The domain name Orgasms.com sold yesterday on SnapNames.com for $38,166 without much fanfare and without a blog post written about it during or after the auction, which is pretty unusual for a domain that sells for that amount.
The domain has an Estibot appraised value of $143K.
It’s not exactly clear from the whois records found at DomainTools.com what happened to the domain, but it does look like the domain expired at the end of March and had new registration date of May 1st
The previous whois record showed a March 27th, 2014 expiration date with the domain owned under privacy at Moniker.com (whois record date March 30, 2014) with servers at REFLECTED.NET. The previous whois records showed a creation date of back in 2007.
The next whois record showing on Domaintools is dated May 5th, 2014 showing the registrant being ” Moniker Marketplace Pro Escrow Account” but with a new creation date of May 1st 2014 with servers now set for MONIKERDNS.NET.
I do not see any whois record where the domain was ever in redemption or pending delete status, however I have no idea of how it can get a a new registration date without it being dropped and re-registered and if it did “drop” then Moniker would have appeared to have picked it up along the lines of the way Tucows picked up selected expired domains
In any event the winning bidder is “Moscari” the auction status shows “pending payment”
In all there were over 100 bidders that had back ordered the domain but the auction had 3 bidders battling it out over $10K and 2 bidders battling from $16,666 up to the final price.
UPDATE: I was informed that the domain was owned by the same folks that own Stupidness.com and Dumb.com and they let it drop, that is not true as Eric Borgos confirmed to thedomains in an email with Raymond Hackney.
“No, I sold all 4000 of my adult domains in 2011 to one buyer. The company that bought it from me must have let it drop. I have no idea why. I am not in contact with them, it was through a broker. There was a possible trademark issue with the owner of orgasm.com. They have a trademark on orgasm.com and sent me a legal letter once.”
And no you can’t make this kind of stuff up
Obviously the associated domains speaks for themselves.
All Puns Intended.
Who needs $38K anyway
Better to have saved the $10 renewal.
I think it was pre-release domain auctioned off at SnapNames…
So you are saying that Eric Borgos of Impulse let this domain drop? I don’t believe it.
Back in 2009 it sold via SnapNames for 41,180.00 USD.
It did not drop.
It was sold by Moniker/registrar or by the owner.
Hopefully, by the owner.
But, probably not.
Updated Date: 01-may-2014
Creation Date: 26-mar-1997
Expiration Date: 27-mar-2015
what a mess you are making.
the domain has been updated on the first of May. there was no new registration.
it seems the domain was left to expired by the owner and moniker took it to auction at SnapNames.
I’m making a mess the registrant let the domain expire rather than pay $10 to renew and the domain sold for $38K
So of all the parties to the transaction, the registrant, the registrar, the auction house and the bidders I’m the guy that made it a mess?
This is a very small industry and many people do know Eric. So this name was allowed to expire and not one person in this industry alerted him with a phone call or an email. Not one person?
Many people knew he was the owner of this name and not one person said something to him. Is this the true colors of this industry?
Michael you are acting like he didn’t want to pay 10 bucks to renew the domain which are am sure is far from the truth. Probably since it was under privacy he didn’t receive the emails or some other scam. To say he let it expire because he didn’t feel like paying 10 bucks is ridiculous.
Here is the name listed on DN Journal’s sales report
http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2009/20090902.htm
Site will get about 50k visitors a month. 20% CTR. 10k will click an add that gets. .01 to .05 per month. Not great but that is the adult traffic for ya.
I spoke to Eric Borgos and he did not leave this domain drop, I emailed him and he replied:
No, I sold all 4000 of my adult domains in 2011 to one buyer. The company that bought it from me must have let it drop. I have no idea why. I am not in contact with them, it was through a broker. There was a possible trademark issue with the owner of orgasm.com. They have a trademark on orgasm.com and sent me a legal letter once.
Excellent update.
I bought orgasm.com in 2009 at a Snapnames auction, and redirected it to an adult site I was an affiliate of. About a year later I received a cease and desist letter from the owners of Orgasm.com against my Orgasms.com and OrgasmPhotos.com domains. They basically claimed that because they have
a trademark on “Orgasm.com”, they have a right to all domains with the word
“orgasm” in it that are used as an adult website. I did not agree to give them those domains, but I did agree to redirect them to a non-adult site that would not be confused with theirs, and I never heard from them again.
Since the time I sold all my adult domains in 2011, I have not heard from the buyer, so I am not sure what happened, but I doubt they would let it expire on purpose.
– Eric
This Orgasms.com auction is not an isolated case. In fact, there were at least a handful of other adult-related domain auctions over at SnapNames on that day or the day prior — all of them showing “Moniker Marketplace Pro Escrow Account”.
At one point, I had included a list of 3 or 4 of them in a weekly expired domains article that I published elsewhere. But they seemed too suspicious or, at the very least, ambiguous to report as genuine expired auctions. So when I saw Orgasms.com on my radar as well, I decided to cut them from the article.
The owner could have been selling them on Snapnames, not letting them expire. You can see a list of the 4000 adult domains I sold at http://www.thedomains.com/2011/10/05/huntingmoon-com-brokers-eric-borgos-adult-domain-portfolio-for-1300000/
– Eric
I recognize 2 others that were in the list of 4000 you sold and which also were auctioned off at SnapNames in the same way as Orgasms.com:
Unshaved.com
Unshaven.com
Borgos,
You did have a dirty mind in the 90’s! I checked out the list.
Great sale.
In other expired domain auction news, Condemnation.com was bought for a measly $950 at another drop auction house.
I wonder if that will that be used for selling condoms, or as a site to express strong disapproval?
– Eric
That would be a great one for the opposition in next year’s UK elections, where the current government is a coalition between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.
I guess time will tell but I’m still bummed I was too swamped at work to bid.
I like it a lot but a few other people I have spoken to did not as much…
Interesting. I know 2 pretty well-known actresses (both on hit TV series) who will be launching a company/web site focused on libido & orgasms. Maybe it’s them. I know they planned to launch the site this Summer.
Good name for an Oregon gas company…
all this speculation about the name being “dropped”. Wrong tree guys…
Moniker screwed up on the creation date, that much is true.
Internic still shows the original creation date of 1997. As of 3/30/2014, the name had been renewed with a 2015 expiration, so it DID NOT DROP.
The owner obviously put it up on Snapnames themselves.
Search Google for: orgasms.com
First link says “Is this expired domain name yours? Find renewal info”.
The domain expired and the owner let it go. The domain then was auctioned off as a pre-release on SnapNames.
the Whois on March 30th would indicate otherwise…
Record Date: 2014-03-30
Registrar: MONIKER ONLINE SERVICES LLC
Server: whois.moniker.com
Created: 1997-03-26
Updated: 2014-03-29
Expires: 2015-03-27
Personally I think the singular is a better as a domain name although I’m generally in favor or multiple
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