Would you trust strangers with candy?

By adamg on Mon, 06/08/2009 - 2:30pm

Mass High Tech announces the return of 1998: A Weymouth company has just spent $3 million to buy the domain name candy.com, at which it plans to build a wicked big online candy store, or, in press-release-speak, "the best online customer service candy shopping experience in the world." The new site is still 23 days away from launch, but, of course, there's a pre-launch Twitter feed.

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Someone paid millions for

By NotWhitey on Mon, 06/08/2009 - 4:36pm.

Someone paid millions for pizza.com recently. I can imagine better things to do with 3 mill.

Did somebody say pizza.com?

By adamg on Mon, 06/08/2009 - 4:42pm.

Back before the dotbomb, a couple co-workers and I came up with a great idea: PizzaWorld.com, if only for the slogan:

You've tried the rest, now click the best.

Probably just as well we didn't quit the day jobs.

Great moments in pizza clicking history

By neilv on Mon, 06/08/2009 - 5:29pm.

Pre-Web, with NeWS-based OpenWindows on the Sun workstations, Sun included PizzaTool, a GUI tool for ordering pizza by fax. It demo'd the PostScript capabilities of NeWS by rendering a cartoon approximation of your pizza toppings.

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/images/pizzatool.gif

I myself wrote the lower-tech but more general LunchTool for the Suns, a browser of places to eat lunch, and which printed up a really spiffy announcement of the day for the regular lunch crowd.

Now with an olive on top

By adamg on Mon, 06/08/2009 - 5:34pm.

Looks remarkably like Real Deal's pizza-ordering site, only with fewer colors and less JavaScript :-).

I'm still holding onto a few domains

By neilv on Mon, 06/08/2009 - 5:19pm.

*Someday*, an old Internet insider who made a pile of money on dotcoms (damn me, for picking then to pursue a PhuD) will give me $1K for a com/net/org set based on a familiar term. That'll about cover what I've spent on registration renewals for them. :)

(I remember back when one had to prove their organization worthy to get a single domain, and when attempting to register a generic term would've been considered reprehensible. Then NSI shirked its duty for stewardship, and ICANN came in and created an industry of "registrars" somehow selling commodities that they didn't own. Great way to throw away a scarce public resource. People willing to exploit the situation were enriched. Now we have a market in which, the deeper your pockets, the more you control how things may even be named.)