Although they have been retaining “the best” of their domains, “the Best” is in the eye of the beholder,

Your points on the value being in the scanner and what they are looking for and value is so true. In fact, it is so funny how someone can view our collection as many subpar domains I think are excellent and I see many many complete portfolios that I would not even touch for 1-yr reg fees. Then I love to see the marketing spin put on how great these names are in an effort to justify their worth.

Everyday, this biz makes me smile.

Although they have been retaining “the best” of their domains, “the Best” is in the eye of the beholder, so some decent names have been getting released into their auction system.

They also do not retain any adult domains to the best of my knowledge.

Your not going to find too many five figure domains, but there have definately been some in the last couple of years, copying.com is one that comes to mind that they did not retain.

There are also many domains we believe are worth several thousands of dollars retail, that were sold for $60 and above on a regular basis.

Once again each of us can look through a list of domains and see ones we like that others dont’.

For example I don’t see buying the LLLL.com names but everyday i see bids on them at namejet.com
To me their junk but to other’s their gold.

Likewise whomever looks over the list for tucows has their own outlook and just because the release a name it doesn’t mean its crap,

However these are not names that will stand out when mixed with 30,000 other daily dropping domains.

So my belief is that Tucows.com may actually receive less revenue, using one of the other auction houses than they receive now, especially after they have to split the proceeds.

This would be the part I am interested in to see if it changes. If Tucows keeps all the good ones, I guess it wouldn’t matter where they send their domains to auction. We already know they keep the best of the best and dump the rest.