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Porn.com Sells For $9.5 Million

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Ready, set, everybody pretend not to know the first thing about Internet porn. Good. Now that you've got your innocence face perfected, you need to know that Porn.com just sold for $9.5 million, the largest cash amount ever paid for a domain in the history of the Sinternet.

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Porn.com, which currently has no porn on it – it links to lots of it – was bought by MXN Ltd. via a domain auction put on by Moniker.com. Don't bother to search for MXN, as the results bring back little useful. If you keep up with the online porn world (of course, you don't), MXN is company behind DownloadPass.com.

"The sale of Porn.com further reinforces the growing trend of businesses that place a high strategic value on generic domains related to their industry," said Monte Cahn co-founder and chief executive officer of Moniker.com.

After an earlier target of $7.5 million was not met, Jay Westerdal, of the

Porn.com pulls in up to $4,000 daily from 26,000 clickthroughs and an average of 50,000 unique visitors. And in case you missed it that the Web, as a whole, operates at about

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