Reglikedomain industry desk

For sale on eBay — JoePaterno.xxx up

Joe Paterno triple x domain name among those for sale on eBay.

I guess it could be more tasteless.

A Florida man has placed JoePaterno.xxx up for sale on eBay for $3,400.

But thankfully the seller doesn’t have a description referring to the child sex scandal at Penn State. So it could be more tasteless.

The Joe Paterno name is just one of the interesting .xxx domains I found for sale on eBay today. A few days back I discovered someone selling FoxStudios.xxx (which is subject to a UDRP).

A California man is trying to cash in on a lot of big name trademarks. He has listed WashingtonPost.xxx, TravelZoo.xxx, CNBC.xxx, BusinessWeek.xxx, NexTag.xxx, SnapFish.xxx, and Geocities.xxx for sale. All for a price higher than any of these firms would have to pay to get the domains through UDRP.

Some of the domains for sale are just plain odd.

Consider Cloud-Computing.xxx with a starting bid of $200,000.

Makes sense, right? Cloud computing is sooo sexy.

Another laugher: TebowTime.xxx with a buy now price of $1.2 million.

‘Cause nothing goes together better than a devout Christian and porn.

Well, at least eBay gets to collect listing fees from these suckers.

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