43-year-old Chris Clark from Maryland has sold the domain name “pizza.com” for $2.6 million.
He registered the domain in 1994, in the eve of the Internet era. Back then he paid $20 for it and kept paying the annual fee until recent. Later on, he and a friend made it a profitable pizza directory and advertising site that brought in more than the $5,000 it costs to maintain.
In January of this year, Clark heard that the original owner of vodka.com just got $3 million richer by selling the domain and decided to put pizza.com for auction as well.
The auction debuted with an offer of $100. Much to his surprise, one week later came the offer that was to end the bidding: $2.6 million, 13,000 times more than he originally paid.
“It’s crazy, it’s just crazy. That amount of money is significant,” said Clark from his home in North Potomac. “It will make a significant difference in my life, for sure.”
One certain thing is pizza sure brought this man a lot of dough.
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