[googoo]

I saw many webmasters lately talking about the quantity of domains they own, but most of them are unused. So, I'd like to why buying domains that aren't being used?

[amygdala]

GooGoo, ever bought something in real life because it was cheap and you thought it will be helpful to own it, because one day you'll need it ? It's the same in the net. If it is something rare, then first get it. Once you have it
you can sell it again.

[googoo]

It doesn't make any sense to me buying stuff I won't use and pay for it for a year or months. If the original idea is to purchase popular domain names to sell them later for making money, that's a better idea.

[ryquest]

Domain speculation is just like real estate. A lot of people buy domains simply for resell. In addition, if the domain might get a couple of real hits a day (browser type ins) and you have a 1000 names like that, you now easily have a couple of thousand visitors/day.