I made a few hundred this past christmas was a blackfriday info typo set. I got every one I could find for the one domain and it paid off. I got close to 15 of them that hit and let the rest go back to the registrar with no deletion fees Paid $1.99 for each of the ones I kept.
Then after the blackfriday blitz I turned around and sold them for another $1200
So yeah....Turned $30 into $2400ish total after selling them within a couple weeks of regging them.
Made cash from parking them at parked com which paid pretty good at the time.
Im not big into domains as much as I use to but there is still big money in them. IMO
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As far as tasting goes....I did a little myself
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