question What's with the mass (15k+) domain purchases?

[Morgo]

Anyone know what's with the huge purchases of meaningless domains (e.g. random numbers and letters, or every permutation of number before a word or phrase)?

Originally I thought it was a shady move by ngtld owners to boost the optics of a tld. I'm sure this is often the case, but this is also happening in .app. I'm confident Google doesn't care about faking their reg numbers, so pretty sure that option is out for this tld (IMO).

Ok, so maybe a botnet / phishing scam? But it's seems both pricey (e.g. namestat.org showing 15k .app regs today at GD, so well over $200k at GD prices) and seems easy to detect (likely one or a few account(s) mass registering meaningless domains - assume this account could be shut down if enough of their names are used for nefarious purposes).

Just super curious. Anything I'm missing here?

 

[ultradog]

Are you talking about number domains like 4591.com and short acronym domains like EPMC.com? Those are easily explained by customers who like short numerics and abbreviations as shorthand for a company’s website. Chinese buyers have a strong affinity for purely numeric domains. Not only do they buy them, they develop them.

What other domains are you talking about — for instance, a number preceding what word or phrase? It sounds like this would involve very strong keywords like “bets” or “games.”

Or some other kind of domain?

--- Oh, I took a look at that new list of .apps. It is weird, as you said. An awful lot appear to be inspired by GoBet.com, Rick Schwartz's latest huge sale. Some others look awfully close to Bodog, the sportsbook.

 

[Morgo]

Good catch re GoBet, Bodog, etc. Wonder if it's defensive? I'd assume so if it was CSC or MarkMonitor, but not sure about GD. I guess it's reasonable to assume GD does brand protection too.

 

[DuDD]

Are you talking about number domains like 4591.com and short acronym domains like EPMC.com? Those are easily explained by customers who like short numerics and abbreviations as shorthand for a company’s website. Chinese buyers have a strong affinity for purely numeric domains. Not only do they buy them, they develop them.

What other domains are you talking about — for instance, a number preceding what word or phrase? It sounds like this would involve very strong keywords like “bets” or “games.”

Or some other kind of domain?

--- Oh, I took a look at that new list of .apps. It is weird, as you said. An awful lot appear to be inspired by GoBet.com, Rick Schwartz's latest huge sale. Some others look awfully close to Bodog, the sportsbook.

The short numeric domain name has a good meaning, so people prefer it

 

[DuDD]

Are you talking about number domains like 4591.com and short acronym domains like EPMC.com? Those are easily explained by customers who like short numerics and abbreviations as shorthand for a company’s website. Chinese buyers have a strong affinity for purely numeric domains. Not only do they buy them, they develop them.

What other domains are you talking about — for instance, a number preceding what word or phrase? It sounds like this would involve very strong keywords like “bets” or “games.”

Or some other kind of domain?

--- Oh, I took a look at that new list of .apps. It is weird, as you said. An awful lot appear to be inspired by GoBet.com, Rick Schwartz's latest huge sale. Some others look awfully close to Bodog, the sportsbook.

• This is the thread about the digital domain name
  hope it helps you

https://www.namepros.com/threads/meaning-of-chinese-domain-name.1220522/