Pizza.com Sold for $2.6 Million
April 5, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Computers
Recession? Not on the Web, baby!
A US man has sold the domain name pizza.com for $2.6m – 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.
Believe it or not, there was a time when domains were just strings of data useful only to geeks. It’s stories like these that make you wonder: what dirt-cheap digital asset today will be worth millions in the future? What will technology adoption assign value to next? Social graphs? Folksonomies? In-game real estate? Superdistribution channels? Memes? LOLcats? Sheer fucking abundance? I don’t know. Place your bets, people.
(Photo by Hale Popoki. BY-NC-SA.)
