Some of my domain names were registered as a joke (haggisdiet.com was a bet against Andy Hagans), and it wouldn't be hard to register domains in the name of another person. Having said that, I doubt few people put my name on their domain names, and now you can look up a list of domains owned by a person by using Registrant Search. If you have thin affiliate sites that rank well in Google and are not using fake whois data then now might be a little late to start.
Via Domain Name News I recently discovered Sold Names, which aggregates publicly available price data for domain sales. You can also view last week's sales at DN Journal. If you find someone underselling a domain name browse through their inventory and see if they have any others worth buying.
$134 is not much when some domains sell for $10,000 or $1,000,000. Looking through what others are doing can give you some good ideas for what to buy.
As an example, I bought the .org version of a single word domain for under $3,000 the same month that the .com version of it sold for $1,180,000. And at the last T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain auction the .mobi version of my domain went for $33,000.
Earlier this year my wife bought a .com name on SnapNames for about $3,000. At the last T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain auction the less desirable plural version of the same name went for about $20,000.
These sorts of arbitrage opportunities are all over the place.
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