cctld March 2nd 2011 TBR

[Daddys4]

final price for dental $1803 (plus HST of course)

 

[JonathanR]

gut.ca went for $331

 

[Daddys4]

i won redemption and occupied. what i will i do with them g-d only knows.
maybe redemption.ca can be a site dedicated to Bob Marley.
while occupied.ca can be a site for bathroom stalls.
just joking of course

 

[A D]

occupied.ca could be a neat web development company, after you build the site it would then be occupied.ca

-=DCG=-

 

[Daddys4]

occupied.ca could be a neat web development company, after you build the site it would then be occupied.ca

-=DCG=-

how about a site where people can tell there stories of living in a one bathroom house, with four kids.

 

[fwdtech]

Msn, what names you are talking about? Perhaps not everyone who bids on Pool.com has access to Dnforum.com

It could be.

When one could check who picked up names, I would ask them if they were on the forum.

It gets frustrating trying to hawk a domain here for $5., and watch someone then pay $60 to Pool.
(I didn't post troutlake.ca, because I'm tired of wasting time).

I think the person who picked up piechart.ca a few years ago might check the forum from time to time.

 

[onlinestoreca]

It gets frustrating trying to hawk a domain here for $5., and watch someone then pay $60 to Pool.
(I didn't post troutlake.ca, because I'm tired of wasting time).

I would love to have access to all the people that look at the TBR. Almost every name I drop is picked up for $60 minimum, some have gone for much more. I am at a point where I am afraid to drop names. I can't tell you how many names I have dropped that I now regret because I couldn't think of a use at the time, but now I can think of several.

The problem is, if everyone had access to the "TBR market" to sell their domains, or if there was a big centralized market like realtors using MLS, there would be a huge overabundance of decent domain names and most wouldn't sell for $10.

I think it is still going to be a long while before it is a seller's market. The question is, is it worth investing in a "decent" domain that may not sell for 10 years. One problem is that the technology might change by the time it's a seller's market. For example, search engines will probably be able to distinguish a Canadian website without having to be a .ca. There will also be changes that we can't even anticipate.

Please note that I am not talking about quality names, just decent names that are not selling but get picked up in the TBR.

 

[Provider]

I would love to have access to all the people that look at the TBR. Almost every name I drop is picked up for $60 minimum, some have gone for much more. I am at a point where I am afraid to drop names. I can't tell you how many names I have dropped that I now regret because I couldn't think of a use at the time, but now I can think of several.

The problem is, if everyone had access to the "TBR market" to sell their domains, or if there was a big centralized market like realtors using MLS, there would be a huge overabundance of decent domain names and most wouldn't sell for $10.

I think it is still going to be a long while before it is a seller's market. The question is, is it worth investing in a "decent" domain that may not sell for 10 years. One problem is that the technology might change by the time it's a seller's market. For example, search engines will probably be able to distinguish a Canadian website without having to be a .ca. There will also be changes that we can't even anticipate.

Please note that I am not talking about quality names, just decent names that are not selling but get picked up in the TBR.

I think the problem is related to our unrealistic price expectations. Some of us don't understand why their domain name was picked up during TBR run, but on the other hand we should ask ourselves if we would sell the domain name for $15-60 if somebody had approached us. Pool.com has a price of $60+tax=$67, but there are other registrars that catch decent domain names for a lot less, for example MYID.ca ($18), namespro.ca ($17), Sibername ($35). But no, we won't sell the domain name for $18 to anybody, in fact most of us will be offended to hear that price from the potential buyer .

OnlineStore.ca is right, this is not a seller's market in .ca marketplace, but it may never be. One of the worst things that can happen to .ca domain name space is allowing everyone int he world to register domain .ca domain names. It can actually turn out to be the best thing for domainers holding .ca assets. OnlineStore, CallingCards.ca is a great name btw!

 

[whitebark]

I also see many of my drops picked up each week after being offered here on clearance. It's rather funny to see people waste their money but then I think the people doing that are the ones who are not supposed to be owning .ca domains to begin with, and can only do so with any cloaking via the tbr...

 

[msn]

I also see many of my drops picked up each week after being offered here on clearance. It's rather funny to see people waste their money but then I think the people doing that are the ones who are not supposed to be owning .ca domains to begin with, and can only do so with any cloaking via the tbr...

That might be a valid suspicion: it appears to be common for Pool.com to acquire a .ca domain but the domain registration remains in the name of Pool for years afterwards, or into the Pool anonymous registrant service.

If you think about it, Pool.com is the main 'international' TBR outfit for .ca domain registrations, and its customer base is likely similarly international.

That is not to say MyID and Sibername do not also have non-Canadian registrants, just that Pool is a natural source for these customers.

 

[DomainSpace]

What I cannot get is why people pay Pool $60 for domains that were already offered here for $10 and $20.

What bugs me is I also used to own fulltimejobs and I offered it for sale on this site with no offers (it was with some other domains being offered). I dropped the name and it sells at pool for 1650 at tbr.. :upset: ...

 

[msn]

What bugs me is I also used to own fulltimejobs and I offered it for sale on this site with no offers (it was with some other domains being offered). I dropped the name and it sells at pool for 1650 at tbr.. :upset: ...

While that is frustrating, it is also frustrating for us, since some people offer domains a few hours before the registration is to be deleted, and I cannot stay up all night waiting for e-mail from people.

Generally, we buy quite a number of domains, and it is always a good idea to PM a list with bottom-line prices well in advance of deleting domain names.

 

[Provider]

I think it will be good to see all these expiring domain names in one thread somewhere

 

[JonathanR]

I might be guilty of buying domains for too much in TBR, but I did end up getting honk.ca in this TBR for $110. I THINK that's a pretty good price as the name has lots of potential. But what do you guys think, did I overpay?

 

[Provider]

I think you guys mistaken about dental.ca. If you type in google inurl:dental.ca you will see that there are hundreds of .ca sites that finish with the word dental. It is used as a noun basically.

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re: honk.ca

I don't think you overpaid. Good name for a marketing company and for many other topics

 

[msn]

I think you guys mistaken about dental.ca. If you type in google inurl:dental.ca you will see that there are hundreds of .ca sites that finish with the word dental. It is used as a noun basically.

Technically, it is still used as an adjective - the registrants use 'dental' in place of 'dentalclinic' to keep things short.

But the art is in finding the right word - or term - that could stand in for dental clinic and is yet unused or under-used: when you find that, you will have found gold.

 

[fwdtech]

i won redemption and occupied. what i will i do with them g-d only knows.
maybe redemption.ca can be a site dedicated to Bob Marley.
while occupied.ca can be a site for bathroom stalls.
just joking of course

Can you give an idea of what you'll do with occupied ?
(The last price that I saw for dental pre-auction was 700, so I'm assuming occupied cost more than that, right? So, there must be a plan of some kind.)

 

[Daddys4]

Can you give an idea of what you'll do with occupied ?
(The last price that I saw for dental pre-auction was 700, so I'm assuming occupied cost more than that, right? So, there must be a plan of some kind.)

i really haven't decided what i will do with occupied.ca. To be honest with you i don't do much with my domains but hold them.
I'm open to suggestions if you have any.