discuss There are just too many garbage domain names - Why?

[WebInceptions]

I'm looking at the daily drop list as I have done for many years, and as always, it's 99% garbage.

By garbage, I don't mean ill advised business names, or a domain name obvious for a cat or for an odd opinion blog, but absolute garbage. I mean tens of thousands of domains, EVERY day, that are a near random combination of letters and numbers, sometimes with a random word embedded, and sometimes just 2 or 3 completely random words that have no meaning together.

This has been happening for almost 2 decades, so it's not some sort of mistake, in fact I notice many of the "owners" used privacy protection.

So what is going on? Do 99% of domain buyer have Torrett's Syndrome or something? OR... as is usually the case when sales figures exceed reasonable explanation - money laundering is taking place, or sales figures are "pumped" in order to defraud potential investors or stockholders.

Anyone else have an explanation?

 

[AuctionBio]

1) about 100.000 domains drop every day

2) domains are not only used for webpages / business / hobby / fun

but also:

a) for email
b) for redirection
c) for file upload ( ftp )
d) for testing
e) for tracking
f) for hiding

add more...

Also add spamming with this as well

 

[AEProgram]

when you see names that make no sense google the name in quotes, you will find it many times on some spam db, another thing you will notice now is a lot more junk names dropping that had fake PR, now that google got rid of PR many are dropping their fake PR names.

You also must realize how many people think certain names are good names, sometimes they do so as they are happy to start a web business and they just want any name after they realize good names are taken or cost lots of money. This is a common chat with a web design company.

Customer: Hi I want to start a website that sells pet toys
Developer: Sure, do you have a domain yet?
Customer: No, but my wife and I think PetToys.com would be a good name for our site
Developer: Sorry but that name is taken.
Customer: It can't be, please check again, the site shows nothing
Developer: (explains the customer some basics about domains)
Customer: Ok, I guess we will just settle for Toys.com and maybe later branch out to non pet toys
Developer: That name is not available
Customer: (now gives 800 other names to check all taken)
Customer: OK let's just go with 123pettoysnow.com
Developer: WOW surprised that was available
Customer: Quick here is my credit card ....
Developer: Should we secure the .net, .whatever too?
Customer: YES PLEASE, OMG you are so nice for thinking about this

Fast forward 6 months

Customer: Hey, me and my wife decided that we will go with the red dot from logo number 8745 and the green letters from logo 12 but please add a cat to logo 654 and mix it in with logo 3698, the logo alone can go viral.
Developer: sure
Customer: The rest is simple, we simply want all features Amazon has plus add the auction feature of ebay and create a few simple animations.
Developer: well, you are asking for a very complex system, why not start with a basic shopping cart and grow your business as needed.
Customer: My motto is go big or go home, I am ready to invest whatever it takes $500 $800 money is not an object.
Developer: Sorry but it is beyond the scope of what I can do
Customer: Ok, send us to logo please, my neighbors sons dog is a developer, he is very smart, the other day he hooked up our scanner is 5 minutes, I am sure he can build this in a few hours
Developer: ok good luck

5 years later
2 divorces later
16 development teams later
4 hosting companies later
5 SSL certificate renewals later
1000's of dollars in domains renewals later
42 coming soon pages later
1 Domain appraisal certificate later
6 flippa domain auctions later:

The domain drops, and domainers are wondering, who the heck would register such a stupid domain name?

The domain name is the least stupidest move these people made.

The above happens every day of every week hundreds if not thousands of times.

God bless these people for continuing to support so many industries with their stupidity!

Moral of the story? Next time you see a pet with a lack of toys, blame it on web developers.

 

[scithe]

I often feel like domaining is pretty much 90% pyramid scheme. Maybe...MAYBE 10% of domains registered will be put to use. The rest are just registered and then flipped a couple of times until the pyramid collapses and the domain expires and then they start the pyramid all over again either through drop catchers or perhaps it is left in the dirt for a bit for a domain excavator to find later.

OMFG domainexcavator.com is available... but why not just choose theDomainExcavatorsOfStLouis.com instead! :P