I just went to sex dot com
 

www.sex.com

And man what a WASTE. Who are these ppl running the show over there?

Love the paypal at the bottom, nice touch! :helpme

Unfortunately the people that have the money are rarely the ones that have the brains, but luckily for them when it comes to domains like that, it probably doesn't matter...they're probably making more than 99% of the people here just because of the massive type-in traffic that gets. Just imagine if it was in the hands of someone who knew what they were doing.

I think their traffic has gone to shit since Gary sold it to them.

Yes, its a shame, waste of site......

It seems like that domain has never been used very well.

It was when Steve Cohen was running it and taking over a mil a month

That could be the MOTHER of all tubes....

def. needs Steve Cohen back.

They should create a portal on it to all the types of online adult entertainment there is money in.

what a joke.


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What in the HELL is THAT supposed to be
Sigh

That's just awful! If they don't want to make money, at least they could create the wikipedia of sex, anything but that.
I checked the French version out of curiosity (sexe dot com), and it's quite the same level.

I agree, the mother of all tubes.

I remember a bunch of years ago I bought some traffic from the index page.. I sent it to a Escort site.. Not a single sale and I have like 30 unique's I bought

yeah, it's the biggest waste of a domain name I've seen

When Gary was running Sex.com I was making a shit load of sales from it's PPC sites. But he sold it and since the the new owners have done SHIT with it. How much was it purchased for? 11million or something. What's it worth today (as is) ?

fuck a tube site....then again who types in sex.com, i bet fuck.com gets more typeins.

a poor site

Exactly, sure it has type-ins but its likely alot 3rd graders and 3rd world countries where the only its the only dirty english word they know...:winkwink:

Sad to say, but most likely.

www.men.com and www.hot.com are worse.

good point

yeah, at least men.com has adsense running :)

I don't post very much as you can see by my post count but let me just say that this could be the most short sighted, small thinking, statement EVER made on GFY and that's a HUGE statement (nothing personal sharphead). But that is whats wrong with the adult biz overall. This AMAZING money making domain and your first thought is TUBE SITE?? LETS GIVE AWAY MORE FREE PORN on maybe the last "easy" domain where you don't have to give away ANYTHING to make money and have traffic. :2 cents:

hahahhaha

I thought you weren't a newbie Thomas?

I`d be interested to know what it earns in it`s current state as a parked page pointing to sponsored listings. It certainly looks a terrible waste.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000408182156/www.sex.com/ (1996)
http://web.archive.org/web/199712101...//www.sex.com/ (1997)
http://web.archive.org/web/20000510115657/www.sex.com/ (2000)
http://web.archive.org/web/200405210...//www.sex.com/ (2004)

I can understand the banner farms before we got into this decade but why was it never made into a kick-ass premium paysite 8/10 years ago?

youtube video of the day..........? on sex.com

C'MON!!!!
geesh, thats just wrong


spaz

big money in parked domain ... serious biz! :thumbsup

oh boy ... what a waste ... unbelievable

Should have went the route of Porn.com :2 cents:

That's parking page.

This might explain:
http://www.webmasterinter.net/2009/1...ecent-traffic/

what a shame, it could be so much bigger

It's up there with camgirls.com.

Lulz.com

I think their traffic has gone to shit since Gary sold it to them.

According to innacurate Alexa, it's 22,000th most visited domain in US.

Most of it is type-in traffic that will remain forever.

If I'm not mistaken, domain was once sold for estimated (different sources) 8-12 million $. You won't get that back with 1 type-in domain.

It's a shame as it's best and most brandable adult domain, impossible to forget so there'll be much higher returning traffic if someone runs any site on it.

looks like it gets about 40k/day of typein.

Decent but not nearly as much as I would have expected.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

There are several reasons. Primary one being, it was never meant to be a "porn" site.

Man you poeple take this shit way too seriously.

Anyways. on another note... it seems to redirect me to: http://searchportal.information.com/...inname=sex.com

WTF?

Sharphead: Once again, it's parked domain. You should really read discussion in order ;)
Once again:
http://www.webmasterinter.net/2009/1...ecent-traffic/

A premium tube on that domain would quickly grow enough to surpass the profits gained by merely promoting sponsors.

His statement was actually far more accurate than yours :2 cents:

I hate to disagree, but you think the best thing to do with the BEST domain you could own as an adult webmaster is to set up a tube site? And people are wondering WHY they are going under? You sir, just like MANY others will have NO CHOICE but to do what I did BY CHOICE years ago. I have been around for years since 2000 and seen how shady and crappy the adult biz has treated its MOST VALUABLE ASSET (the surfer/customer for those that don't know) I moved into different things away from the web because I saw a BIG fall coming. I still play around in adult but honestly more for fun than money (but making money is nice too)

You tube guys THINK you are DOING IT!! But the truth is between you STEALING AWAY CONTENT FROM SPONSORS and GIVING IT away to surfers and MANY adult sponsors STEALING it away from surfers by BANGING cards with prechecked cross sales and downright dishonest uses of credit card info in general causing so much damage and distrust (no one can even rate how many surfers will NEVER pay for porn again due to mistrust) that there will be no chance for the "little guy" to ever make it in porn again. And by the way.......most of the BIG GUYS in porn are NOT GONNA MAKE IT!

Libertine you keep on thinking that TUBE sites are it........and I wish you, and all the others that have no concept of LONG TERM the best of luck. :thumbsup

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all :)

Long term outlook: the traditional paysite model will largely be replaced by the premium tube model.

Choosing a business model that's on its way down is not thinking of the long term.

:2 cents: