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 use GoDaddy to buy-and-hold names for resale. GoDaddy themselves also buys up names to resell to customers at a premium

For example, “[fourtwenty.com](https://www.godaddy.com/domainsearch/find?domainToCheck=fourtwenty.com)” is $4.2 million.