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April 1st, 2008

But does it come with www.pepperoni.com?

Posted by: Patrick Fitzgibbons

pizza.jpgProving the theory that there’s always someone willing to buy everything, domain name “pizza.com” is up for sale — and someone’s willing to pay more than $2.5 million for the right to own it.

The Web site provides all sorts of general information about pizza, including recipes, coupons and where to get pizza in your neighborhood or zip code.

While the Web site has links to all the usual pizza suspects — Domino’s, Pizza Hut, California Pizza Kitchen, etc. — it will also help you find local pizza joints like Benny Tudino’s in Hoboken, NJ (home of the gigantic slice and seen in the picture below); Ski & Benny’s Pizza in Anchorage, Alaska and Benny’s Pizza in Beardstown, Illinois.

Pizza.com also has news stories written about pizza, games for the kids and discussion forums. 

benny.jpgThe domain name is being sold by Sedo.com, which also currently has auctions for such domain names as southcarolinagolfnews.com (no price set yet), k8q.com (priced at $222); zap6.com ($100); and recently sold bce.com for $28,001.

Jeremiah Johnston, chief operating officer of Sedo, said he couldn’t tell us who was leading in the bidding so far, but he expected the price to continue to climb.

“Most of our traffic hits in the last 10 hours of the auctions,” he said. Pizza.com is scheduled to remain on the block for another two days.

So, Pizza.com is going to sell for a pretty sweet price, too, but Sedo is used to big numbers. Johnston said Sedo has already sold vodka.com for $3 million, eggs.com for $112,500 and equity.com for $100,000.

That’ll buy someone a lot of pizzas!