FreePorn.com Asking 3 million .. Name Sold.

http://www.domainnamenews.com:80/domain-sales/freeporncom-domain-sold/1310

***FS***  Everyone’s favorite type of porn is “free porn” of course.  :)

Never underestimate the power of the word FREE..  While National A-1 advertising was very wise to secure free.com so many years ago, it’s the more qualified, top compound search phrases such as free sex, free porn, free movies, free games, free music etc etc..  (and it’s a remarkably short list of poignant etceteras before you trickle into the longtail of irrelevance) which make for the strongest 2 word domains and biggest name monetizers.  There are a few thousand really meaningful two and three word “free” domain names in the coveted .com space.. this was one of the biggest. I foolishly sold a similar ‘big’ name to a friend earlier in the year..  my bad…  his good.

Comments

  1. Posted by Adam | November 22nd, 2007 at 6:27 AM

    wow i missed the bigger story. Frank sold a domain … and a good one at that.

  2. Posted by ian | November 22nd, 2007 at 7:26 AM

    I wonder what the real figure on that sale turns out to be. Whilst those free keywords generate a lot of traffic, not sure how well they convert to dollars.

  3. Posted by Pete | November 22nd, 2007 at 1:46 PM

    My specialty is window cleaning. I bought up the discount and cheap extensions of window cleaning. I see no value in the free extension for my business.

    ***FS*** You’re right Pete.. it doesn’t work for everything.. but it does for some stuff: ie. freecreditreport.com

  4. Posted by David Wrixon | November 22nd, 2007 at 4:10 PM

    “Free” was one of the keywords on my list when we were looking for IDNs. I think I have managed to nail down the best version in a few languages.

  5. Posted by Ed | November 23rd, 2007 at 9:46 PM

    Free.info is for sale at Sedo.
    It appears the minimum bid is $9,999 US

    Frank, we all know you don’t like .info (although many domainers say they make larger margins on .info sales than .com sales) but this name is interesting.

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