Lots of domain platforms, including the biggest like namecheap and godaddy buy up expiring domain names to see if they can sell them on their platform at a profit. It's been a practice that has been done for years.
Yep the bots go crazy over domain names and all of the sudden you might think you got a popular name when in fact it's just robots, not real visitors. More than half of the traffic on the web are bots, perhaps even more.
It took a while to get the domains I put up here verified, mainly because the Namepros system is different than any where else I've encountered on the web. The additional step could be explained a bit better to help those parking names here. A...
I've been a member of Namepros for years, buying and selling domains on this forum and many other places all over the internet for somewhere around two decades. You'd say I'm more of a hobbyist than a serious full time domainer. I've always...
Frankly the hassle isn't worth the pennies you may get paid any where I have found. Sorry to say but the companies are in business to line their own pockets. A good service provider in this arena would be refreshing. But companies that pay up...