What is the actual fate of sex.com ?

The main content of the article is as follow:

  1. Introduction
  2. Age of SEX.COM
  3. Current Owner Of Sex.com
  4. Rumors about sex.com

INTRODUCTION

In today’s world three letter .com or LLL.COM type domains are considered to be very premium.They are going from mid xxxx $ to high xxxx $.

Sex.com is also one of the three letter .com domain.Sex.com we all know is one of the most premium domain in the market available till now.

Estibot appraisal of sex.com gives a value of about $ 14,350,000 USD

It is a quite an astonishing fact that world’s most powerful porn domain does not contain PORN.It is still parked at the following name servers

  1. ns23.worldnic.com
  2. ns24.worldnic.com

The domain registrar currently is NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.

Without any content also sex.com has an alexa rank of about 65k this directly shows their are lot of people showing interest in this domain.

AGE OF SEX.COM

Sex.com is quite an old domain.The exact age mentioned in the ‘whois’ is

Expiration Date: 2019-10-17
Creation Date: 1995-10-18

Current Owner Of Sex.com

The domain sex.com was first registered by a person named Gary Kremen.

In October 1995, Network Solutions transferred the domain to Stephen M. Cohen, who had been trying to gain control of the domain for some time by misrepresentation, using phone calls, e-mails and forged letters. He eventually persuaded an employee of Network Solutions to change the ownership details by submitting a fake fax. After gaining control of the domain, Cohen produced an advertising-heavy site that received up to 25 million hits a day. From payments for click-throughs and other advertising, Cohen was reportedly making $50,000 to $500,000 per month. Kremen undertook steps to recover the domain, while Cohen claimed he obtained the domain legally from Online Classifieds (OCI). A five-year legal battle ensued, led by cyberlawyer Charles Carreon.

Kremen was victorious in November 2000, when Network Solutions was ordered to return the domain to the plaintiff. According to the record of Kremen v. Cohen, Cohen was ordered to pay $25 million into court; in April 2001, the California District Court awarded Kremen an additional $40 million for lost earnings, for a total judgment of $65 million.

Sex.com was reported sold to Escom LLC in January 2006. At a reported $14 million price, the domain name has widely been cited as the highest priced domain sale.

As of February 18th, 2010, the domain name has been ordered to be sold at a foreclosure auction.

Rumors about sex.com

Sex.com is rumored to have been sold for 14 million dollar to a unknown person.But still it’s unclear who is exactly the owner of this premium domain