Massive House Cleaning? 613,000 Domains Transferred Off HitFarm's DNS

Not something you see every day. Sign of the PPC times?

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When my brain is looking to cool down (do nothing challenging) I periodically peek at DailyChanges.com, a utility from the folks at Domain Tools, a company whose product mentions I largely shun in this forum. Long story . . but I digress. FWIW, they do offer some interesting tools . .

Looking at DailyChanges today I noticed that some 613,000+ domains were being transferred out from HitFarm's DNS. I looked that a partial list of the domains and I can't say it was any great loss to HitFarm (assuming they were, in fact, parked on HF's system.)

Is this a massive housecleaning effort? If so, the scale of it - in what appears to be 1 move - is unprecedented.

I've been watching some large moves from Fabulous, too. Again, the vast majority of the domains removed from their servers were "icky".

I might infer that there is a move afoot to clean up portfolios, either as preparation for an acquisition OR as a requirement of keeping on favorable terms with a feed provider.

But, really, 613,000+ domains transferred out in one move. Mostly junk if the 20K I scanned were representative of the full 613K.

Wassup? Anyone care to either guess or otherwise illuminate me?

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Alrighty, I just checked 1 domain that was transferred and discovered that the registrant has quite a history of adverse UDRP/WIPO decisions and apparently a cybersquatting lawsuit here and there.

613,000 domains? Ya, quite a few typos in there. But all at 1 parking company? And now moved to another parking feed? Is anyone minding the domain parking feed store?

I wonder: Are certain folks having trouble finding a safe harbor in the PPC storm? Not that I'm biased against business models based upon typo-squatting but . . . :P