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Quick Poll: So How Much Will Sex.co Sell For At The TRAFFIC Auction?

September 22, 2011 by Michael Berkens

Rick Schwartz just send out an email announcing that Sex.co would be on the auction block at TRAFFIC.

This is certainly one of the high profile .Co domains so the question is what do you think it will sell for

In some recent .Co sales Luxury.Co sold for $60K and Women.co sold for $30K.

Sex.com as you know most recently sold for $13M

Of course we don’t know what the reserve price is of the domain so it may not sell at all and we gave you that selection.

Please vote on the right and put your pick below for bragging rights.

Filed Under: .CO

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. [] ALT PAD [] not all tablets will be sold by Apple [] says

    September 22, 2011 at 2:35 pm

    $1M

  2. BrianWick says

    September 22, 2011 at 2:54 pm

    Time to bail out….Get out before .xxx really “heats” up…

    Owner Diego Arbelaez probably paid a hefty “sourcing” premium to buy it in the first place during sunrise, sunset timeframe or whatever the non.comers call it.

    I say the poor sucker (new buyer) will not even pay $100K for it – that is if it hits the reserve at all.

    Probably will be a pretty good indication of desparate time and where .co is really going

  3. todaro says

    September 22, 2011 at 2:59 pm

    $1M… hahahahahaha… sometimes i try to be funny when posting but i will never make a joke that good. well done mr krebs… well done.

  4. Joe says

    September 22, 2011 at 3:06 pm

    IMO it will sell in the $50k-$75k range.

  5. Brad says

    September 22, 2011 at 3:13 pm

    I think it will sell for between $100K – $250K.

    Brad

  6. Mike says

    September 22, 2011 at 3:26 pm

    My guess is $300k – $450k

  7. BrianWick says

    September 22, 2011 at 3:31 pm

    The real answer will come from R.cOBERT .CoLINE.
    I am anxiously awaiting on the edge of my seat for his analysis.

  8. [] ALT PAD [] not all tablets will be sold by Apple [] says

    September 22, 2011 at 3:45 pm

    “$1M… hahahahahaha…”

    .co haven’t an high value, but sex.co is the only sex.goodtld available now

  9. WinningSex.com says

    September 22, 2011 at 3:53 pm

    $25,000 to $35,000

  10. em says

    September 22, 2011 at 4:18 pm

    I think we are looking at around $150000. That makes sense.

  11. Rich says

    September 22, 2011 at 4:27 pm

    200k

  12. James says

    September 22, 2011 at 4:39 pm

    $200k to $300k

  13. vig says

    September 22, 2011 at 5:21 pm

    If a real buyer, 50k – 100k IMO

    But if certain people (cough cough) connected to the registry buy the name, or get their friends to buy the name, or they work out a special deal with someone in order to generate more .CO publicity…… That definitely doesn’t seem out of the question given the past stuff I keep reading about .CO names being reserved for special people.

    Then, well, I guess it could sell for more.

  14. Kevin Murphy says

    September 22, 2011 at 5:47 pm

    Interesting that .CO would choose to release this name now.

    A name like sex.co, you’d think a registry would leave it until it thought valuations in its TLD had peaked, in order to get the maximum sale price.

    That said, the launch of .xxx may depress porn-related prices in other TLDs, so perhaps it’s better to get rid of it now.

  15. BrianWick says

    September 22, 2011 at 5:55 pm

    @Kevin Murphy-
    “A name like sex.co, you’d think a registry would leave it until it thought valuations in its TLD had peaked”

    And that sums it up – party is over – has been for awhile – time to bail out big time – albeit there is likely a very unrealistic reserve on it.
    I am revising my 100K prediction to “Joe’s” 50k-75k – it wont sell because of some rediculous reserve.

  16. Chris says

    September 22, 2011 at 6:04 pm

    $100-150K

  17. Joe says

    September 22, 2011 at 6:24 pm

    @Kevin Murphy

    If you look at whois for Sex.co, the domain isn’t among the reserved ones, but it has been actually owned by someone since February 2010.

  18. Brad says

    September 22, 2011 at 6:29 pm

    “A name like sex.co, you’d think a registry would leave it until it thought valuations in its TLD had peaked, in order to get the maximum sale price.”

    .CO has already peaked. There is far less interest now than there was last year.

    Brad

  19. Don says

    September 22, 2011 at 6:41 pm

    $550,000

  20. waitaminute says

    September 22, 2011 at 7:10 pm

    vig, it sounds like some conspiracy theory nonsense but truthfully there’s nothing to stop two people from bidding against each other in collusion, hoping for a third party to make a bid, or even “selling” domains to each other just to generate a sales report which might drive interest in the domain in the future if it comes up for sale again. these auctions have a degree of anonymity that is probably not as easily achievable in a brick and mortar auction, where even in the most repuatble auction houses, the risks of shill bidding have always been present.

  21. Kevin M. says

    September 22, 2011 at 7:17 pm

    I’d say in a normal domain auction setting – $140K or so. However, if big players are keen on one potential aspect – (that even as a typo of the .com, sex is sex, and that is the content peeps are/will be, looking for and ‘finding’) than it could go higher.

  22. RAYY.co says

    September 22, 2011 at 8:09 pm

    G.co sold for $1.5m to Google…

    So Sex.co can be between $500,000 to $2m depending on how many horny buyers bidding…

  23. Fake Robert Cline says

    September 22, 2011 at 8:25 pm

    $50 million

  24. Samantha Stewart says

    September 22, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    I believe the reserve price will likely be set at an unrealistic amount, possibly even greater than 500k. So my vote is that it will not sell. Nevertheless, it’s still a great domain that will likely benefit from a lot of sex.com typo traffic.

  25. Dave says

    September 22, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    I have SexHD.co. How much should that one go for? 🙂

  26. BrianWick says

    September 22, 2011 at 9:59 pm

    @Samantha Stewart
    .co as a .com typo is 1 in 2500 per my stats – that makes sex.co worth about 1000 time what it will sell for

  27. BrianWick says

    September 22, 2011 at 10:02 pm

    Correction:
    that means sex.co will sell for about 1000 times more than it is worth

  28. Clobert says

    September 23, 2011 at 12:20 am

    @BW: lol. I was about to ask you what is your estimate of sex.com traffic.

    One idea behind pricing in these auctions is simple. If someone has paid a ridiculous multi-million dollar price for a domain name in the past (let’s say, sex.com), what’s to lose by setting prices at those levels for at least a few names? All you need is one sucker to take the bait and you’ve brought in millions with a single sale.

    No one seems to care about sex.com’s revenues. The actual worth of sex.com, based on the income it produces, is probably less than some other more specific adult domain names. sex.com’s appeal is in the fact some (irrational?) people would pay millions to own it.

    It’s a hot potato. It’s like musical chairs.

    Getting stuck with sex.co and not being able to sell it would really suck. Unless you are truly a “domain collector”, and one who can afford to waste millions.

  29. Not the Real Bob Cline but wish I were says

    September 23, 2011 at 1:40 am

    Co is orgasmic, so thinking $5m.

  30. Not the Real Bob Cline but wish I were says

    September 23, 2011 at 2:46 am

    Name one other extension with as passionate a mascot as Professor Bob Cline.

    The Com era is over.

    Com holders bow before your new king, .CO.

    And all bow before Professor Cline.

  31. Benjamin says

    September 23, 2011 at 3:11 am

    Less than 90k.

    The only ontopic thread for Mr Robert (de)Cline and he’s not posting? Seems strange.

  32. Kevin Murphy says

    September 23, 2011 at 3:51 am

    Ignore my earlier comment. I assumed the domain was registry-reserved. I should have done a Whois first.

  33. Checho says

    September 23, 2011 at 7:08 am

    I think around 250 k

  34. BrianWick says

    September 23, 2011 at 10:28 am

    Would the real R.cOBERT .CoLINE please make the sale prediction for Sex.co

  35. Peter says

    September 23, 2011 at 4:26 pm

    500,000k

  36. ekleipsis says

    September 24, 2011 at 8:16 pm

    http://www.heavenmind.com can be sold?

  37. Joe says

    September 30, 2011 at 1:32 pm

    The .CO Landrush (Re)Auctions

    cointernet.co/blog/co-landrush-reauctions

  38. Jan says

    October 8, 2011 at 6:20 pm

    The domain was grandfathered. I expect somewhere between 350 and 450k. It’s truly a exceptional short and great domain for branding.

  39. Brad says

    October 19, 2011 at 4:04 pm

    The top bid was $60K @ TRAFFIC.

    Brad


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