Originally posted by RealNames
I did not mean the letter-letter-number and letter-number-number ones (which may have value), but mostly the nonsensical ones like most of the drops you listed which do are not in that pattern.
OK Timechange, some of them may have some value but I still maintain most on those 2 lists are worthless. Perhaps someone should reg all 4,000 of them and corner the market
Overall, there is no such thing as a "bad domain". What seems ludicrous to you and I might be valuable for someone else.
There are patterns that certain groups of people might like, due to language or cultural reasons. Chinese think 8 is a lucky number, Japanese believe in 7 and Vietnamese in 9. Also entire combinations have meaning in these other languages.
It is very hard to know all that and definitely a big gamble to take, registering all the combinations simply because they dropped.
But look at what I just registered, G8W.com
GateWay is the most obvious way it reads. Since I also have G8K.com since 2000 (reads: GateKeeper) what *I* saw was useful but what someone else might see could be junk