Pizza (.com) sells for $2.6 million
14 years ago, Chris Clark, who now runs an American software company, bought the ‘pizza.com’ domain for just $20. He thought it would help him get a contract with a pizza company…
Well I guess it did in the end, but a much better one than he was originally hoping for - after hearing illion ithat ‘vodka.com’ was sold for $3 million in 2006, he decided to sell it in a week long auction handled by the domain name and website resellers Sedo.
Some more big sales:
- Business.com sold for $7.5 million in 1999.
- VIP.com was sold for $1.4 million in 2005 to a gambling company called Leisure & Gaming
- According to different sources, sex.com was sold for $11m, $12m or $14million to Boston-based Escom LLC
- Diamonds.com was sold for $7.5 million, and sells diamonds
- Beer.com was sold for $7 million
- AsSeenOnTV.com was sold for $5.1 million in 2000
- Shop.com was sold for $3.5 million
- Wine.com was sold for $2.9 million in 1999
- Creditcards.com was sold for $2.75 mn 2004 to a marketing company in Austin, Texas.
On buying CreditCards.com, ClickSuccess CEO Dan Smith said,
“It’s like prime real estate, there’s only so much of this real estate to go around. I feel like we bought a slice of Park Avenue,”
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I wish i had been around when .com domains first became available. THese days you cannot find any available domains on the market.
Comment by web design wakefield — 12 May, 2008 @ 9:52 am