I don't think it has much to do with tech brands. It's just vastly easier to squat on many names because it's vastly easier to start businesses that are based p

I don't think it has much to do with tech brands. It's just vastly easier to squat on many names because it's vastly easier to start businesses that are based purely on info technology. (I use "information business" to mean a company that is built on/around software and networking tech but does not produce new tech itself. Facebook and Uber are tech companies, they've produced new tech like database engines, workflow engines, and so on. Lots of companies write Python and use databases to do stuff, but create only applications.) You don't need things like an office, store or factory. And you're in a global namespace, so all of a sudden you can't have Peter's Bike Shop in 100 different cities all be independent names.