Originally Posted by seeric

alot of people are finally realizing that having keyword phrase domains is not as advantageous as it used to be. i myself have dropped hundreds of exact match term domains because they are less of a factor in search scoring than they once were. i've been able to rank terms on unrelated domains, so its less necessary to own the exact match domain, so that's one reason you see more drops. i would suppose one of the other reasons is people just aren't hoarding domains as a result of trimming fat and dumping unnecessary assets in an effort to streamline their businesses in a trying economy.