Clever Buy-Out Companies

I used to use the site DeletedDomains.com a lot to find expired domain names, for things that interested me, or otherwise to add to my collection. Well, I went to look up a name yesterday, and out of nowhere, the site is new, the look is new, and it is now a paid service - bought out by another company looking for another source of profit. My Email: WHY WHY WHY did you have to go make this site a paid service. THAT SUCKS. I have used your site almost every day for probably a half year now and have probably triggered thousands of banner views, and now I can't even do a search anymore. Very, very sad. The Response: Thank you for the feedback. A great deal of money has been spent on purchasing this site and rewriting the code, plus developing relationships with 3rd parties to provide enhanced features in the coming months. All of this takes money. DeletedDomains has been costing significant dollars in hosting expenses and development, and with this, along with the benefits to the user, membership fees were in order. (Translated: Well, we have simply moved into the next step of a very common marketing technique. We get users to become addicted to our website, then after they're good and needy, we add a usage fee - after we have already accumulated ridiculous amounts of advertising dollars from banner CPMs.) The Email I Should Write Back: You sir, are not very nice. Give me a free membership or I'll never use your site again.