hotnamelist.com
There are still good COM domains for websites, blogs, or investment... HotNameList shows 100 good, AVAILABLE COM domain names every day. No auctions or parking. Search lets you look for key words or topics...
I'd suggest checking out Google Hot Trends (http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends) and finding available domain names against that.
I had a site like this years ago and it did quite well. Looks like you found the right business model as well, domain squatters pay big money for these lists.
The only reason I stopped doing it was because I felt uneasy contributing to the domain name squatting problem.
Point taken.
>> I'd suggest checking out Google Hot Trends
Many of the "hot picks" come from there.
>> contributing to the domain name squatting problem
Trademark violations are a big problem. I can pretend to ignore the issue in the same way the gun makers say "We're not the ones pulling the trigger." But the difference is that many domain buyers are NOT really all that educated on UDRP and trademarks. I think I'll investigate automatically removing domains that appear to contain trademarks, or at least flagging them -- not sure how hard that will be.
Here is a prototype ticker with a new AVAILABLE domain every second: http://hotnamelist.com/ticker.html
Or, you can create a twitter account that will update a new domain everyday and ask people to subscribe to the account.
And the advertising networks don't pay reliably. I know the domains are getting clicked and sold, but there isn't always a commission at the end of the rainbow.
I have sold a few custom lists -- but I'm curious what other monetization ideas there might be...