As the owner of a couple vanity domains for no useful purpose, no, I don’t “benefit” from it. In fact, each domain costs me a small amount of money. But the amusement I get from them makes it worth it. :)

As someone also with a few dozen vanity domains. The benefit is learning how to manage multiple web properties with minimum resources. It costs me about $500/year in domain registration alone. I would consider it my hobby as well, but it makes us a shoe-in candidate for a lot of technical positions because we dont need to tell we can simply show.

Why don't you put them on a tld that'll give you cheap domains?

Then they’re not vanity domains anymore (;

I’ve been doing this for 20 years, all discounts found and baked in. FWIW all of my demo sites since last summer use .xyz before they become full fledged vanity domains

> Always wanted to know though, do you benefit something from such websites?

it's a net loss of 10€ a year but makes me happy which certainly improves my cardiovascular health :p