discuss Using keyword search volume to determine domain value

[Landov]

City.tips was sold for $7,500 to an end user.
com, net, info, org, co.uk for citytips are taken.

Google Adwords gives a search volume of 50/month for city tips, extremely low.
For cities, the search volume is 50,000, which is high.

Did the buyer considered the second search volume when he paid that sum? It is correct?

Or there are other reasons for city.tips and citytips to be valuable?

 

[Shams]

As far i know keyword domains doesn't matter anymore because of google recent update. There's differnt between exact match and broad match searches which you already know. Most buyers still consider exact match searches instead of broad match searches. Obviously we search in a specific terms.
Like. Cities in USA.
USA cities tips or cities tips
Who will search city only.