
FinancialAdvisor.io was sold for $5,000 back in 2016 over at NamePull.com. The domain name was then developed by the buyer Contrast Investing. In 2018 it started redirecting to SmartSavings.io.
Archive.org from 2016
They let it expire a couple years later and I guess it was hand registered in 2019 and now it closed at auction at Park.io for $432 on Tuesday.
SmokeNYC.com is another $5,000 purchase down the drain. It looks like from whois history that the buyer never even changed the nameservers.
Two years later it expired and went for $226 at GoDaddy auctions, it expired again and closed at $132 at GoDaddy auctions on Tuesday.