i could part with a number of dotca's but for the most part I think I would prefer to wait..... and wait..... and wait. I didn;t easily see anywhere to submit domains. Selling to other domainers just seems odd because you know they want if for the least while you want to sell it for the most. It just doesn't seem like the right place to sell a domain name. Maybe I just have it all wrong.
You might have a different perspective depending upon your income and the size of holdings. We are still buying new domains each month, but many folks are leaving the game, even people with larger 1000+ registrations portfolios. If you are someone who gets $20 per month from parking and you have to maintain 50, 60, 70, or 150, 200 domains you might decide to find a different way to get rich quick.
Actually, what we have started to test is freeholding domains: we assume to renewal costs for a set of domains but do not pay any 'purchase price' for the registration itself. We then pool the domains to achieve higher earnings and then pay the owner the difference if there is a greater earnings than the cost of maintaining the registrations. If it is a loss, we credit the difference.
For instance, if abc123.ca gets $13.25 per year in earnings, and we have a renewal at CIRA, which is $10 in our system, the owner is paid $3.25 but if abc123.ca only earns $8.91 for the year, the domain actually lost $1.19, and we credit that amount so the original owner pays nothing.
Once we get to the point of developing one of those domains, we then agree a purchase or a revenue split, and if there is a sale we split the sales value.
So domain holders no longer have to deal with negative cash flow to hold domains but still get the upside of a sale or development.