"I realized it had been registered by another party & getting it back was an uphill battle…” (emphasis added)

Well, you can only get back what you once owned. It’s a free market and one man’s cybersquatting is another man’s business model. No one owns a domain name by default. 

The easier way to think about it is that you can always come up with another name. Obviously, it would be better if you gain the no-brainer name.

Paul Korir, PhD
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