Pizza.com sold for $2.6 Million

Abe Olandres April 8, 2008 · 1 min read

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Having owned the domain name Pizza.com since 1994, Chris Clark finally sold it in an auction and ended up with $2.6 Million. Generic domains still raking in tons of money.

His decision to sell was prompted after learning that Vodka.com was sold earlier for $3 Million.

Don’t bother going to dotPH, the domains pizza.ph and pizza.com.ph are already taken/waitlisted.

I’ve been privy to a few other Filipinos making a killing off of selling domains. Some made a few thousand pesos while others came close to a million pesos.

Domain speculators are also hot on tracks as .ASIA domains came out to the public.

A poll we had here last February revealed people are stacking on domain names with record highs of up to a few thousands.

Anyone here sold had a domain already?

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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Name: · 13 years ago

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Trapik Media · 17 years ago

We’ve never been able to sell a .PH name, even generic ones.

We’re ready to unload Casinos.PH – how much yall think we can get for this one?

elmerzkie · 17 years ago

I am also selling my domain buyandsale.org

Into the domaineering.biz · 18 years ago

As to domaining / domaineering, you’re on the right track with geographic domains as any popular tourist area like Orlando.us, Las-Vegas.us or NiagaraFallsOntario.org should do well. .Ph ought to work well for cities located in that country. Domaineering is the business of acquiring and monetizing Internet domain names for their use primarily as an advertising medium rather than as an investment for resale as in domaining. In essence, the domain names function as virtual Internet billboards with generic domain names being highly valued for their revenue generating potential derived from attracting Internet traffic hits. As with traditional advertising, domaineering is part art and part science. Often to be the most effective as advertising tools, the domain names and their corresponding landing pages must be engineered or optimized to produce maximum revenue which may require considerable skill and knowledge of search engine optimization ( SEO ) practices, marketing psychology as well as an understanding of the target market audience. Domaineering generally utilizes a firm offering domain parking services to provide the sponsored “feed” of a word or phrase searched for. Occasionally content is added to develop a functional mini-website. Domaineers and some of those who advertise online using keywords believe domaineering provides a useful, legal and legitimate Internet marketing service. Domaineering is practiced by both large companies who may own hundreds or even thousands of domains to individual entrepreneurial minded domaineers who may only own one or a few.

Joel · 18 years ago

hey! yo! watsap.com
do you think there’s some value behind that name?

Andre · 18 years ago

The generic domains mean everything, they’re a limited resource, you think people are paying millions of dollars for nothing, they are not speculating. A good name will make or break and business.

BrianB · 18 years ago

andre, these are generic names tht mean nothing in the real world. And how can it be about traffic. Know any generic domain name that is number one in google for its own keyword?

Kalovski Itim · 18 years ago

I want to sell my name Kalovski Itim. I do not know if someone is interested before this name takes the headlines later.

Andre · 18 years ago

Its all about branding and type in traffic. A good domain name can be a store front you cant buy anywhere else for any amount.

BrianB · 18 years ago

I don’t get this domain speculation. Is the intertubes going to be regulated or what? Having a good domain name doesn’t mean crap.

elmo · 18 years ago

i owned some domains:

metrocebu.org
cebu-city.org
sitegrafix.com
bacolod-city.org

anyone interested to buy? ahahah

Andre · 18 years ago

six php figures is ok for a generic .ph though if you want to hold on to it, hold on to it.

pepster · 18 years ago

couple of offer (approx six php figures) to buy my condo.ph property but no thanks.. i sold 2 last year (a .com & .net). Btw.. im selling my condounit.net for just $xx,xxx

Andre · 18 years ago

:) generics .com.ph are for sale, though not from dotPH anymore :)

ash · 18 years ago

that’s big money… wow…

Jeffrey · 18 years ago

Animo, with that price, your domain should be popular one word dictionary names. And the “at” is killing the value. Even with just “Buyandsell.com” should just be below 100$k.