.

A.H

By: David Hardin

David Hardin — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:54:39 +0000

You could’ve mentioned that it’s not “work safe”. There’s a nude ad on the right. I’ll forgive you since it’s late there.

By: John Evans (Syntagma)

John Evans (Syntagma) — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:40:29 +0000

Yes, but, Sex.com! Sex is the most searched-for term on the internet, I believe, or very close to it. Amazing they think they can make more than 14 mega-big ones back from it though.

I see Problogging.com is about to start up, run by David Krug of JOAB fame. How do you assess that competition, Darren?

By: D. Campbell

D. Campbell — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:30:43 +0000

I agree. Post a tad bit confusing. Is this the value of PROBLOGGER.NET?