For Sale by Auction: Sex.com (and Also Air America's Stuff)

Things are about to get hot on March 18, when Sex.com gets auctioned off. For starters, you had better bring a “$1,000,000 bank certified check” just to bid. Why the sale? It is “for default in the payment of debt and performance of obligations owed by Escom, LLC (“Borrower”), to DOM Partners LLC (“Secured Party”).” Turns out that Escom paid $14 million for the domain in ’06. And this leads us to the greatest book that we had never before heard of: Kieren McCarthy’s Sex.com: One Domain, Two Men, Twelve Years and the Brutal Battle for the Jewel in the Internet’s Crown. Am going to buy! For potential bidders, “the Collateral is being sold ‘AS IS.’” That means you get all the garbagey gifs on it, I guess! And the following week, they’re auctioning off all of Air America’s equipment. You won’t be needing the million dollar check for that one, obviously.