Domain Name News Articles

04-Apr-2008

• 'Domain Name Sells For $2.6m (Addict 3D)
A US man has sold the domain name pizza.com for $2.6m (£1.3m) - 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.
• 'Md. man makes his millions with pizza.com (USA Today)
Pizza paid off for Chris Clark. The Marylander made a 130,000% profit on pizza.com, a domain name that he bought for $20 at the dawn of the online revolution. An anonymous bidder paid $2.6 million for the address yesterday. "In...
• 'Bag a Great Domain Name (Web Host Directory)
By Stephen Phillips Everyone makes mistakes, but when it comes to domains they can really cost you a pretty penny in time.
• 'Auction nets $2.6 million for domain name (Moldova.org)
The investment of $20 a year to maintain ownership of the Internet domain name pizza.com netted the U.S. owner a hefty return of $2.6 million Thursday. Chris Clark of North Potomac, Md., registered the name in 1994, when trying to snare a contract with a pizza company for his Internet consulting firm.The contract never happened, but Clark kept up the annual registration fee and sold the site ...