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I picked up/resold a lot of expiring domains in 2008 when people couldn't hold on to them/stopped speculating. Made around $30K off some scripts that took expiring domains and parsed english words, grabbed the number of return results for those words in Google as well as cost per click and some other mojo to determine potential worth, pick up the decent ones and send emails to relevant companies. I'm no longer that scummy but I wonder if there will be an upturn of lapsed domain renewals this downturn? I'm guessing there's a ton of competition now (even from the Registrars) as even then I think a lot passed through Godaddy auctions or some such before dropping of.