Hell.com Domain Name Up For Sale 188
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.'"
i remember when.... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:i remember when.... (Score:5, Funny)
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Heheh. I was going to suggest that this should be an online dating site. It would give new meaning to the following:
Just a thought.
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Considering that where all the slutty women go - might not be THAT bad of a life choice
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Poor life choice? (Score:5, Funny)
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And the big boss there would be rush@limbaugh.com [afternic.com] whose in-progress auction
nearly doubled [google.com] (a whopping $1500) since kicking Michael J. Fox earlier this week.
Ends in 3 days, for those who haven't decided on the scariest person they can be for Halloween.
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Does anyone remember what I'm talking about? You had to click through it sentence by sentence while it berates you for bothering to visit it.
Yeah, gimme the domain name to a website with THAT reputation. {david spade voice} Ooh look we hopped on a cool domain name! {/david spade voice}
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Diamond.com could have easily gone for more (Score:5, Insightful)
DeBeers would have quickly wrote a MUCH larger check.
Re:Diamond.com could have easily gone for more (Score:5, Funny)
That store in the mall isn't so bad. Why so angry?
The true horrors of diamond making.. (Score:4, Funny)
As for Hell.com, there's at least one little town [wikipedia.org] that could make use of the domain.
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You mean: There's a Hell: Michigan as well
you're wrong.
and for your "as well" crit, you're wrong there as well.
Re:The true horrors of diamond making.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Diamond.com could have easily gone for more (Score:5, Funny)
Then DeBeers would have hell to pay!
*drum fill*
Thanks, I'm here all week!
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Or just had the site owners killed.
so what's thier ip address? (Score:2, Funny)
(and yes I know it's not possible under base 16. but we are talking about the supernatural aren't we?)
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Re:so what's thier ip address? (Score:5, Funny)
6.6.6.0 is the gateway to hell.
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# 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 - 6.255.255.255
CIDR: 6.0.0.0/8
NetName: YUMA-NET
NetHandle: NET-6-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS01.ARMY.MIL
NameServer: NS02.ARMY.MIL
NameServer: NS03.ARMY.MIL
Comment: Army Information Systems Center
Comment: U.S. Army
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Given that the 6.x.x.x class-A address space is reserved for the Army Information Systems Center, you may be closer than you think...
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Re:so what's thier ip address? (Score:5, Interesting)
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!
Ob SP... (Score:2)
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Sheesh (Score:2)
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Could you imagine the fun of those who paid millions for the name, only to have to rebid for it in each country that maintains it's own .com .net etc. domains, mirroring or redirecting calls as they deem appropriate ;-).
There is nothing stopping the large ISP's from doing the same thing and redirecting all generic domai
Redefinition? (Score:2)
So, we can just think of the new owvers as AOL twelve years later ...
my prediction.. (Score:2, Flamebait)
Business opportunity! (Score:1)
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I guess someone will buy it (Score:2)
(this is creepy, 'Sympathy for the devil' by the Rolling Stones happens to be playing on my winamp right now)
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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.
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just to have the e-mail address satan@hell.com
... but everybody knows that the real hell is a .mil domain...
redefine hell on the internet? (Score:2)
Then again, from what I've heard, myspace is becoming a strong competitor.
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yeah well, its allready defined. (Score:2)
Kinda hard to redefine isn't
Of course... (Score:5, Funny)
An all-Flash site.
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You support an all-flash site merely for some heart-monitor something or other? Do Web standards mean nothing to you?!
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Hell on Earth 2006 (Score:1, Funny)
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Any takers? (Score:2)
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Anyone want to buy my domain name? (Score:2)
Betting on the winner (Score:2, Funny)
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Top Level Domain Names Don't Matter (Score:4, Interesting)
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?
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Re:Top Level Domain Names Don't Matter (Score:4, Insightful)
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Cease and Desist (Score:3, Funny)
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 site bears a confusingly-similar mark which could tarnish our reputation and dilute our market standing in the public mindshare.
You are hereby ordered to relinquish your domain registration and terminate all marketing which bears the infringing HELL.COM ma
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You are hereby ordered to relinquish your domain registration and terminate all marketing which bears the infringing HELLO.COM mark, or any other mark which c
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People do still market websites offine you know..
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To the winner (Score:5, Funny)
I mean, who do you think has all the lawyers?
hell.com? Bah... hell.NET is better. (Score:1)
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women?
Who wants that? (Score:2)
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 replies. Hope I'm not being redundant.
won't fetch that much (Score:2)
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And at this rate, I think in 2076 people will be bidding on wouldyoulikeasandwich.org.
If I bought hell.com... (Score:3, Funny)
never been to (Score:2)
These are novelties. In the age of google domain names are pointless.
Tom
Gee, I wonder... (Score:2)
Robert
The asking price is... (Score:3, Interesting)
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Seems like a waste of money to me. (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
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Although I doubt they could afford it, Hell, Michigan [hell2u.com] might just be interested in this one. :-)
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When you search for "diamonds" on Google, what do you think is going to be one of the first results? More importantly, if you see the first couple are http://www.geocities.com/diamonds [geocities.com] , and the third is http://www.diamonds.com/ [diamonds.com] , which result do you think you'd follow?
Redefinition (Score:2, Funny)
The Price....... (Score:2)
Behind The Times (Score:2)
WSJ is behind the times. The Register scooped them [theregister.co.uk] by over 1/2 a decade. Anyway, I guess my point is that Hell.com has been for sale for a long time and no one is biting. The domains WSJ cites obviously have earning power. Hell.com is a black sheep. It has no obvious lucrative ties, unlike sex.com or business.com. Granted, Hell.com might make a nice porn domain, I can't think of much else it could do. I'd hate to see Hell.com turn into some crappy site after all the time I spent looking at the variou
Can't Afford It (Score:5, Funny)
No, HE11.com is cheaper (Score:2)
try perhaps http://www.corpse.org/issue_10/gallery/krej/index
Shocked! Alarmed! I will write an angry letter! (Score:5, Funny)
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
Sounds Like the New Vista Site to me! (Score:2)
Ideas for the site (Score:2)
I thought Hell was for... (Score:2)
[Sigh, I am so old...]
one MEEEELION dollars! (Score:2)
No branding (Score:2)
Gates Will Buy It (Score:2)
My problem (Score:2)
Missing Link (Score:2)
Oh, blatant plug - microwave.com could be yours, at the right time, for the right money.
Hell won't sell (Score:2)
Pizza! (Score:2)
I don't know if they have international expansion plans.
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After a huge expenditure apartments and cars.com do OK but the rest were a huge waste of money. I think in the current business environment asking someone for seven figures on top of launch expenses is inviable.
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Is it really worth anything (or much)?
Within the framework of a capitalist system, "value" is measured by putting a product onto a market and letting the various forces have a go at it. However many bucks you can make in the end is the "value" of the entity in question.
Would you be willing to buy "hell.com" if you knew for sure that something like it can be sold for a million dollars? Would you consider it valuable?