Why do urls like allegory.com and smelt.com redirect to godaddy? Does no one really own those by this point? I feel like just about every common word or phrase would have been taken by now.

Question

Also leg.com and smell.com don’t appear to be owned.

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Answer 1

People buy domains (websites) that may not appear to be anything with the hope of selling them later for a big cash out.

Using OP’s example, [leg.com](https://leg.com) doesn’t look like anything but it was purchased in 1997 and is in fact owned by someone.

Many popular simple word domains were bought up during the dotcom boom for this very reason.