Porn.com domain sells for $9.5 million

The domain escrow firm that handled the transaction says, in a press release,

The sale is the largest all-cash domain transaction in history. It is the second largest domain sale overall after Sex.com, which sold for reportedly US $12 million in cash and stock during a private sale in January 2005.

Link. An early news account at SMH.

UPDATE: Joseph Menn of the LA Times slays all others covering this story with one mighty lede:

The free market has spoken: Sex is worth more than porn.

Link to his piece in the LAT.