I actually made $500 by buying a domain without a prototype. Back in college I started working on a personal project I decided to call "Silicon Brain". As soon

I actually made $500 by buying a domain without a prototype. Back in college I started working on a personal project I decided to call "Silicon Brain". As soon as I had my first 5 lines of JavaScript I bought the domain name "sibrain.com". Fast forward a few months... I've lost interest in the project. Someone contacts me looking to buy the domain, I accept, payment is made within a week, and I am $500 richer. [EDIT: Thanks joelrunyon for the cached copy.] I'd like to make a counterargument: that if you think of a domain name that's relatively pronouncable and not extremely limited in scope (e.g. "joes-art-supply.com" would be pretty specific, but "joeworld.com" doesn't limit you as much) nab it. Granted, you don't want to be doing this every day, but remember, "google" was once a nonsense word (okay, it was a misspelling of a number that was rarely used outside of certain contexts).