Man in US sells pizza domain name for $2.6m

Potomac: 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 on 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 ran a website-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 website as a pizzeria directory ever since.

He decided to sell after hearing about other big sales involving domain names. The bidding opened on March 27 at $100 on the website Sedo.com. The winner remains anonymous.

Clark said he now regretted not buying more domain names in the 1990s.