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Pizza.com sells for $2,600,000

Posted by Douglas Haber on April 6, 2008

Chris Clark of North Potomac, Maryland bought Pizza.com in 1994 with the hope that the domain name would get his firm a consulting contract with a pizza company.

He closed down his firm in 2000 but continued to renew the domain name hoping that one day it would have a practical use for him.

After hearing about the $3 million sale of Vodka.com Chris decided to try his luck and see what kind of offers he would get for his domain, Pizza.com.

He paid the $20 renewal fee every year until today. Today, he sold the name for $2,600,000. That is a 130,000% profit on the name.

He says he regrets not buying more domain names back in 1994.

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