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In preparation, lots of people, companies and universities snatched up domains to prevent the porn industry from tainting their brands.
DNJournal keeps a tally of the highest sold domain names. On October 12, Gay.xxx was purchased in a private sale for $500,000, the highest XXX domain sale yet.
By comparison, the highest .com domain ever sold was Sex.com in 2010 for $13 million.
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