Why should the registry have to give you a chance? You didn't spend six or even seven figures on the application fee, development costs, legal fees, marketing, etc. not to mention the auction itself if there were multiple applicants. Why would they then fire-sale the good stuff to you?
Some registries feel that they can make more by having it be a free-for-all like you describe, generally these are registries with strings that can support hundreds of thousands or even millions of domains.
Some registries feel they can maximize revenue by premium pricing everything good and having fewer overall registrations, generally these are the ones like .tax where there might only be a few thousand domains that make sense. According to nTLDStats there are only 5,829 registrations in .tax. If they priced them all at $30 they wouldn't even be able to cover their OPEX, much less attempt to make a return on their investment, even though they might have twice as many registrations as they do now.
Most registries are playing domain investor instead of catering to them. Nothing wrong with that, it's their prerogative as the owner of the namespace. But I definitely wouldn't invest in those strings as a domain investor except when they miss something that should have been premium priced or price it incorrectly. I'm sure they don't mind though, they're not doing this to give domainers a chance to make money.
I still think it is worth tracking their sales though even if they are playing domain investor, as an actual domain investor can still hold domains in those extensions and would benefit from knowing of past sales. That said, I also wouldn't buy into the hype and go on a hand-regging spree just because the registry made a good sale.
They don’t, when they put $1000+ annual renewals on such names, or you are paying $12,500 in EAP, you are paying your dues.
The whole point of the application process of gtlds was, because there was not enough good affordable .com’s left, so this space was opened up, only to be gamed by many operators who uses loop holes.
The intial argument to ICANN was not that we are going to warehouse these names, and sell them for whatever we like, it was about offering consumers more affordable choices.
Some companies chose to slander .com, saying it was dead, to further their interests, so many of these operators are not exactly angels, but greedy execs who will say anything to make a buck.
It’s human nature to try and game an oppotunity, it can be Elon Musk’s flamethrower, it can be an Ohtani rookie card, but these registries are not just giving such names away, the better ones have high premiums, and in doing so they are playing the risk reward factor in letting the buyer hold the risk, with reward payoff. Not sure why domainers get a bad rap compared to every other industry out there.
Yes, the registry was allowed to hold a set amount back, but it is what it is, not every buyer knows what they are doing, or what they are up against.
Even domain owners like Nissan can be hypocrites for blaming others of profiting off domains, then they go and sell z.com for many millions in profits themselves.
The registries changed their story when they understood the market was not ready for the dynamics of their extensions. Many here are simply questioning who owned the domain, as it looked like a hand reg flip, but that usually indicates a platinum registry sale.