Domain Name News Articles

05-Apr-2008

• 'Auction nets $2.6 million for domain name (UPI)
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.
• '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 ...
• 'US man gets $2.6m for domain name (BBC News)
A US man sell the domain name pizza.com for $2.6m - after maintaining it for $20 a year since 1994.
• 'Are Domain Name Registrars Ready for IPv6? (CircleID)
Now that ICANN has added IPv6 name servers for the root zone , and that many registries have enabled IPv6 on their DNS servers, I thought it would have been easy to update the DNS records pointing to my domain to mention a IPv6-only DNS server. This way, we could have native name resolution end-to-end in IPv6. We are not there yet, it seems. More...
• 'Man gets lots of dough for domain name Pizza.com (EARTHtimes.org)
San Francisco - An American man has made a huge pile of dough by selling the internet domain name pizza.com that he bought for just 20 dollars back in 1994. Chris Clark, 43, of Maryland accepted a 2.6 million dollar offer for the site after a week-lo...