A slice of victory: Pizza.com sells for big bucks

A Maryland man has sold the Web domain pizza.com for millions of dollars. Chris Clark, of North Potomac, says he purchased the name for $20 about 14 years ago.

By: Associated Press | WSLS
Published: April 04, 2008

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POTOMAC, Md. (AP) - A Maryland man has sold the Web domain pizza.com for millions of dollars.
Chris Clark, of North Potomac, says he purchased the name for $20 about 14 years ago. He sold it Thursday at an online auction for more than $2.6 million. To celebrate, he and his family held - what else? - a pizza party.
The 43-year-old native of Queens, N.Y., ran a Web site-consulting service in 1994 when he bought pizza.com hoping to persuade a pizzeria to do business with him. But there weren't any takers, and Clark maintained the Web site as a pizzeria directory ever since. He decided to sell after hearing about other big sales involving domain names.
The bidding opened March 27 at $100 on the Web site Sedo.com. The winner remains anonymous.