According to Baltimore Sun, Chris Clark bought the name back in 1994, hoping that the domain would help him score a contract with a pizza company. But six years later he sold his Internet consulting company, but he kept paying the $20 monthly fee for the domain.
But when he heard that in 2006 a Russian company paid $3
million for Vodka.com, he decided to put its domain on auction.
"Really generic description domains are hot commodities
these days, especially the ones that encapsulate an entire industry," said
Jeremiah Johnston, Sedo's chief operating officer, quoted by
Chris Clark, who now owns Minestream Software Corp., a company that sells Internet protection products, said he has not idea what he will do with the money.
Of course, he has only one regret. "In '94, you could
have just registered everything and anything,"