ok, who sold or at least previously owned the highest ranking domain on the list? (the complete list, all 4909 domains).
I've had a bunch of domains in that list at one time or another, including, thesource, creditcards, gun-shop, koho, mtseymour, rockport, tradewinds, etc.
The highest ranked one came in at #150.
Some I sold to the end user, some I sold in a bulk sale of thousands of .ca domains to a domain holding company, some I actually let drop. In fact, at least 4 of the domains in that list that I _dropped_ were subsequently registered, not sure if by a domainer or the end user.
Strangely, one domain in that list is a very recent acquisition of mine (less than a month). And even stranger, I decided to experiment with a buy-now button and a buyer has already hit the buy now button on it and created an account at Escrow.com this weekend - not sure if they'll follow through, but the transaction was started, just waiting for payment to come through.
It just goes to show you that one man's trash is another man's treasure. So next time you're thinking of dropping a domain, just remember I dropped at least 4 that wound up in the top 5000 .CA websites list. Doh!