Domain Pizza.com sold for $2.6 million
A US man has sold the domain name pizza.com for $2.6m – after maintaining the site for just $20 a year since 1994. Chris Clark, 43, accepted the offer from an anonymous bidder after a week-long online auction. It’s crazy, it’s just crazy,” Mr Clark, who lives in North Potomac, Maryland, was quoted as saying by the Baltimore Sun newspaper. “It will make a significant difference in my life, for sure,” he added. Mr Clark registered the domain name in 1994, when the world wide web was just starting. He had hoped that pizza.com would help to get a contract with a pizza firm for his consulting company.
He sold his business in 2000, but kept paying the $20 annual fees for maintaining the domain, which he also used to sell advertisements. In January, Mr Clark decided to sell it after hearing that another domain – Vodka.com – was sold for $3m in 2006. “I thought, ‘Why don’t I just try to see what the level of interest is?’” Mr Clark said. “If someone’s willing to pay that much for Vodka.com, maybe there’s more interest in pizza.com.” The online auction was launched on 27 March. The first bid was $100, jumping to $2.6m a week later. Having accepted the latter offer, Mr Clark hopes to get his windfall in a few days’ time when the transaction is completed.
Source: BBC
Comments(73)
that’s just crazy. stoner crazy.
omg o_O
@ protoculture… protoculture as in the psytrance artist?
I didn’t know the Turtles had access to that kind of money
Damn.
I need to register some rising companies name before they do.
(It’s pretty hard to find any regular words like “pizza” that are available to register as domains.)
@arkguil, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoculture_(anime)
Only in America can you get paid buku cash for something that you don’t really own.
hmmmmm i wonder how much porn dot com cost
@8 – porn.com: $9.5 million, May 2007
i could really use 2.6 Million
Lucky Bas***d
Why would you pay 2.6 million to create this….
http://www.pizza.com/
?????????????????????
Its an awful website!
@4 ha haa haaaaaaaaa very clever…nice one…
I wonder how much my ‘im-stalking-you.com’ is worth???
And my ‘genitalwarts.com’
I LOVE pizza. Best food ever
If I’d only thought about buying all these domain-names 15 years ago *dreaming*
B-st-rds!!
@11 My guess is that pizza.com is run as a functional site about pizzas so some MegaCorp can’t easily lawyer the owner’s ass off and steal his domain. If it doesn’t start to redirect to a corporate website sometime soon then the buyers were clearly morons.
fair play to the dude
an after all that talk of pizza
im hungry
how much http://www.rlslog.net price? is it worth a million?
I wonder if all that money spent on domains ever returns…
Pizza.com & vodka.com don’t seem that special right now,
vodka.com just got a newsletter for now. Nice investment…
I got a nice & short domain *_* with over 1700+ daily hits hehe…Pizza.com gonna get sliced & diced hahahaa
@4
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Oh man, now I’m hungry
time to get some domains then
mmmm… donuts
thanks for the interesting news about a scumbag cybersquatter who is now a wealthy scumbag. chris clark is the type who would tattoo spam advert’s on his own children’s faces just to make some money
@ turd ferguson jr
jealousy is a terrible thing. life isn’t turning out like you wanted it to is it turd. ha u are a turd.
He didn’t do anything wrong or even unethical. It wasn’t like he took someone’s name like many other cybersquatters.
this guy registered his domain before some of you snot nose kids were even born. so stfu and stop hatin’
i woder if they deliever in afghanistan…
RLSLOG value: http://www.sitevaluecalculator.com/result.php?domain=http%3A%2F%2Frlslog.net&x=0&y=0
However,personal value is well….personal.
Well done to him. If he hadn’t of created that domain then some giant pizza company would of done. I would rather see someone get rich off a giant company than see a giant company get gianter. :p
@4
ROFL You’ve a fantastic sense of humor!
Donno, that website is clearly wrong. It claims pizza.com to be $1000 and rlslog $11000. By my estimates (2.6m (value of pizza.com) x 11 (the difference)), rlslog.net is actually worth $286m.
Or a more conservative estimate with the ‘.’ included: $28.6m.
could you imagine if you’d done this with a bunch of different names back in the early 90’s? Like say, ford.com, dodge.com, coke.com, boeing.com, etc… you’d be so stinkin rich you’d sleep on a bed made of money.
I want to buy RLSLOG for $286m.
someday the releaselog.net will be sold for 1 billion.
@34
ahahah, that’s a cool one man! but if you buy it, you will have the cops looking for you, right then… xD
@35 hooked on hookers
I think you mistook the word sold for sued :p
digg.com
The estimated value of digg.com is: $24,801,011
http://www.sitevaluecalculator.com/result.php?domain=http%3A%2F%2Fdigg.com
pizza delivers
@37
and another one… Yes, but if the site could be sued for 1 bilion (which is a pathetical value
) the staff would be in some difficult problems… i mean, i just dont wanna be in their situation… 
@31…Yea your estimate could be valid.But Pizza.com was bid on.And actual value and auction price are 2 different things.I checked another calculator that quoted rlslog.net @ $116.00us.But i think its cool to be able to turn an investment into a windfall.Hope rlslog never sells.Or I’ll be back to trolling and filtering the junk on isohunt and tpb again lol.
Actually cyber squatters – registering domains for no reason other than to extort money out of companies later – can be challenged in the courts. It just so happens Pizza.com is generic enough that no one company can say it is infringing on their name. If you registered disney.com and tried the same stunt you’ll find yourself in court and probably lose.
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links, anyone?
rapidshare better…
I’ll wait for the aXXo rls.
The estimated value of facebook.com is: $859,708,436.
@(31)No-Neck: may this calculator is based on how many visitors the site has, and that’s why pizza.com worths less than rlslog. Everything worths as much as you can sell it, so if someone is enough stupid to pay for this domain, well, it isn’t our problem.
Rapidshare.com = $232,500,657
Fingers crossed that my CheezeburgerWithOnionsAndFries.com domain does as well…
cowabunga dude
Exactly dude, I rekon it was just two stoners who got confused on the internet and thought they were bidding for pizza and it just got out of hand
google.com is worth $1,550,001,595…
http://www.sitevaluecalculator.com/result.php?domain=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com
myspace: $2,325,001,350
The estimated value of cnn.com is: $1,451,624
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@53
your missing a few more digits i think.
no
a weird site: The estimated value of bbc.co.uk is $240,250,501
The estimated value of http://www.rlslog.net is: $11,731
Your website at http://www.rlslog.net is worth $826,613.00
http://directory.sootle.com/website-worth/
The estimated value of your comments is $0.99
Slow day, eh? Where are the torrents?
DONT CARE !!! POST SOMETHING NEW
Kind of curious, but what are the chances of this being posted:
GrindHouse THEATRICAL CUT (2007) DVDRip XviD AC3-AxelAsher
I really do want some Megashares for this one.
georgebush.com – worth $652 pmsl
margesimpsonnude.com – $390??? thought i jus made that up…
biggerpenis.com – $537 almost as much as Mr Bush…
Hmmmm think ill make up some more till i find one thats worth a few bob….
@59 Yuto
If that’s the case, I need to post 100,000+ times.
NBC.COM only worth $12,354…doubt it…
http://www.congitive-enhancement.com and
http://www.congitiveenhancement.com are both availiable. I guess they could be worthwhile investments although by the time they’d be worth anything domain names will probably be obsolete and web pages will be created on demand by thought, displaying only explicitly wanted info.
The new owner of pizza.com is currently negotiating a domain sale with “Domino’s” worth an estimated $56 million.
When asked to comment, the previous owner was quoted as saying:
“D’OH!”
lmao!
Imagine how many people type the search word “Pizza” in Google. The site may be rubbish, but it has advertisements pasted all over it.
I know someone who owns a very popular “Domain name” (he’s not a nice person, so i won’t give him free advertisement) he does nothing with it, the site is basically empty except for a few ads, and he makes 2k a month from it. So basically… he makes 2K a month for doing NOTHING. I own 3 sites, and only update them once a month. All together i make just under 1k a month. It’s a real nice monthly bonus. Keeps a smile on my face knowing I’m getting money for free =)
@booya
you don’t make a 1k a month for keeping 3 sites with advertisement. Bullcraap.
darn knew I should have got the domain google.com, my last name is google.
do you wnat to enjoy your life now?
what do they do to relax theirselves?
want to know,come here.ill show you what i search?
look at the super star,listen some music,diy-t-shirt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sfJhhN1rcA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V19SvSUYYOs
http://www.diy-t-shirt.com
@71
if you had the domain google.com…guess what? The search engine giant would have just used a different name. The name ‘google’ only has significance because Google themselves made it significant. God. Use your brain.
@71 – you think you got it bad. My last name is Rlslog.
And if that weren’t bad enough, my middle name is Yahoo.