ftaylor, thank you for your insight and opinion on this.
My reason for questioning this is this:
A example of one of my domains that I developed.
www.TheGameReviews.com , now normally you would appraise this domain as less than reg fee right? It has "THE" in it, and only 4300 results for "the game reviews".
7.62 Million for "Game Reviews" and 12.5 Million for Game Reviews.
6 months after launching this domain I rank for Game Reviews, "Game Reviews" on the first page and too many to count long tail game name game reviews type terms. The site generates $X,XXX every month in ad sales.
Now, I did this with almost no effort since people naturally link to the domain as "as seen on The Game Reviews", and attained the rank solidly after 6 months.
This is only one example of this that I have. So I still question the validity of quotes as a restriction when appraising domains.