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Gay.Co Sells For $25K As HuntingMoon.com Adult Domain Auction Nets $148K

October 9, 2011 by Michael Berkens

The Huntingmoon.com organizers just released the results of the adult domain name auction they held last week.

In all $148,274 of domain names sold, led by Matures.com for $30K and Gay.Co for $25,000

Gay.co is an interesting sale since Gay.XXX just sold last week for $500,000.

That means  the .XXX version sold for 20X as much as the .co in the same week.

Like I said interesting.

Congrats to all buyers and sellers and the full results are below:

Matures.com    $30,000

Gay.co    $25,000

BlackCock.com    $12,500

Watched.com    $10,000

HotGuys.com    $8,500

Pubes.com    $7,500

HugeCock.com    $7,500

NakedMen.com    $5,000

NakedGuys.com    $5,000

BigBush.com    $5,000

WifeVideos.com    $3,500

BBWPussy.com    $3,000

HotBooty.com    $3,000

3Dpornvideos.com    $2,500

AssBanging.com    $2,500

BlackTeenPorn.com    $2,500

GrannyMovies.com    $2,500

BigDickSex.com    $2,750

CelebrityPussy.com    $2,120

PrivateWebCams.com    $2,010

FeetMovies.com    $2,000

VideoSexChat.com    $1,260

NakedCartoon.com    $1,000

HDPornReview.com    $750

HardcoreAmateur.com    $169

FatAssTube.com    $150

MalePornTube.com    $150

BarebackFucking.com    $100

NakedCinema.com    $39

SexWorker.net    $32

FeetFucked.com    $28

BrutalCocks.com    $27

JustBush.com    $24

AssTryout.com    $22

AssTryouts.com    $22

TrueTrannys.com    $21

CuteMoms.com    $19

HookupGirls.com    $19

POVsluts.com    $15

CreamPieMilf.com    $9

FratFests.com    $9

BoobTeam.com    $7

GiantRods.com    $7

MilfExams.com    $3

BreastCrew.com    $1

CreamPieAttack.com    $1

FacialPrincess.com    $1

FratSexParty.com    $1

FriskyDate.com    $1

FriskyDates.com    $1

HotChunkers.com    $1

InterracialMeetups.com    $1

RockHardBoys.com    $1

SexyChunkers.com    $1

TrannyVote.com    $1

CrazyNakedGirls.com    $1

Filed Under: .CO, .XXX, Domain Auctions

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. Joe says

    October 9, 2011 at 3:16 pm

    Gay.CO selling for $25k just confirms what we already know: there isn’t any .CO bubble with illogically inflated prices, which is absolutely a positive sign. On the other hand, there could be a bubble with .XXX…

  2. MHB says

    October 9, 2011 at 3:26 pm

    Joe

    How can there be a bubble in .XXX it hasn’t even had its launch yet?

  3. [] [] good domains [] [] says

    October 9, 2011 at 3:32 pm

    this kind of domains can’t reach high selling prices

    there are tons of similar domains

  4. Robert Cline says

    October 9, 2011 at 3:45 pm

    .Co

    is for companies, entrepreneurs, individuals, blogs

    it is not a sexually tinted/charged extension.

    so gay.co sold only for its

    LLL

    value than anything else.

  5. TeeKay says

    October 9, 2011 at 3:47 pm

    The question remains:
    How much are short or number-only domains worth?
    030.co
    030.me
    01230.info
    01230.eu
    99ct.net

  6. Joe says

    October 9, 2011 at 4:18 pm

    @MHB

    Not now of course. I’m saying a bubble in .XXX in the coming months wouldn’t be very unlikely, given the particular nature of the extension.

  7. Jp says

    October 9, 2011 at 4:21 pm

    Gay.xxx is more targeted for branding purposes. I think in all new extensions there will be a few winners. We see this phenomenon with .me (date.me, stuff like that). New extensions won’t be like .com though where any decent string is a go.

    Let’s make another comparison (all things being equal right of the dot):

    Dreidels.Hannukah vs Dreidels.Christmas

    (may have spelled that wrong)

    Or

    Kosher.Passover vs Kosher.Christmas

  8. tvg says

    October 9, 2011 at 4:42 pm

    The question remains …

    How do the same .CO spammers and promoters find there way into the blog comment sections so quickly after an article mentioning .co is published ?

    Anyway, some pretty solid .com sales in the list.

  9. TheBigLieSociety says

    October 9, 2011 at 5:08 pm

    “How can there be a bubble in .XXX it hasn’t even had its launch yet?”
    =====

    Good point. The ICANN XXX is an sTLD. That will draw some players in.
    That is what ICANN was set up to do.

    “launch” for some people will be Post-ICANN Market Trials

    As an example, .BIZ may “launch” at some point.
    It is not clear there is much interest in .BIZ or other TLDs in terms of the real “launch”.

    A **real launch** includes Digital Wallets and Digital Currency for the TLD

  10. Tom G says

    October 9, 2011 at 5:08 pm

    Interesting. A niche TLD commands a very high price for a second level name closely associated with the context.

    I wonder what that could mean for online.poker, hotels.nyc, hybrid.car, vacation.deals, divorced.dating, investment.fund, stock.quote, superbowl.tickets, fine.art, math.game . . etc.

    Why didn’t this work for .travel, .museum, .jobs? The model, marketing, execution.

  11. em says

    October 9, 2011 at 5:38 pm

    I agree with Joe. .XXX is looking quite Bubblish. Of course we can’t say for sure for months to come, but when you have very inflated sales like Gay.xxx, it looks a bit problematic.

    Gay.co for $25000 is a nice sale. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say the .co clan won’t cry over the fact they haven’t cornered the adult market.

  12. MHB says

    October 9, 2011 at 5:40 pm

    Tom

    You know the answer to this

    It didn’t work for .travel because registration was restricted to licensed Travel Agents, not to hotels, airlines or anyone else in the travel industry but just travel agents

    How many museums are there in the world 5,000?

    Well that would be the max number of registrations

    .jobs another extension that was overly restrictive

    The more restrictive the TLD the less successful it will be

    Comparing them is like Apple’s to Kiwi’s

  13. TheBigLieSociety says

    October 9, 2011 at 5:46 pm

    “The more restrictive the TLD the less successful it will be”
    =====

    Anything ICANN touches will be classified as highly “restrictive”

    With Peer-2-Peer DNS no one can destroy your years of investment in domains

  14. RAYY.co says

    October 9, 2011 at 5:56 pm

    @Tom,

    “…I wonder what that could mean for online.poker, hotels.nyc, hybrid.car, vacation.deals, divorced.dating, investment.fund, stock.quote, superbowl.tickets, fine.art, math.game . . etc….”

    It means there are millions of different versions of extensions…

    Most likely confusing with variable versions as shown examples below:

    online.poker
    online.pokers
    poker.online
    pokers.online
    onlinepoker.com
    pokeronline.com
    onlinegames.poker
    onlinegamble.poker
    onlinepoker.casino

    It can be very difficult to have a distinctive/recognised brandings…confusing…

    etc….

  15. David says

    October 9, 2011 at 6:10 pm

    Not sure about there being a .xxx bubble coming. Note that none of the .xxx domains in the auction sold !

  16. Tom G says

    October 9, 2011 at 6:13 pm

    @MHB

    Yes, I answered my question with ‘model’, I wasn’t genuinely asking. Thanks for clarifying, though.

    XXX is making a strong case for niche TLDs is my point, really.

    ROTD will do very nicely.

  17. RAYY.co says

    October 9, 2011 at 6:15 pm

    Price stat record:

    gay.co $25000
    onlinecasino.co $100000
    taobao.co $115000

    gay.xxx $500000

    Looks like .xxx is a winner…because online porn business are booming….

    Everybody in the world watch porn…I just watched porn last night…spend 4 hours …lol

  18. MHB says

    October 9, 2011 at 6:44 pm

    David

    I didn’t follow it that closely

    I see one domain sold for $30K and one sold for $25K

    I think all the .XXX reserves we above that

    Obviously not a big auction for high priced domains

  19. Christopher says

    October 9, 2011 at 7:58 pm

    “Obviously not a big auction for high priced domains”

    probably one of the more important points made here….and maybe why the higher reserve domains didn’t sell and gay.co didn’t sell for more…maybe the big spenders stayed home…or forgot their wallets 🙂

  20. TheBigLieSociety says

    October 9, 2011 at 10:36 pm

    “maybe the big spenders stayed home…or forgot their wallets”
    ===

    Maybe people are becoming more educated via expert assistance ?
    Maybe they are starting to see what it will really cost to **own** a domain ?
    …and to get it widely resolved…

    XXX Founders have painted big targets on their chests – “High Roller” – Charge me to resolve my domains

    CES in Vegas should be interesting this year…as people pay to be on the Set.Top.Box DNS TVs

  21. Ms Domainer says

    October 9, 2011 at 11:16 pm

    *

    No, Rayy, not *everyone* watches porn.

    IMHO, .xxx is just another .mobi in the making. In fact, .xxx offers less promise than .mobi, which at least offered the possibility of cornering the mobile communication industry. Unfortunately, the timing was bad as the iphone pretty much squashed .mobi’s ambitions.

    You can bank on the fact that .xxx will be blocked by schools, businesses, and homes.

    If you can’t get in (excuse the pun), .xxx webmasters won’t be able to spread their “content” to people who don’t want it.

    The only people getting rich off .xxx are the registry and its deep-pocket cronies.

    These large sales always seem to happen during sunrise and landrush periods and then peter out (sorry, another pun) after the pump and dump period (the puns just keep on coming).

    Don’t forget history. Does Flowers.mobi ring a bell?

    *

  22. Alan says

    October 9, 2011 at 11:36 pm

    @Ms Domainer:
    You can bank on the fact that .xxx will be blocked by schools, businesses, and homes.

    Excellent point, I just hope that the people who invest in this stld will do so wisely, as I
    doubt if you will get a lot of unique traffic with something like realestate.xxx or usedcars.xxx.

  23. RAYY.co says

    October 9, 2011 at 11:52 pm

    @Ms Domainer

    “…These large sales always seem to happen during sunrise and landrush periods and then peter out …”

    You probably right… gay.xxx sold $500000, is used as a stimulus game play to inflate the price for publicity and marketing and jack up the price reputation…

    Pump up the price…

  24. TheBigLieSociety says

    October 9, 2011 at 11:55 pm

    “You can bank on the fact that .xxx will be blocked…”
    “I doubt if you will get a lot of unique traffic”
    ====

    The TRAFFIC will be from the user to the DNS in their Set.Top.Box
    at that point the .XXX names can be resolved (for a fee)

    There could be several .XXX Registries and those can be displayed for the user
    Ads controlled by the ISP can be displayed as the user selects .XXX providers

    The user could also be offered the chance to block domains for a fee (or a deduction from their CyberCurrency Account)

    A lot of user interaction can occur (from the Set.Top.Box) before the back-end DNS Registry is sent any queries (i.e. Traffic)

  25. Jack says

    October 10, 2011 at 12:02 am

    Just interesting to see .CO back in the spotlight again.
    Decent sale numbers.

  26. Cartoonz says

    October 10, 2011 at 4:31 am

    “You can bank on the fact that .xxx will be blocked by schools, businesses, and homes.

    If you can’t get in (excuse the pun), .xxx webmasters won’t be able to spread their “content” to people who don’t want it.”

    Operative term being “people who DON’T want it”. Those people won’t pay for that sort of content anyway, so it does not matter to the .xxx community. People are not buying porn from school computers and libraries at least not in any meaningful volume… so those blocks won’t matter.

    Now… if an entire State (like Utah) blocks it, then maybe it would make a dent in the revenue model… ’cause that is a big seller there.

    I’m not a big fan of the whole .xxx debacle but I’m at least realistic about it. GAY.XXX is likely to laugh at how little they paid for that domain.

  27. FacebookGoogleMicrosoft.com is unregistered & available! says

    October 10, 2011 at 10:29 am

    Quick Clobert Rhine, grab it!

  28. Johnny O'Neill says

    October 10, 2011 at 3:53 pm

    It all seems pretty logical to me. How much do you think G.xxx will fetch? you think Google will pay several million dollars for it like they did with G.co…? (and use it)
    …
    wait for it
    …
    No, Lol.

  29. dcmike77 says

    October 10, 2011 at 4:35 pm

    Mike,

    Can you share your top pics for the upcoming TRAFFIC auction?

    Thanks
    -Mike

  30. MHB says

    October 10, 2011 at 7:06 pm

    Mike

    1st things 1st.

    Poll is opening up tomorrow morning

  31. HuntingMoon says

    October 11, 2011 at 1:28 am

    hello domainers, we just sold CelebrityTube.com for $12,500 to bring the total up to $160,774


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