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Neapolitan pizza: welcome to the official VPN website
 Vera Pizza Napoletana Association: the official site.
The VPN Association is the only no profit association that safeguards and promotes the culture of the real Neapolitan pizza worldwide. You will find a personalized form for each member, but also useful information about our divisions abroad and how to join us. The site was designed also to provide all the required information about pizza and it will be regularly updated, especially the "News" section. Our newsletter will keep you always informed as you will receive periodically an e-mail about all the news and events concerning the VPN Association.
Enjoy surfing our site!
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| NEWS |
Pizza.com domain name fetches millions - But AVPN Replay: who cares?
 Who would've thought a generic domain name would still have the capacity to pull in big bucks? Chris Clark, the seller of "Pizza.com," seemed a bit in shock after he managed to rake in $2.6 million from the auction of the domain name.
"It's crazy, it's just crazy," he told the Baltimore Sun after the close of the auction on Thursday.
Clark, who owns a software company, registered the Pizza.com domain name 14 years ago for just $20. Nothing fruitful ever really came of the domain, so he sat on it for a while, and then he and a friend turned it into an advertising and pizza directory. Then, they heard about the fortuitous sale of Vodka.com and decided to try their own luck with Pizza.com, according to the Sun. By March 29, the bidding hit $2 million and even more bids were coming in.
During the go-go days of the Internet, hopeful companies and entrepreneurs snapped up easy-to-remember, generic domain names with the expectation that they would translate to boatloads of cash--or even a heady IPO. But the gold rush began to die down as it became apparent that names like Jewelry.com and Meat.com were a losing proposition. Vodka.com and the even bigger sale of Business.com for $7.5 million in 1999 can be called anomalies among the many failures.
Clark's Pizza.com auction was held by Sedo.com, which currently features such aspirants as "fattoskinny.com," "waterfrontretreat.com", and "getforeigncurrecy.com".
Anyway the President and the Managing Director of VPN Antonio Pace and Massimo Di Porzio, interviewed by the italian newspaper "Il Denaro" about the business of selling domain and trademark, both replayed that the VPN association is a no profit association and the Collective Trademark "Vera Pizza Napoletana" was ideated and founded not to be sold, but to promote and defend the process of making the "real neapolitan pizza" ('vera pizza napoletana') and the method of production of it. |
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| ABOUT US |
 In 1984, together with a group of keen friends representing the old tradition of pizza-makers and the owners of the most famous pizza restaurants in town, we founded the VPN Association.
We established a set of simple rules, committing ourselves to observe them, well aware that Neapolitan pizza has no inventors, nor fathers or masters, but it is the result of Neapolitan people genius. Furthermore, we were sure that these rules would improve more and more the quality of our pizzas. The main target was to make sasdi quality pizzas... [following] |
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