.ca problem: Someone bought the .ca of my very active .com local web site - help?

[Domagon]

MediaHound- I was thinking the exact same thing at first ... and often that's how it works out - the .com getting more traffic, etc.

However, the original poster says their site is aimed primarily towards a very specific local Canadian market, which is referenced in the domain name ... thus is an instance in which there could be more "spillover" the opposite way - that is from the .COM to the .CA.

Ron

[MediaHound]

Well this guy should have gotten a trademark if it was so important.
or the measley .ca variant
Welcome to the world of domains, orange!

[sleddogrob]

Business Location:United States
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Orange,

First off you should change your online profile….

How come you just did not drop the ten bucks on the dot ca when your dot com site started getting so popular?

$1750 on a CIRA dispute…. Hmmm you could buy 175 dot ca’s.

$ 300 on a lawyer to write a letter….. 30 dot ca’s

I really do not think you have much to worry about. Canadians myself included tend to still surf dot com sites before dot ca’s.

“Wow, 6 posts since you signed up in 2003, and you bother to post something as pointless as this.”

Come on Orange you only have ten posts and they are all related to you not spending ten bucks. Be nice, some people just read and learn from the pros here on the site. I suggest you do the same.

Be a real Canuck and suck it up.

[orange]

“Wow, 6 posts since you signed up in 2003, and you bother to post something as pointless as this.”

some people just read and learn from the pros here on the site. I suggest you do the same.

DomainTrader isn't some newbie though -- regardless of my opinion of his attitude, he is a pro. Given that until this thread, he posted less than 1.5 times *per year*, then I think the fact that he peppered his "yearly post" with snide insults illustrates how it was unnecessary for him to go out of his way to bother posting it.

[ShaunP]

Next time be smarter and spend the $10 and register the .ca. It would save you the hassle and us the melodrama. Getting a thicker skin might help to.

Have a great day.

Shaun

[sleddogrob]

Hey Orange,

Hope you have not been frightened off. A thick skin as mentioned by aactive does help around here. Consider all the posts as a learning experience. Take what you think is the good and the bad and make your best judgment.

Good Luck!

[dtobias]

I'm mostly miffed at these guys taking the .ca because it throws a monkey-wrench into the network idea.

If you're looking to start a network of sites with related addresses, you're best off getting a single good "base" domain and using subdomain addresses of it for all the sites; those can't be "cybersquatted", and you can have a limitless number of them which unambiguously indicate their relationship to one another. I do that with my various sites under dan.info.