What I found was that nearly every domain name I could think of containing the keyword in my industry was taken - like widget-design, widget-support, widget-help, widget-programming... and 100 others (i got tired of typing).

All are now taken and hosted on google's domain syndication with two screen fulls of ads.

I suspect that there are 100s of 1000s of these domains now in various industries. This is a complete change over the last 18 months (the last time I looked).

This does two things to us. 1) continues to degrade what adwords advertisers think of the content network. 2) Dilutes the available ad space making it approach infinity.

I know because I can still get 1000s of visitors for 1cent each using adwords. But the visitors are cr*p.

ps. the domains that were not parked where hosting fake search results that contained nothing but ads.

I didn't find a single domain for a real company providing any product or service.