Same here, gave me chills for a sec. There were several thousand available i thought,...who has the major bankroll to buy them at once???? That would have absolutely made my day...
Time to re-run another list of available ones, eh?
Still, someone is buying them. I saw a couple I liked on that list of available you posted, but I didn't want to to spend the money right then. I just checked them a day or two ago, and they are gone.
A few years ago I bought this couple:
loan.cc
loans.cc
finance.cc
dogs.cc
switzerland.cc
india.cc
Although it might take a few years before .cc will have it's space in the internet, it's still a good investment in my opinion, especially as China likes to use this extension as well (with www.on.cc being the best example with an Alexa ranking of 1,066).
I am a .cc fan also. I saw notebooks.cc auction off at TDNam yesterday for 450. I had the top bid at 125 with one minute left to go. Then 2 bidders came out of nowhere and proceeded bid like heck up to about 450. I am sure athe cc's are going to take off soon. Land is land no matter where it is located. It will always sell if it is beach front property (premium). Reg fee prices will probably be the most determining factor whether the CC CCTLD takes off or not IMO. Surprisingly, I have a few dot cc's making decent ppc revenue.
Who buys the .cc names? End-users or other domainers? Are they more popular in any specific countries? I have a few good .cc domain names. I wondered if it is better to develop them in English or not.
I did a quick Google search of what was developed out there in .cc domains. The results surprised me! These are the ones with pages over 100k:
about 2,380,000 English pages
about 1,080,000 Japanese pages
about 829,000 Chinese (Traditional) pages
about 517,000 German pages
about 496,000 Korean pages
about 405,000 Turkish pages
about 388,000 Arabic pages
about 383,000 Chinese (Simplified) pages
about 366,000 Thai pages
about 308,000 Swedish pages
about 270,000 Spanish pages
about 249,000 Russian pages
about 249,000 Italian pages
about 237,000 French pages
about 218,000 Polish pages
about 111,000 Vietnamese pages
I guess the moral of the story is: Don't neglect other languages. Put up a page or two for as many of these languages as you can. If you want to attract end-users and increase your exposure (leading to a sale), the majority of the .cc domains are not necessarily for English speakers. And these non-English speakers obviously register and use dot CC domains, too!
Add a Japanese and a Chinese page to double your exposure and chance of a sale. Or go the easy route and try French, Spanish, Italian, and German.
Yeah, there's definitely an international interest in the extension. My sap.cc gets 88% of its traffic from Chinese type-ins.
Something I noticed while using the URDNG to check available .cc names is that there are a ton of obscure words taken in the .cc extension but not in any gTLDs (including .com). For example, neighborlinesses.cc is taken, but "neighborlinesses" is available in every other TLD. Other examples include "macebearers", "federalizes", and "supplicated".
Any ideas as to what could be causing this? While I do think .cc is hypeworthy, I find it hard to imagine it would be so hypeworthy that .com and other gTLDs would become secondary to it.
Do you have any Chinese pages? If not, you may be 'leaving money on the table' (to use a cliche). Consider paying someone a few bucks to create one Chinese homepage link and a Chinese language page. It could pay off.
JULY.cc 
I've tried the translation services to take a text into Chinese for a parked site that had