Reglikedomain industry desk

Going to Make a Whole Lot of Money — .XXX Is

Latest six figure sale is a sign of things to come.

ICM Registry’s sale of gay.xxx for $500,000 is simply staggering. If there was any doubt ahead of, the firm is clearly going to make a mint.

This also shows that second level domains in relevant fresh top level domain names will sell for a lot more than the same second level in a generic TLD (save for .com and and perhaps .net and .org).

ICM states it has now sold nine premium .xxx domain names for $100,000 or more. We by now knew regarding Frank Schilling’s seven figure purchase, but others are lining up at the trough.

I’m beginning to think the dozen .xxx domain names to be auctioned at the upcoming TRAFFIC conference could easily make that auction a success in dollar terms. Movies.xxx and Blondes.xxx seems like they could sell for big bucks, but I’ll admit I’m not very knowledgeable regarding the “hot” keywords in the adult entertainment industry.

Also on the wire

Other reporting from the domain desk.

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