For Sale Awesome news!!!!

[DropWizard.com]

If two of our esteemed members here would out themselves you're going to see one hell of a week on DNJournal tomorrow or next week:approve:

 

[Kamloops]

Thats it? More of a hint than that please?

 

[Irish31]

Ah, a possibility that they will keep it private? Can be tempting to do, but big sales are good for everyone if they hit the public sector. Testify my .CA friends!!! spill the beans.

 

[maroulis]

Shaun and who else? Congrats Shaun btw

 

[DomainsInc]

Someone has already posted about it on another board.

 

[Zoobar]

Congrats Rob & Shaun.

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/...d=news_view&newsId=20080506005670&newsLang=en

 

[BELLC1]

Someone has already posted about it on another board.

And??

 

[maroulis]

Congrats Rob & Shaun.

ahh.. Rob.. nice...

 

[Irish31]

600k. That... is... alot for a .CA

 

[liberator]

Congrats!!!

 

[MediaHound]

Good deal for both buyer and seller, congrats Shaun and Rob!

 

[djallan]

Great name. Great price. Great news for the .ca name space.
Should get more publicity for the .ca extension than the million domains registered news.

 

[DropWizard.com]

Well now that they have been outed by more people here is the link shaun sent me.

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080506/20080506005670.html?.v=1

And if that isn't enough to blow your mind here is what else they were doing in their spare time.

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/...d=news_view&newsId=20080506005676&newsLang=en

The .ca news of course is AWESOME and something we can point at when negotiating other premiums.

 

[mogtnomr]

Hey guys, thanks for the congrats.

I just wanted to take the opportunity to point out why we were willing to buy it at that price... Traffic. Jobs.ca has a lot of traffic, and thats what justified the price. We followed up the Jobs.ca deal with a purchase of JobSearch.ca, and that has a ton of traffic too (and was frankly a better bang-for-the-buck from the traffic perspective than even Jobs.ca was).

As you know, many great generic .CA domains just don't have traffic. I know that well because I own many of them. Jobs.ca was a big exception to that rule. And strangely enough, JobSearch.ca is a big exception to that rule as well - it gets over 1000 unique visitors each day on its own. So just keep the traffic issue in perspective when buying and selling domains. A name is only worth so much from a branding perspective. So just be smart and analyze your purchases carefully. In my book - traffic is the only real proof a domain is _really_ valuable and will stand the test of time.

FYI - the best place to see what Shaun and I are up to is at http://ogopogomedia.com .

Cheers,
Rob

 

[simon]

congrats Rob and Shaun and good luck with the names

 

[raceway]

Nice sale! Very impressive, congrats! This is a good example of how the .ca market is heating up.