BlackCrayon

Using it for porn would be a waste of the domain.

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Max Potential

What makes you say/believe that?

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BlackCrayon

Because the word/name rex has nothing to do with porn. The people typing in rex.com aren't looking for porn. The domain has great potention to sell for big bucks to big business but if its a porn site you can kiss that goodbye.

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I agree with you to a certain extent. Most of the big REX businesses have nothing to do with REX other than a brand name. People come looking for all sorts of things REX...TV's, Travel, Health, Oil, Real Estate, Dinosaurs, Money, Famous People, etc. What we have found is that a large portion of them also get there and search for sex. We have also found that through our Amazon program a large majority of products that we sell are sex related, dildos, books, videos, etc. We have had the domain on the market for sale for a while now and are fairly close to resolved of keeping it for the long term and developing it. The one thing we know for sure is that sex is a global universal and from a branding standpoint REX holds great potential for an adult/porn/sex site. We have our own ideas for development of this sort, many of which are very similar to most of the adult sites out there now, but as we continue to think it through we are defining various areas where we can be unique. We have not made any definitive decisions as of yet, like I said we are still evaulating, which is why we thought we would post here to get some feedback from folks like you already in the business. We have our own value placed on the name and should someone or some business step up to the plate and want it, currently it is available. Like I said before, should we decide to take the adult route completly with the domain we will be less concerned with the resale potential to an outside big business. That is an internal decision that we have certainly considered as part of moving forward. Thanks very much for your input, it is appreciated.

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xentech

You seem pretty stupid judging by your posts and I find it hard to believe you have acquired such a domain :|

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Max Potential

Thanks for you input, this post of yours seems pretty intelligent to me. Have a nice day friend.

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crockett

Damn sure wouldn't waste it on adult..

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So again I ask, what WOULD you do with it?

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Bama

That's exactly what I was thinking while reading this thread...

A 3 letter noun domain and fishing for ideas for what to do with it?
Doesn't comprehend the value of developing the domain to increase the value??
Considers putting adult content on the domain?

Too much fishing without any understanding of the bait - sounds more like you know the guy brokering the sale of the domain for the guy who actually owns the domain and hoping you'll get a finders fee to me.

Max Potential

The only thing I was fishing for was ideas from you folks in the adult business as we have considered an adult site. Somehow me asking questions seems to piss you off and make you bash me, which I definately don't understand, but I do apologize for as I have no intentions to piss anyone off here.

Contemplating an adult site is but one of many developmental ideas we have for the domain and since this is an adult oriented board I just thought keeping that focus would be most appropriate.

I'm sorry, but I dont understand your last paragraph there. Whatever it sounds like to you, I am the owner of the domain.

All I asked is what would YOU do with the domain, and instead of providing any valuable insight to YOUR wisdom all you've done is piss on me. Thanks.

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crockett

Because it's a good name and could be valuable.. just like someone else already posted. The min you stick porn on it.. No company will touch it.

BTW.. soon as google see it they will term your adsense account for advertising porn on the same site. Expand your mind a bit, and don't waste a good name for something you could do with any 9.99 name on the planet.

Then again several have told you reasons, but it seems you don't want to hear them.

Having a good domain in adult doesn't really mean shit.. it's about the content.. Having a good name in mainstream can make the diffrence.

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Good point Crockett, thanks, we just added the playboy link a couple of days ago to test the existing traffic, will err on the caution side and remove for now. Thanks.

Second point though, I'd love to hear from others that agree with you about the domain name. When we look at the largest traffic (alexa) adult sites they seem to all have great domains, i.e. Sex, Bookmark, Porn, Adult, Playboy, GFY and the like. Straightforward one word domains. When we look at the more obscure names the traffic does not seem to compare. We assume that the more reputable larger sites seek to gain branding with a crisp clean domain. For example bookmark.com, which used to be something way more obscure like book-mark.net (can't remember exactly if that was it). If the domain name was not important why would he pay 6 figures to get a domain like that if it was not for long term branding?

Don't get me wrong, it's not that we are not listening to the people here because we certainly are. Like I said before we have stepped back for the moment and are re-evaulating things, adult being just one of them.

Thanks

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What is the world are shittyladies and how would that apply to REX.COM?

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Bama

If I came across as a bit rude, I apologize so I'll try and make up for it a bit...

Crockett is right - yank anything having to do with adult off. Secondly, find out where and how your traffic is coming to the site. Right now, I would assume it would only be typo'd traffic (misspellings) or anyone just wondering what is on rex.com (which should be much lower).

Forget anything anyone tells you about putting up a site related to the name Rex:

Popularity of the male name Rex
Year of birth Rank
2006 814
2005 806
2004 931
2003 911

The domain can be a site for any mainstream application - it's incredibly brandable and memorable so what the site "becomes" is up to you but many factors come into play.

You say the words "we & us" but how many people comprise "we or us"? 2 man shop or a 10 man shop?

Funds - what type of $'s would you consider putting into the project? Would those $'s come from outside sources or remain an in-house funded project?

How many projects are you currently working on? (Ie is this a focused project or a pet project that gets attention once in awhile)?

What is your background? What vertical market do you know well?

Without the answers to those questions, no one can really suggest to you what to do with the domain. What you want it to be and what it realistically can be aren't the same thing.

baddog

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No problem buddy, I dont shake easily , thanks though!

Here's a little more info...

I am a newbie to the world of adult webmastering, but not to online in general. I have been involved with building and running online communities and web sites since the early 90's before the Internet was even in play and there were only dialup BBS's.

We have owned the REX.COM domain for 14 years and currently the domain gets a decent supply of steady daily type-in traffic between 400-600 uniques per day on average and spikes to 2500 a day on occasions.The traffic that comes to the domain now is generic and comes for various reasons. We have used domain parking, google, amazon storefronts and other like affiliates to take advantage of the parking monies to be made with the domain currently as we prepare to launch a more permanent site.

Originally the domain was an internet porthole to a large online dialup BBS system based in NYC started in 1990. In the end we had over 5000,000 members and provided services such as matchmaking, chat, forums, games, files and other like features. Basically the system was much like Myspace or Facebook or any one of these general interest community sites out there today, but we also had adult areas which were very actively used. (remember though this was Before windows and everything was text based and ascii graphics). We got such a large membership because we were based in NYC and at the begining everything was still modem based and we were a local call to most of our members. Due to various reasons we closed the site down around 1996 and before we had a chance to really reopen it, the Internet had come way into play and there were tons of online communities already being established with players that had lots more money and resources than we did. So we held off of the community reopen and ran the site for years to promote various artists and musicians we were associated with in other ventures. We didn't really try to make money with the domain at that time we just knew the site would eventually be something big as we figured it out. Once we discovered parking and affiliate relationships, we moved the domain in that direction which has allowed us to generate a steady flow of cash while we are still figuring it all out.

The domain name itself is in large part what we feel would be great from a branding standpoint as an adult site. It is a 3 letter dot com and is probably one of the very few that might be a perfect next selection to Sex.com, much less our domain is easy to remember and say and has an awesome dictionary definition which we also feel would feed off the domain branding, especially in the adult world. We have several other domains in other niche markets, but this particular domain really does not call for use with them.

We have already recently spent a lot of time reading the boards here, kudos to the poster that wrote the two intros to the adult world for newbies, and we have visited alot of the sites of all sorts posted throughout the forums. The information we have found here has been priceless and many thanks to the owners of gfy.com for the acess and priveledge.

What we seem to see for the most part though is a lot of porn index sites out there mostly setup as portholes for users to climb through to join a smaller pool of larger sites like BangBros, Twisty's, Hustler, Playboy, etc. Is there something we are missing , or is that the basic jist of the game here? It sure seems like you would need a tremendous amount of traffic to garner a ratio of subscribing members to these sites in order to make any real money.

We already have a few other adult domains now but little response to the affiliate clubs and sites via the banner and text linking approach, but they are growing as is our knowledge. There seems to be so much free stuff available we have a hard time understanding why even a small majority might want to join a $30 or $40 a month club, and again, it seems like it would take a shitload of people to join them in order to make any real cash. We totally understand the banner and link promotion of other sites pretty well and we actually have had people join them on occasion, but some seem to also cancel and reverse charges frequently too. We are looking more at building our own community and providing our own content, exclusive and non-exclusive. We figure why not build our own club that members can join as opposed to promoting them to join other clubs? Or at least a combination of both of sorts.

The domain name has been on the market recently and our most recently turned down offer was $110k for just the domain itself. Though it is close to what we would accept, for that money we would rather hold onto it and see what happens over the course. We have always felt that this domain in particular would be an awesome branding for something wanting to be big, really big, adult oriented or otherwise. It currently is generating anywhere from $1k to $5k+ a month using parking or google, amazon and other related type affiliate programs just based on the natural type-in traffic.

We are considering the possibilities of partnerships with the domain and/or the business behind it, which is part of the reason I signed up here, to see if there was any interest on behalf of those of you folks already in the adult online business that might be interested as we consider this domain for an adult site.

We have quite a few other mainstream niche sites that are doing great using tools such as vbulletin, photopost, coppermine, wordpress and the like. We dont see many adult sites using these same tools for the most part except wordpress which we dont understand why. Again we are still new to the adult side of this which is why I am here and checking in with you folks.

One of the ideas we have had for the domain for a while has been again to reopen a general interest community oriented site like myspace, facebook, digg, etc..., but maybe with an adult flavor to it using a combination of php based systems out there such as phpfox or even a custom site. It seems like if we can make a few grand a month as it is now, adding a community around it, even with an adult flair, might be a good fit and profitable for the long term.

So again, thanks for listening to my rambling here, its much appreciated as well as any advice or otherwise concerning adult, or input/thoughts regarding mainstream for that matter.

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Just thought I would add that we have the following additional REX domains, which we consider part of our REX package;

REXnews.com
REXshops.com
REXclient.com
REXfriend.com
REXkingdom.com
REXkingdoms.com
REXempire.com
REXempires.com
REXparking.com
REXgeneration.com
REXpets.com

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s9ann0

I would auction it on Sedo

nico-t

i watched king kong a while ago and always wondered how the hell he wants to fuck her

halfpint

You could invent dinorex grannys ..Watch our dinorex grannys get fucked !!

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DBS.US

Myself, I would auction it on Sedo with a high reserve then wait a year and buy real estate

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put it on sedo

woj

Yup, I would sell it too, 10x easier and more profitable to find some sucker to pay overpriced price for it...

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clickhappy

Then why dont you make a sexy mainstream community called Rex?
Build a huge community and in a few years Microsoft will pay you $50 million for it and add it to FaceBook.

using it for adult would be such a waste.

tangoman

I own www.xxxrex.com, (XXX King) be willing to trade it in lieu of services. tripple x rex has a good ring to it as well.

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