Domain name windfall

[Naga]

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.

"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

US man gets $2.6m for domain name

This is crazy! I had thought the craze for generic domain names had died down. 2.6 million just for a Pizza!!

 

[hammerhead]

Read the story behind business.com. A man who registered it in mid 90's got 7.5m $ business.com was later sold for $350m.

 

[Hacker]

now that is what i call a good investment.

 

[ultra vires]

just awesome

 

[hammerhead]

All is not good always, a man had tried to register microsoftwindows.com, he got sued by MS.

 

[varkey]

Lucky guy!!!

 

[Safin]

Thats nothing

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SEO.com was one crappy site for a long time, it ain't exactly great even now.

The lesser ones go all the time for hefty change on dnforums.

 

[Arya]

MS ambushed him....they offered him 10k...when he accepted, they put charges of selling it at higher than market rate