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I do the opposite : ) I buy the domain, and then put myself to sleep skipping through biz avenues.. A fun tool to use for hand-reg domains (if you didn't know already) https://instantdomainsearch.com/
As an aside, I first heard about instantdomainsearch.com from Beau at a Y Combinator event. He was working on Snipshot, and considered the domain search as an old side project that wasn't all that interesting anymore. It's interesting to see that the domain search is still up and running and Snipshot is gone. I wonder which one made more money in that decade+.
Instant Domain Search did. People visiting the site tend to be ready to buy a domain, and Go Daddy does an amazing job of converting that intent into an actual sale.
Most if Snipshot's users tended to use the tool to crop and apply filters to photos they posted to social networks. Whoops.