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pizza.com Sold For $2.6m

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the meanwhile-people-are-losing-their-homes dept.

f8d noted a beeb bit on the fact that the pizza.com domain name was sold for a ridiculous 2.6m bucks. Can there be a bubble and a recession at the same time, or do the two cancel each other out like Penn & Teller?

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  1. Moral of story by FoolsGold · · Score: 4, Funny

    Buying a ton of domain names on the cheap in the mid 90's would have been a sound investment.

    1. Re:Moral of story by MrNaz · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'll definitely take that moral to heart for the next time the 90's come around.

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    2. Re:Moral of story by smallfries · · Score: 2, Funny

      I can't wait for that Web12.0 bubble. That's gonna be some good bubble...

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    3. Re:Moral of story by Minimalist360 · · Score: 1, Funny

      anyone want to buy sarcasm.com? that's gotta be worth at least $1mil.

    4. Re:Moral of story by Jafafa+Hots · · Score: 2, Funny

      I got rid of immunotherapist.com when I discovered that if you read it wrong you might think it was a medical-related site.

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  2. Enhance Your Sausage! by CheeseburgerBrown · · Score: 4, Funny

    If it isn't a pizza company, I say we abandon domain names and go back to numeric addressing.

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    1. Re:Enhance Your Sausage! by LoadWB · · Score: 4, Funny

      Frankly I've never used a "search" I just fire up my Intarweb close out a couple of advertisements and today's news then a couple more advertisements then another then spend some time changing my passwords on my bank accounts because my bank says they had to lock my account (thank goodness they're looking out for me because I didn't even remember about my account with the National Bank of Zimbabwe and I know its really secure because they ask for so much of my personal information to prove its me) and I am also lucky enough to get most of the shopping I need done from the mail in my Inbox (I haven't had to go to the store for medicine or vitamins or butt paste in ages) then type something into the "keyword" box and I get what I need but if it doesn't show anything then I figure it doesn't exist or I really didn't need it anyway.

      LOLZ

  3. Re:speeling and gramma by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tag it!!

    therenottheir

  4. Why is that so ridiculous? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've PERSONALLY been so hungry I couldn't make it to google, typing "pizza" directly into the URL bar AT LEAST 50,000 times, spending $20+ dollars each time. If there's a couple of more people out there like me, they've already broken even.

  5. Re:To a big company it's a few dozen TV adverts... by BountyX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah $2.6 million dollars? No problem, I have a couple of euros in my pocket....

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  6. Unfortunately for the seller ... by BabyDave · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... the domain transfer took more than 30 mins, so it was free.

  7. They could have saved there money... by memorycardfull · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only their was a homophone for pizza.

    1. Re:They could have saved there money... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      If only their was a homophone for pizza. There going to be so pissed, your never going to get moderator points!
  8. Re:Actually, it really does make sense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, the average argument and supporting evidence of a American.

  9. Re:no their can't! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ahhhh yah that reminds me of the lukrative mis-spel domain market
    Thats Y Im thinging of registraring piza.com, pizzza.com, and pissa.com
    It won't be 2.6 million, but Im shure I can get 1.3 mil

  10. Re:Two Americas by Minimalist360 · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's so 1958. Don't be such a square.