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Making Dough: pizza.com Sells for $2.6 Million

by Jordan Yerman | April 5, 2008 at 01:17 pm

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This isn't really cybersquatting, since Chris Clark wasn't sitting on anyone's name... just a common noun. While the commenters on the article below quibble over math, We'll get to the gist of the story: this guy made some serious money for a single domain name, and this isn't even the anything-goes dot com boom, either.

A 43-year-old man from Maryland has sold the domain name pizza.com for almost 10,000 times the price he paid for it. Chris Clark registered the name pizza.com in 1994 for just $20, and continued to pay the annual registration fee until January of this year, when he heard the domain name vodka.com had gone for a massive $3 million, and decided he wanted a slice of the pie.

"It's crazy. It's just crazy," was all Clark, who used to run a consultancy, could say after the online auction finished.

Oh em gee.

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