The Record Breaking Blog

Many visitors to my site thought that the $12M Sex.com sale in January spelled the demise of my domain. They could not have been more wrong. After weeks of hard work and sweat, I've finally finished working on the new site, whose awesome design is thanks to Vinnie from Definitive Labs. Sex.com declared war on TheRecordBreakingDomain.com and, as a result, I have up'd the ante and raised the price of my domain to $12,000,001. Many of you might even recall that the deal was originally reported as $14M, but a later report from a more reputable source (Reuters), changed that figure to $12M. I would not be surprised if the price changes again in the future. No matter what happens, though, this domain will remain the record-breaking domain, I'll make sure of it. You also have to remember that the Sex.com deal is NOT an official record, as Guinness still considers the $7.5M business.com deal the official record. Guinness only shows world records that have been proven to them, and Sex.com hasn't proved their deal. However, the Sex.com deal got so much publicity (it even came out on CNN!) that I, the owner of The Record-Breaking Domain, simply could not ignore it. In fact, the amount of publicity that sale got proved my very point: a domain that breaks a world record makes headlines all over the world! So a few weeks ago, when I was still in Uruguay, I decided to up the ante to a symbolic $12,000,001 to maintain the integrity of my domain, idea, and self. Since I cannot think of any domain name with a higher intrinsic value than Sex.com, I feel pretty confident that my my domain will remain the most expensive domain name for an incredibly long time. This has actually made my whole domain idea a lot more valuable!

You might be asking yourself what I have done about the prizes now that I have raised the price by $4.5M. Well, I won't be taking any extra money home, I'm giving the difference to my supporters and charity! You'll be glad to hear that I have DOUBLED the awards I'm giving to my supporters to a whopping $4 million, and have QUADRUPLED the amount I'm giving to Charity to $4,000,001 (they need the extra dollar more than my supporters and I)! This means I'll still be taking a very comforting $4 million home with me. It actually works out nicely: $4 million to my supporters, $4 million to charity, and $4 million for me. The biggest changes I've made to my support prizes has been to the 'Link to Me', 'Forum', and the new 'Merchandise' categories. I am now giving $1 Million to the person that refers the most traffic to me via their link, half a million dollars to a random member of my forum who has been an active participant by the time the sale is announced, and a quarter of a million dollars to the person that buys the most merchandise. That is an incredible amount of money that any one of you supporters can win! That's just my way of saying thank you for all your help so far, and that I need you now more than ever!

Let's break this damn record.