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It's like bootstrapped businesses don't want to pay $10000 for a marginally better name.

http://auctions.godaddy.com - $5 bargain bin

http://sedo.com - "Make an offer" on thousands of keyword names

http://freshdrop.net - Filter and sort pretty much every marketplace.

Yes, you can get cheap domain names, but they'll usually be worse that whatever nonsense you think up. Look at those links you just posted. Anything near the going price of a domain name is going to be absolute crap. Here's the first page of the Godaddy auctions page:

formenti.tv, live960.tv, news18.tv, kamerali-sohbet.info, jeong-vs-jpmorganchase.com, watchmadmenonline.info, randy-orton.org, tvlima.tv, youngshemales.info, 3wolves.us, specialq.mobi, b2bmarketplace.us, straightdaddies.com, epiphonesheraton.com, schooltools.tv

The only names that look remotely useful for any conceivable purpose (youngshemales, b2bmarketplace and schooltools) are all in spammy-looking TLDs.

We bought Locately.com. I don't know if we're not creative enough, but it was much better than anything we were able to come up with which wasn't registered. And having a better name is definitely worth the small amount of money we paid for it.

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