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Hell.com Domain Name Up For Sale

Posted by Zonk on Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:46 AM
from the site-to-feature-snowball-sales dept.
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Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Internet domain name Hell.com is going up for sale, with bids of over $1 million expected, the Wall Street Journal reports. From the article: 'Sex.com sold for about $12 million earlier this year and Diamond.com changed hands for $7.5 million. The big-money domain-name sales echo an earlier boom, when Business.com fetched $7.5 million in 1999. Today's live auction of 300 names, by Seevast Corp.'s Moniker unit, includes more than a handful it predicts will generate bids of more than $1 million, including Iran.com, Auction.com and Elections.com. Now someone who buys Hell.com "has the opportunity to redefine what hell means, at least on the Internet," says Monte Cahn, Moniker chief executive.'"
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  • i remember when.... (Score:4, Insightful)

    by zxnos (813588) <zxnoss@gmail.com> on Friday October 27 2006, @11:48AM (#16610756)
    ...hell.com used to be the weirdest site. strange stuff there and fun to search around. now it is a bit dull. ....what is going to happen to all of those who purchased lifetime @hell.com emails?

  • Diamond.com could have easily gone for more (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Tweekster (949766) on Friday October 27 2006, @11:50AM (#16610772)
    They should have put up a page about the horrors of diamonds and how they are obtained.

    DeBeers would have quickly wrote a MUCH larger check.
  • 666.666.666.666 ?

    (and yes I know it's not possible under base 16. but we are talking about the supernatural aren't we?)

    • Re:so what's thier ip address? (Score:5, Funny)

      by bigattichouse (527527) on Friday October 27 2006, @12:22PM (#16611300) Homepage
      Silly.. hell is a class C with 255 layers:

      6.6.6.0 is the gateway to hell.
      [ Parent ]

      • Re: (Score:3, Funny)

        by Anonymous Coward
        It appears the US Army is one step ahead of you:

        # whois -h whois.arin.net 6.6.6.0

        OrgName: DoD Network Information Center
        OrgID: DNIC
        Address: 3990 E. Broad Street
        City: Columbus
        StateProv: OH
        PostalCode: 43218
        Country: US

        NetRange: 6.0.0.0

    • Re:so what's thier ip address? (Score:5, Interesting)

      by Ford Prefect (8777) on Friday October 27 2006, @12:26PM (#16611342) Homepage
      216.216.216.216 would be a more sensible hellish IP address - 6*6*6 and all that.

      More appropriately, it actually appears to exist - it's owned by a 'New Edge Networks' based in Vancouver, WA, USA. The machine of the beast has an ISP!
      [ Parent ]
  • Welcome to Hell [hell.com] on Earth 2006.
  • Now someone who buys Hell.com "has the opportunity to redefine what hell means, at least on the Internet," says Monte Cahn, Moniker chief executive.

    So, we can just think of the new owvers as AOL twelve years later ...

  • my prediction.. (Score:2, Flamebait)

    by tont0r (868535)
    Some political party will buy it and put their opponents all over it.
  • just to have the e-mail address satan@hell.com

    (this is creepy, 'Sympathy for the devil' by the Rolling Stones happens to be playing on my winamp right now)
    • just to have the e-mail address satan@hell.com
      A guy I know online used to use Satan@Hell.org, and had to change it because a bunch of spammers were using it as their supposed from address. I expect much the same would happen with Hell.com.

  • how someone who buys Hell.com "has the opportunity to redefine what hell means, at least on the Internet..."
    I think that goatse and tubgirl have locked up the definition of hell on the internet.

    Then again, from what I've heard, myspace is becoming a str
    • At least goatse and tubgirl are less hellish after you've already seen them once or twice. Myspace, on the other hand, has millions of users without a single remedial HTML class between them, and more join up every day to push the boundaries of sparkly "T
  • The internet is filled with Murder, Sex and violence and Myspace to begin with.

      Kinda hard to redefine isn't

  • Of course... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Stanistani (808333) on Friday October 27 2006, @11:56AM (#16610880) Homepage Journal
    Hell as defined on the Internet:
    An all-Flash site.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by dptalia (804960)
      I hate to confess it, but I actually visit an all flash site daily! And yes it sucks. But I have a polar heart rate monitor that uploads to the web, and the only way to access the data is through their all flash site.

      • Re: (Score:3, Funny)

        by micromoog (206608)
        I hate to confess it, but I actually visit an all flash site daily! And yes it sucks. But I have a polar heart rate monitor that uploads to the web, and the only way to access the data is through their all flash site.

        You support an all-flash site merely f

  • We could all chip in and buy it, just to have it redirect to microsoft.com, but they'd probably just sell even more software from the publicity.
  • It's aitcheedoublehockeysticks.com. Starting bid is.... one BILLION dollars! Mwahahaha ah *cough* *cough* *wheeze*, gotta lay off them smokes...
  • Ten bucks says it's Golden Palace. They'll do anything for publicity.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Speare (84249)
      Funny you put a wager on the concept that Golden Palace Casinos would ante up for the domain publicity. Speaking of which, are we going to see less Golden Palace marketing crud now that the USA is reigning in all online gambling activities?

  • Top Level Domain Names Don't Matter (Score:4, Interesting)

    by twifosp (532320) on Friday October 27 2006, @12:06PM (#16611034)
    In the age of search engines like google, what good do top level domain names really do? If you want to know about hell, you don't type in hell.com you go to google and type in hell. If you want to buy diamonds, you don't go to diamond.com, you search for local dealers, prices,and quality buying guides.


    Why pay 1 million dollars for hell.com when you could spend a fraction of that researching proper google indexing or hiring someone to do it for you.


    Sure there is a share of goth kids who sit around and rue their surroundings who get on the internet and type hell.com and killme.com and ihatemybrother.com but whatever... who cares about emo?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Lord_Slepnir (585350)
      Anyone that owns stock in Hot Topic

    • Re:Top Level Domain Names Don't Matter (Score:4, Insightful)

      by Barondude (245739) on Friday October 27 2006, @12:19PM (#16611250)
      Owning the domain name that matches your search keyword ranks you higher in search engines. That is why domain names still matter
      [ Parent ]

    • Cease and Desist (Score:3, Funny)

      by Speare (84249)

      As the owner of the world-famous leading branded HELLO.COM site, which is a world leader in friendly touchy-feely family photograph sharing, I must inform you that we find your site, "HELL.COM" is illegally infringing on our established trademark. Your s

  • To the winner (Score:5, Funny)

    by Azathfeld (725855) on Friday October 27 2006, @12:09PM (#16611094)
    Good luck with the domain squatting suit against Lucifer himself.

    I mean, who do you think has all the lawyers?

  • means.... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Himring (646324) on Friday October 27 2006, @12:17PM (#16611200) Homepage Journal
    has the opportunity to redefine what hell means, at least on the Internet

    women?

  • Imagine what kind of cooling system you would need. You think a Slashdotting melts servers? Just wait. Then again, I never thought I'd see a useful 4-letter domain name again, so maybe it's actually cold there now. OK. didn't have time to read all the

  • Seriously. hell.com isn't NEARLY as valuable as a business.com or sex.com. What's the real appeal? My guess is it'll fetch maybe $75k

  • If I bought hell.com... (Score:3, Funny)

    by Bryansix (761547) on Friday October 27 2006, @12:25PM (#16611326) Homepage
    I would put up a website mocking AOL.
  • business.com, sales.com, hell.com, ...etc

    These are novelties. In the age of google domain names are pointless.

    Tom

  • The asking price is... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by sethstorm (512897) * on Friday October 27 2006, @12:30PM (#16611418) Homepage
    ...one's soul?

  • Seems like a waste of money to me. (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Peregr1n (904456) <ian.a.ferguson@gmail.com> on Friday October 27 2006, @12:38PM (#16611546) Homepage
    I have to say, I have no idea who owns Business.com, Diamond.com and Sex.com or what they do with them (although with the latter example I have a fairly good idea). But if I was looking for diamonds, diamond.com wouldn't be my first port of call - I'd be more likely to search, or go to a known brand name retailer online.

    So unless somebody wants to brand their own business hell.com and spend mega-bucks promoting it, it all seems a bit pointless. After all, eBay does fine without being called auction.com; Google does fine without being called search.com. In fact, it could be argued, they do BETTER - decent, unique brand names stick in consumer's minds far better than relying on a recycled word.

    I'm sure hell.com will sell for a fair bit - but it will only be effective as a one-off marketing ploy (hey! Look! So-and-so casino has bought hell.com), no long term value in it.

  • Can't Afford It (Score:5, Funny)

    by ehaggis (879721) on Friday October 27 2006, @01:00PM (#16611946) Homepage Journal
    I may have to settle for heck.com.

  • Shocked! Alarmed! I will write an angry letter! (Score:5, Funny)

    by BeeBeard (999187) on Friday October 27 2006, @01:00PM (#16611954)
    I innocently went to the sex.com web site mentioned in the article and I was SHOCKED at what I found. I am almost embarrassed to tell you this, but I will because I know that you too will share my outrage: There were...scantily clad women prominently featured EVERYWHERE on the web site! Every time I clicked a link, more images of barely clothed females, cavorting around could be seen on my computer screen!

    You read correctly. Apparently, the Inter Net is being appropriated by these rascals and is being used to transmit filthy images of unclothed women!

    After making this alarming discovery, I spent the next 4 1/2 hours double-checking my findings by clicking the "Black", "Fetish", "Anal", and "Black Anal Fetish" links on the left portion of the computer screen. I found it necessary to do this repeatedly and vigorously until I finally grew tired, and I anticipate needing to continue on with the double-checking tomorrow.

    I estimate that this double-checking process could take upwards of the next 7 months, after which I intend to write an angry letter to the Web Masters of Slash.dot.com and the Wall Street Journal. However, most of my angry missives will be directed to the people behind this horrible, deviant web site, and I will demand that they direct me to other, similar web sites so that I may carry on my investigation.

    Yours in Christ,

    Beebeard
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