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Certainly a bit sad. I cannot read those domains without imagining what the story behind them was.

Justinandsam.com is just heartbreaking.

Why is it heartbreaking? Think positive. Probably just a domain used for a wedding registry and RSVPs leading up to the event and then no longer needed after the big day.

Yeah, I saw a few decades-old small businesses in there, likely casualties of COVID-19.

Yeah a lot of them are very clearly failed projects and businesses and it’s fascinating reading through them.

w.r.t. b), it looks like you can figure out which were legitimate sites using the "Insight" column!