[rualca]

> To put an example to the other comments, look up the history of the XYZ domain - in a nutshell, they had a fire sale selling domains for pennies to gain market share. Besides normal people, three groups descended upon it: spammers, squatters and hackers. (...)

I don't know which point you were trying to make, but as far as I could tell that's the business model that's being followed by all vanity gTLDs.

The only nuance I've noticed is that there are a bunch of domains being sold for peanuts with the caveat that after a year or two it's price is hiked to somewhere in the range of 30-50$.