I'm not in the top 10, but close to it.

Also, I chose mostly 'long term' aliases, i.e., I don't have a metric shit ton of aliases like 'Viagra', etc. I grabbed more (hopefully) long-term, long-growth stuff.

Frex -- people were probably tripping over themselves to grab Amazon and Facebook (rightfully so), yet they hemorrhage money. There were still hundreds of other Fortune 500 companies available.

Anybody know who Nucor is? Probably not. I didn't. They're the largest recycler in North America. Generated half a billion in profits. Certainly not sexy, and will generate virtually 0 in web traffic. But there's value in companies like that, I think.

Part of me feels shitty for reserving (squatting) so many aliases. The other part of me says 1) fuck it, I didn't start registering until 12/25 (Christmas night!)... how could valuable aliases still be sitting out there three days later? and 2) it felt like the only way for someone with little NXT to try to generate something. I have 6000 nxt. That won't forge anything. I could have 60,000 and it wouldn't forge anything.

I'd love to be at about 250,000 NXT, which is impossible in my current financial situation. I think somewhere in my alias pool I can scrape that together.

Other people grabbed porn and poker and prescription drugs, I grabbed the abbreviations of commodity exchanges. I'm a dork.

If anyone is interested in this alias pooling concept (I am!!!), PM me!