@neavvy, we notice many of the high ranking keywords have already been taken up but not active. Examples of such keywords are hotel, insurance, games, voice, flight, auto and maps. All these accounts are inactive.

There are thousands of such keywords already booked but not active. These are people who are speculating, hoping that one day steem blockchain will become extremely popular and this accounts can be sold for a good profit. Meanwhile the account will remain dormant.

We reckon the number of such accounts are more than 10,000.