Back in 1994, Chris Clark of North Potomac, Maryland, registered the domain name pizza.com, thinking it might bring in some pizza business to his consultingcompany. If it did, that never amounted to much, and Clark sold his business eight years ago. However, he kept the domain name, paying the $20 a year registration fee and using it to sell ads.Now, however, it’s made him a very rich man. In an online auction that began on March 27, Clark sold the pizza.com domain name to an anonymous bidder for a very tidy $2.6 million.He’d heard that vodka.com had sold a couple of years ago for £3 million, and it set him thinking, he told the Baltimore Sun. "I thought, ‘Why don’t I just try to see what the level of interest is?’ If someone’s willing to pay that much for Vodka.com, maybethere’s more interest in pizza.com." The transaction has yet to be finalized, but Clark remains stunned. "It’s crazy, it’s just crazy. It will make a significant difference inmy life, for sure."
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Man Sells $2.6 Million Pizza
AOL and Warner Launch In2TV
America Online and Warner Brothers have officially launched In2TV, billed as the first broadband television network. Available to U.S. Internet users, In2TV requires Windows XP with Windows Media Player 10, and Macromedia Flash Player 8, and features thousands of “classic” television episodes from the Warner Bros. program archives. Episodes can be seen using either Windows Media Player or AOL’s own Hi-Q video format, which promises DVD-quality images.
AOL, WB To Offer Older TV Online via P2P
In an aggressive new foray into bringing television content to broadband-enabled Internet users, America Online and Warner Brothers Domestic Cable Distribution have announced a free online video service which will offer thousands of episodes of older television programming via the Internet using a peer-to-peer file sharing network controlled by AOL.
Yahoo! Tops January Internet Traffic
From their press release:
comScore Media Metrix today announced the Top 50 U.S. Internet Properties for the month of January 2004. In January, the total U.S. Internet population totaled 152.4 million users who spent an average of 28.9 hours online, an increase of 5 percent versus December. In January, tax, politics, diet and travel sites dominated the top-gaining properties and categories.
“Consumer behavior followed patterns that we’ve seen for several years and have come to expect, reflecting the official kickoff of the tax season and the unofficial start of the diet season,†said Peter Daboll, president and CEO of comScore Media Metrix. “But we also saw the effects of the Democratic primaries and unique news events, underscoring the degree to which the Web has become a natural extension and barometer of everyday life.â€
