For Sale Showcase your .ca's

[Jacksplat]

Eby T beat me out in one auction, I'm suprised he went so freeking high. I guess he's makin decent revenue and wants more names. Next time I'm neck and neck with him I'll throw in my beer money and drive the price up.

Hook up with me in msn Roy. I got some stuff I'd like to talk to you off-forum.

 

[hugegrowth]

does anyone know what ET does with his names? does he just park them?

Frankly I don't see what names could go for super high in this past week's tbr, there were some good names but no home runs. Can anyone point out some of the top names from the week's tbr?

 

[Jacksplat]

he parks em. He's rented/leased a few too.

He might have relevant sites, but I've never seen one.

 

[whitebark]

Most of ET's seem to be parked - some I have come across have no dns set.

 

[hugegrowth]

What kind of business model is that for .ca? Sure some must get some traffic, but with that many names and some not parked, they all can't be getting enough traffic to cover the renewals. Am I missing something here?

 

[whitebark]

What kind of business model is that for .ca? Sure some must get some traffic, but with that many names and some not parked, they all can't be getting enough traffic to cover the renewals. Am I missing something here?

Good question and I would like to know of the 780,825 .ca's registered how many are actually developed? 50%? 60% or is that too optimistic?

 

[DropWizard.com]

What kind of business model is that for .ca? Sure some must get some traffic, but with that many names and some not parked, they all can't be getting enough traffic to cover the renewals. Am I missing something here?

He allows his names to go into suspension for 28-29 days each year which costs him around 8.33% of potential revenue. Given that around 20% of the domains pay for the other 80% (and hopefully a profit) I'm amazed that he allows this and has domains without nameservers :uhoh:

 

[hugegrowth]

I would think either one of two things:

1) he has other sources of income that cover his domain renewals, or

2) his good .ca's are SO GOOD that he can do this and not lose money.

either way I think the .ca market lags the .com market, in that the top portfolio holders of .com quality names have only just started having the time or inclination to move away from parking and into development.

in .ca, many are still focusing on acquisition through decent names still available to reg, and the TBR every week. maybe as we see how the .com people develop their portfolio, the .ca people will follow along. it's hard to focus on develpment only when you know there still might be good names out there to get. in .com, you are very unlikely to score a quality name through a reg or a drop anymore (without huge $$$)

also, having a developed site in the future may be as simple as parking is now - meaning places like domainsponsor or afternic will be able to give domainers a 'mini-developed' site for their domain and split the revenue, much like parking works now. I think a lot of domainers would go for that if it was turn-key simple.

 

[DNP]

best-mortgage.ca

 

[whitebark]

Eight of my auctions all end ended this morning. I got three, maybe four as one seems to have disappeared from pool's system.

affiliatesales.ca is going to make a nice profitable website.

513.ca went for $90 - I was going to grab it too, but just plain ran out of money! LOL

obvious.ca went for $160. Not sure on that one so I let it go.

 

[DOTCA]

Congrats on affiliatesales.ca. 513.ca at 90 would have been good too I think. But wonder who got it?? Any other intresting bids??

 

[hugegrowth]

off topic - my last .ca reg was freegan.ca
read an article on it over the weekend, will make an interesting information site.

 

[whitebark]

off topic - my last .ca reg was freegan.ca
read an article on it over the weekend, will make an interesting information site.

Isn't that a fancy word for dumpster divers?:smilewinkgrin:

Congrats on affiliatesales.ca. 513.ca at 90 would have been good too I think. But wonder who got it?? Any other intresting bids??

Thanks! I also got condoshopping .ca and I believe I was bidding on bargainshopping .ca but it seems to have disappeared!

Erupt.ca went for $70
Cleaner.ca earlier this week from last week's drop went for $625.
701.ca finished at $575

On another forum it was reported that some of last week's two character .ca's went for $80!

Anyone have any others to report?

 

[hugegrowth]

Isn't that a fancy word for dumpster divers?:smilewinkgrin:

Pretty much yes. I first saw the word in an article about freeganism in the weekend Globe and Mail. I think it can make a nice site along the lines of what could be done with 'vegetarian' or 'vegan'. Freegan.info is a developed site but most other extensions are parked. Aside from the dumpster diving, Freegans seem to be going for a less complicated lifestyle and less consumerism.

I love finding new words like this and then finding them unregged. Same way I regged Macau.ca and Macao.ca , just read about the place in the G&M one weekend.

 

[PeterMan]

Anyone going for sydneycrosby.ca? I know it is not the correct spelling, I am just wondering if people feel that ownign this domain could lead to problems? I am not interested in it really, just curious...

 

[Jacksplat]

People have been going after 3 number .ca's but as a reseller your shooting craps on those (unless you know it has use) to pay 90$ as a reseller is not good. last year there were so many available to reg at 10$ canadian. Even this year many could be regged. Recently the rest were regged by domainers for the most part. 3 number .coms have value, .nets are hard to sell at 1k even, .ca number domains are not a good way to blow a hundred bucks. even 2 number .ca's were in tbr at 300$ not even a year ago, recently domainers are wanting two or three thousand but that too is asking alot with consideration to what you can get for that same price and has traffic. Remember numbers and letters in .ca arent loaded with traffic. I do have a couple with traffic but thats rare and they are relevant to a meaning.

Anyway, I'm not knocking 3number .ca or 3letter .ca I'm only hoping to enlighten and show that for the dollars spent, more can be made and quicker.

Kevin.

 

[whitebark]

Good points Kevin.

327 which I got last week is averaging 3 uniques a day and with a 50% CTR, so I can't complain thus far - and I certainly didn't bust the bank to get it like some of the other NNN's that were going in the low $xxx's. Besides that - I'm going develop them all.

I certainly wouldn't pay $575 for 701.ca but then again maybe I'm just cheap.

Does anyone know what happened to bargainshopping.ca? I was bidding on it but it seems to have disappeared from pool's system. Who got it and how much? My email server keeps timing out so I can't see if i got winning notification or not.

 

[Jacksplat]

i like 327 and 442.. mainly cuza the engines.. i bid on those and would have gone higher for sure.

that carmagic.ca is busy too.. cabinetmakers also, and sme others.

 

[rmacdon]

Just registered an interesting .ca, it looks like there is a .com site for it thus the popularity - don't want to give out the name but it is made up of pretty ordinary words. Anyway, the first day got 100 views, second day got 400 views and the third day (today) is getting about 400 as well. Pretty neat for a fresh registration - it also has an OVT w/extension value. Be nice if the traffic stays up.
Cheers!
Rob

 

[hugegrowth]

.ca was back on the sales charts this week, led by

source: http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm

CanadaComputers.ca 16.0k
Trent.ca 5.6k
HouseValue.ca 3.2k
ToysAreUs.ca 2.6k
DriveClean.ca 2.4k
Sweaters.ca 2.2k
eShops.ca 2.2k
Crap.ca 2.2k

In addition to all of those charted .ca domains, Pool piled up 20 more just off the chart. (see link for those 20 domains)

As if those weren't enough, Pool sold over 40 more .ca domains ranging from $500 to $850.

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After being shut out of the cctld sales for weeks, .ca is back baby!