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Most of the obvious web addresses are bought in bulk by a lot of people. The main reason is for when joe bloggs wants to grab a domain, instead of paying the usual $9.99 or what ever it is, they end up having to buy direct from the broker through a registrar and can end up paying 10 times more.
Recently the guy who bought pizza.com sold it for a couple of million last year and he got that by luck back in the 90's.
It's hard to get a good web address nowadays and some that other people own are likely to sell for thousands if it's a name in demand.
Most of the sites that have a "placeholder" such as the one on audioarts are google ads so everytime someone clicks on a link there, the person who owns the domain gets a couple of cents. People who are buying hundreds of domain names and getting hundreds of clicks per day are making a ton of money from virtual real estate and also can make a killing when they sell the domain name at a profit.
audioarts is owned by moniker.com who is another registrar and you can actually make an offer on the domain name through their website and they might sell it depending on your offer.
Bear in mind that if you search for other domain names through their site and then come back a day later to buy it, they might have bought it themselves as it would be seen as "in demand".
I had the same thing pulled on my when bbuying a domain name by a registrar that I won't name who then put the domain name up for auction at $2500. A right kick in the teeth since I was going to buy it the day before for $9.95 .
The only registrar I use these days is namecheap, you can search their site or set up a free acount. It's also a good way to start making a bunch of your own virtual realestate of good domain names that you might find.
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