It's largely a game or done for the novelty value, I think, for many of them - kind of like buying a certificate that says you named a star or an asteroid. I r

It's largely a game or done for the novelty value, I think, for many of them - kind of like buying a certificate that says you named a star or an asteroid. I ran across one that had my name as a .com (something I'd obviously want), had a bunch of back and forth for several years, once or twice every year, and eventually they realized - ya know - nobody with this name is ever going to pay the exorbitant price they wanted, then they let it lapse. Picked it up for $10 or so, instead of $15,000+. Some of the very short domain names that map to abbreviated company names in China can still be valuable, or if they're somehow truly unique, but for the most part, domain squatting is a dead end for 99% of the domain names at anything less than a very large scale.