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New domain price guessing game warns against “asshole domain squatters”

Kevin Murphy, January 23, 2019, Domain Sales

You’re a domain expert, right? Think you could accurately guess which of two randomly selected names is on sale for the larger amount of money on the secondary market?
A simple new game, which appears to have been published in the last week or so, will now allow you test your l33t domain evaluation skillz.
Guessing Game
Click the name you think is the more expensive. The game will reveal both prices and keep track of your score.
You can apparently carry on guessing as long as you want. I went 20 rounds and scored an unimpressive 10 points. I’m not sure whether I should draw any conclusions from this 50:50 hit rate.
It appears that author Martin O’Leary sourced his pricing data from the landing pages of the domains themselves. If you dig around in the code you’ll find a JSON data set with just over 100,000 names and prices.
It doesn’t sound like he’s a domainer, either. A constant footer on the app reads: “please don’t buy any of these domains, they’re all terrible and you’d be supporting asshole domain squatters”.
UPDATE: The original version of this story incorrectly stated that these names had sold for the prices listed.