Expired Domains Buyers get Dirty

The death of this part of the business

[George]

I cannot be the only one to watch the death of the usefulness of Expired domains.
mistahs post Here: [webmasterworld.com...]
explains a part of the problem I think. Expired domains are now being grabbed by resellers who over estimate the value, or Porn Kings/Queens who just put so many pop-ups, home page scripts etc in to drive the average joe (that me) from ever wanting to look again.

I see why they do it, it has to be good business for them. But I register it as a bad day in a wonderful year.

[dmorison]

Do these companies that are buying up expired domains have any advantage over anybody else who wishes to snipe an expired domain (other than that they've got nothing better to do)?

You both know when the domain is going to expire; so what happens on that date?

[George]

No advantage at all that I can tell. Not the issue.

[Ron_James]

Yes, of course they have the advantage. If you count things like knowing what services to use to grab the name, having more funds available for bidding on expiring names, and having overall more experience than the average user.

If there is a top shelf domain dropping, the average user has next to no chance of catching it when it drops. Expiring domains is a high competition industry.