Domain Diary

March 9, 2006

Be Careful what You Wish For: The Continuing Saga of Gary Kremen and Sex.com

Filed under: domaining news — Stan Marsh @ 9:57 pm

Wow, and I thought the SAGA was over… It doesn’t look so:

Just about everyone in the domain business dreams of one day selling a name for enough money to retire on. A few weeks ago it happened for 42-year-old Gary Kremen. He sold sex.com in a cash and stock deal worth at least $12 million to fulfill a burning desire to be rich that dated all the way back to his high school days in Skokie, Illinois.

For most people that’s the happy ending and the story would stop right now. However, for Kremen the sale of sex.com is just the midway point in a journey that has already taken him to hell and back on a quest for justice that may never end.

Read more…

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave a comment

You must be logged in to post a comment.