Strange .org backorders?

Domain Lead Finder said:

I see these back order auctions almost everywhere, I would understand if the domain had any value but this is just crazy.

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former websites

Believe it or not, they are the names and founding dates of various societies:

Society of Wisdom Creation, 2011
Society of World Spiritual Development, 2014
Elders of South Western Canton, 2005
International Development RIsk Society, 2013
International Society of Illuminated Elders, 2015

RMMS is actually Royal Mundane Masters' Society.

Obviously, I totally fabricated these acronyms but it goes to show how many possibilities there are for people to attach significance and meaning to 'random' domain names. One man's trash is another man's... trash.

testing parking probably.

The problem is I see these back orders every day. Multiple people bidding on the strangest .org domains, it is not like they have any actual value. I went and did a historic search:

eswc2005.org it is: "2nd european semantic web conference 2005"
swc2011.org it is: "ISES solar world conference 2011"

I would understand if there was just one person back ordering but they have multiple bidders, this means multiple people placed a back order on a 2005 .org web conference.

If it was one person, I could find many reasons, for example they are an IT company and they take care of clients websites, they let the domain expire by accident and now they are after it. But multiple people?

It is just so strange.

Nobody's buying them to resell, they're buying them for their link equity and authority signals. The ones with the dates are usually industry events / conferences, the last one was a museum. Probably all clean link profiles.

swc2011.org - ahrefs DR 46 109 linking domains, 15 .edu - 2011 ISES Solar World Conference
swsd2014.org - ahrefs DR 47 116 linking domains, 18 .edu - 2014 World Conference on Social Work and Social Development
eswc2005.org - ahrefs DR 46 109 linking domains, 15 .edu - 2005 European Semantic Web Conference, over 10 years old
idris2013.org - (no info available)
isie2015.org - ahrefs DR 49 107 linking domains, 34 .edu -2015 International Symposium on Industrial Electronics
railroadmemoriesmuseumspooner.org - ahrefs DR 46 109 linking domains, 15 .edu, formerly a museum

Domain Lead Finder said:

The problem is I see these back orders every day. Multiple people bidding on the strangest .org domains, it is not like they have any actual value. I went and did a historic search:

eswc2005.org it is: "2nd european semantic web conference 2005"
swc2011.org it is: "ISES solar world conference 2011"

I would understand if there was just one person back ordering but they have multiple bidders, this means multiple people placed a back order on a 2005 .org web conference.

If it was one person, I could find many reasons, for example they are an IT company and they take care of clients websites, they let the domain expire by accident and now they are after it. But multiple people?

It is just so strange.

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Didn't check but there might be hundreds of backlinks for those domains which MIGHT translate to nice parking revenue depending on a myriad of factors.

More likely being used in a PBN - after the conference is over, parking potential plummets.

Oh well, at least my curiosity is satisfied. I see many of these .org back orders every day and it was bugging me more than it should.