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True, it is Frank Schilling, but actually BVI do now sell domains, or at least they are taking offers on them. They started to offer domains for sale via an "express an interest in buying" pro forma through proformainc.com about a month ago. Read up on it at Mike Cohen's Wanna Develop Blog Frank Schilling and Kevin Ham Domains Available For Sale
If you want someone who works with Frank try @TiaWood on Twitter or at Domain Development - TiaWood.com - as she is one of the designer / developers he uses and she's into that whole Twitter domainer gang. Frank himself is @FrankSchilling, and after a long break he has been Tweeting again in the last few weeks.
Hope it helps, but drop me an email / pm if you need more info.
my point is normally people make more mistakes when starting out and based on what i've seen bought .uk wise in the last few years would lead me to assume he's not actually personally buying every single name...?
Nothing comforting about that, in that it doesn't make anyone else's junk less junky.
When your portfolio earns you $20 million a year (see articles above) you can afford to make "mistakes" that people with regular-sized wallets can't. In other words, you have much more room for error and still do very well. In fact, it's less surprising that he has some junk names than it is that people with a few hundred names have junk names - he can afford them, they probably can't.