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He Bought the Internet's Most Notorious Domain for Almost Nothing.
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Mike Mann is the man who sold Sex.com.
An industry legend since the 90s, Mike Mann founded BuyDomains, sold Sex.com, and built DomainMarket and SEO.com. He shares how he saw value in premium domains before almost anyone else.
In this video
Choose a chapter to jump ahead- 00:00Intro
- 05:30From library books to the internet interstate: how Mike caught the wave early
- 13:00Giving away YA.com for free and watching Yahoo buy it for $100K
- 19:45Sex.com: the real story behind the theft, the manhunt, and the record sale
- 28:10Building BuyDomains to 500,000 names and the patent nobody knows GoDaddy owns
- 38:00How Mike’s data system found a $300K sale nobody else would have priced correctly
- 47:30Domain pricing psychology: why anchor pricing beats “make an offer” every time
- 57:00AI, entrepreneurship, and what Mike would tell his younger self
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