Comment by mattmerr
16 hours ago
What does "a domain that was making about $9k/year in ad revenue" look like? Is this domain one where people randomly stumble upon it and give ad views to a parking page? A website with regular use or other content that people visit for some purpose that is now under different ownership?
Probably a parked domain with ads that people stumble across. We used to call these guys cybersquatters.
They're still called cybersquatters, except for some unknown reason ICANN has decided to not actually do anything about them. :(