Domain Name Sells For $2.6m
Posted by bmaher via BBC News on 04 April 2008 - 23:33 · 21 comments & 9220 views
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#1 Posted by jonnytabpni on 05 Apr 2008 - 00:11
- You know, a single day doesn't go past without me thinking about what if I had done this...
I always wish I had done that years ago.
If only I had....If only I had.....
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#2 Posted by Dazer on 05 Apr 2008 - 00:28
- I had the same feeling about google shares.. It's just a pity I was 14 or something when they went public and had no money to buy them.. But I would have made a nice little profit there.
And on topic- Who the hell buys pizza.com for $2.6 million!? -
#2.1 Posted by michael.dobrofsky on 05 Apr 2008 - 00:35
- (Dazer said @ #1)And on topic- Who the hell buys pizza.com for $2.6 million!?
An absolute sucker
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#2.3 Posted by kimatg on 05 Apr 2008 - 02:23
- Go check by yourselves.
http://pizza.com/
lol
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#3 Posted by rseiler on 05 Apr 2008 - 03:20
- I thought measures were put in place to eliminate cyber squatting, or whatever it's called. That is, if you don't have a legitimate use for the domain, you can be forced to give it up (and not for millions of dollars, either).
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#3.1 Posted by SOOPRcow on 05 Apr 2008 - 04:35
- I don't think he was really cyber squatting as there is actually a site.
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#3.2 Posted by travelcard on 05 Apr 2008 - 08:51
- You can't be a cyber squatter on a generic term like pizza.com - only on something using a company name, like pizzahut.com for example.
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#3.3 Posted by nunjabusiness on 05 Apr 2008 - 18:28
- (travelcard said @ #3.2)You can't be a cyber squatter on a generic term like pizza.com - only on something using a company name, like pizzahut.com for example.
Correct - I would call the guy a very clever mofo. I bought and sold a number of domain names over the years but only dreamed about this kind of thing. Remember the guy who had sex.com got $14 mil.
Sigh!
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#4 Posted by atari800 on 05 Apr 2008 - 20:14
- I wonder if porn dot com is paying $20 a month
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#4.1 Posted by nunjabusiness on 06 Apr 2008 - 15:02
- (atari800 said @ #4)I wonder if porn dot com is paying $20 a month
porn.com was sold last May for $9 million
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#5 Posted by WICKO on 05 Apr 2008 - 21:26
- Mr Clark has admitted regretting that he did not purchase more domain names in the 1990s, when many (now) popular domain names were still available.
2.6 million dollars wasn't enough for you, eh? -
#5.1 Posted by chris4 on 06 Apr 2008 - 02:51
- Well if you had just sold a domain for $2.6mil .. wouldn't you want to sell 10 more for the same price?
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#6 Posted by time2flex on 05 Apr 2008 - 22:43
- pepperoni.com anyone?. I have it on sale, today only for $1.6 mil.!!
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#6.1 Posted by nunjabusiness on 06 Apr 2008 - 15:08
- No, you don't.
I imagine Hormel has already made a pretty good offer for it before.
at the bottom of the main page:
"A WebMagic Production © 2008 We are not looking to sell this domain. "
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#7 Posted by evo_spook on 06 Apr 2008 - 23:44
- I think people should have to use a domain name or lose it.
I've lost count of the amount of times I've wanted to register a name and its being taken, but go to the site and nothings there, that should be illegal -
#7.1 Posted by macrosslover on 07 Apr 2008 - 00:56
- but kept paying the $20 annual fees for maintaining the domain, which he also used to sell advertisements.
he used the site so it wasn't just a bare site. -
#7.2 Posted by C_Guy on 07 Apr 2008 - 15:13
- That's like saying if someone buys a lot you think they HAVE to put a house on it. That's not the way the law works. You pay for something, you are entitled to let it just sit there if you want. Unless you're a cyber squatter, if you own a domain name, do anything you want with it, even nothing.
If the domain you want is gone think up a new one.
Chris Clark, 43, accepted the offer from an anonymous bidder after a week-long online auction. Mr Clark registered the domain name in 1994, when the world wide web was just starting. He had hoped that pizza.com would help to get a contract with a pizza firm for his consulting company.
He sold his business in 2000, but kept paying the $20 annual fees for maintaining the domain, which he also used to sell advertisements.
Mr Clark has admitted regretting that he did not purchase more domain names in the 1990s, when many (now) popular domain names were still available.