DomainNameWire.com has confirmed that the domain pizza.com was sold to National A-1, the price was not disclosed.
The domain was at auction on Sedo.com were the high bidder at $2.6 Million defaulted.
A group of domainers were looking to acquire the domain in the 1.5M range but at last report the Seller was demanding at least 2 million.
Even if it sold for $1.5 million, it’s a shot in the arm for the industry.
Agreed
But I would be suprised if it wasn’t closer to 2M
I’d be surprised if the Seller let it go for less than
2-mil…
There’d be no reason for him to do that…
There’s always someone that will pony up for a name that good…
Contrats to Seller and Buyer(s)…
~DomainBELL (Patricia)
I still shocked a millionaire domainer hadn’t grabbed it
Tim
One did there called National A-1
They have a great portfolio of domains.
I’m more surprised that Domino’s or Papa John’s didn’t grab this. Even at $2.6M, it’s about one or two month’s ad expenditure for them. I’d add pizzadelivery.com to the must have list for them too. Flowers.com anyone?
Tony
Yes I talked extensively about that when the auction was announced.
It was acquired for less than the cost of a 30 second super bowl commercial
“I’m more surprised that Domino’s or Papa John’s didn’t grab this. Even at $2.6M, it’s about one or two month’s ad expenditure for them. I’d add pizzadelivery.com to the must have list for them too. Flowers.com anyone?”
These aren’t “must haves” for a pizza co. It is pretty hard to imagine this site springing up into a viable competitor, the infrastructure requirement to set up a national pizza chain is immense and the existing players have their own brands. A generic name is just a traffic source for a company like that.
At what $ amount did Pizza.com sell for??
Damir
The price has not been reported as of yet.
As I said in my post I believe it is 2M or more