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希望购买Sex.com域名的人现在要推迟购买这个域名了。在三个债权人向法院提出请求迫使这个域名的拥有者破产之后，这个极受欢迎的域名的拍卖在本周三被取消了。

这三个债权人的投资者 Mike Mann 说，提出这个请求是为了阻止拍卖。据这个请求说，这些债权人一共要求偿还1010万美元。

Mann说，通过拍卖出售这个域名不会提高这个域名的价值。这个域名将升值。这是世界上最有价值的域名。他们在抛弃世界上最有价值的域名资产。

Escom LLC 公司据说在2006年支付1200万至1400万美元购买这个域名。但是，这家公司不能偿还债务。债权人命令进行抵押满期拍卖。这个域名拍卖的底价是100万美元。

负责处理这次拍卖的 David R. Maltz & Co 公司副总裁 Richard Maltz 说，有许多人对这个域名拍卖感兴趣。

同Mann一样，域名专家也认为Sex.com域名在拍卖中的价值被低估了。Domainer’s Magazine 杂志老板 Jerry Nolte 认为，这个域名价值1400至1800万美元。但是，域名市场与两年前相比已经显著下降了，但是，他说域名市场正在反弹。

域名市场Sedo的销售经理 Kathy Nielsen 说，她预计这个域名的价格是600万美元。她说，Sex.com是建立业务的极好的域名。Sex(性)是互联网搜索中排名靠前的词汇之一。

Mike Mann Claims Sex.com Over $10 Million in Debt

Companies claim Sex.com owner in debt over $10 million.

Three creditors filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against Sex.com owner Escom, LLC today in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California.

The petition, obtained by Domain Name Wire, lists three creditors, all of which appear to have investor and BuyDomains founder Mike Mann as the chairman. All three entities have the same address in Potamac, Maryland:

Washington Technology Associates, claiming $6,607,803.66

iEntertainment, Inc. claiming $3,476,515.02

AccountingMatters.com, LLC $7,800.00

The total claims are $10,092,118.68

This should mean that Thursday’s planned auction of Sex.com will be postponed. ……

Mike Mann Conditionally Agrees To Donate His Portion Of Sex.com To PETA

As if the whole saga of Sex.com being stolen and then given back to the original owner wasn’t a strange enough story, now Mike Mann, who is one of several reported owners of Sex.com, has agreed to donate his portion of the domain name to the animal rights activist group PETA.

As Domain Name Wire points out, PETA is known for grabbing headlines by chiming in on hot topics with off the wall suggestions had suggested in a letter that the owners donate the domain to them. Writing on their blog about the donation, they add Mann’s donation to the “Things that nonbelievers thought were never going to happen”.  I’m sure PETA didn’t really see this one coming either.

Mann has stepped up to ……

The Sex.com domain is caught up in a huge legal tangle as creditors sought to recoup their investment and auction the domain which was set for last week.  ESCOM a company partially controlled by Mann declared bankruptcy shortly before the auction which indefinitely postponed the auction of the domain.  This new little wrinkle should continue to drag things out and complicate the matter even more and bring more mainstream press interest. . . .Good or bad ?