Well, it is kind of funny though: The leading ELAN thi pedia site on the net. What is that even supposed to mean?

Where do people get the money to buy up old domain names and make fake websites? Do they really think anyone is going to pay 18 thousand dollars for that name when someone could just come up with another one? Do they really expect that investment to pay off, ever? I mean, how do these people even make money?

>>I know a guy whose job at company X was figuring out word combinations made by phone numbers, then registering them.

Several web providers offer comprehensive data on recently-abandoned sites, like average traffic and related google tags and such, in the interest of quick resale to prospective buyers. Someone probably snatched it up seeing it did good traffic (notice the links provided are PC games), will sit on it for a predetermined amount of time, and then abandon it eventually.

I used to do something similar for a living because I wanted to be self-employed. It worked well enough, but that lasted for a total of about six months before I abandoned it. Spending ten hours a day over-optimizing hundreds of placeholder pages on a private VPN is very dry work, to say the least.