For Sale Showcase your .ca's

[Beaker]

Got a few decent names today, but narrowly missed getting an auction name which I really really wanted - I'm curious to see who the winner turns out to be. Looks like I'll be rubbing elbows with several of you at the pool auctions (I'm in 9).

And to those using a script to run your auctions on namespro/sibername - beat yah today! :lol:

Do people really use scripts for bidding? I've been curious about that possiblity, but I always imagine the terrifying scenario of a bug in the code adding on an extra zero or two by accident Instead, I'm one of those people who tends to bid late in the auction manually, but I've been bitten numerous times doing that - lost internet connections, poor timing and such.

I think it'd be interesting to see a TBR auction with a completely blind bid where the domain went to highest bidder pre-drop - but where they publish all bids after the auction is over so you adjust strategy for next time around.

 

[hugegrowth]

Can I ask everyone here their opinion on hyphenated .ca's when the ovt is 7 figures w/o the ext?

Has to be a very strong two word commercial term for me. I don't have any hyphened .ca's, maybe a couple .com's and .info's

For search engines the hyphen doesn't matter. For print advertising it's so so because people might forget to use the hyphen. For word of mouth and radio advertising it doesn't work. On another thread someone said they have good luck with hyphen domain sales because end-users don't mind them at all. Maybe it is just us domainers who don't like them.

Check some strong two word terms with hyphens and you'll see most have been regged in multiple extensions. I also see hyphen domains used in advertising from time to time.

 

[whitebark]

With an ovt of over 1 million they make good mini-sites - hyphen or not. And they come much cheaper than the non-hyphen domain from a reseller.

 

[catchiedomains]

Thanks for the replies. I have a couple of .ca's with hyphens that have indexed very well but these have web sites.

 

[sudesh]

Anyone knows about the auctions today?? ebook.ca was on and wonder what it fetched...

 

[whitebark]

Anyone knows about the auctions today?? ebook.ca was on and wonder what it fetched...

Just over $1300

The other was canadianfiction - it went to some schmuck called whitebark.

 

[sudesh]

Just over $1300

Thanks and that was not bad.. I wish I was in that auction... must have been a steal!!!

The other was canadianfiction - it went to some schmuck called whitebark.

LOL.. Congradulations.. hope you did not pay a fortune for that..

 

[blue777]

just one
grate.ca

 

[sudesh]

just one
grate.ca

wish it was great.ca .. would have been great!!!!!

 

[whitebark]

LOL.. Congradulations.. hope you did not pay a fortune for that..

No, I paid more than I wanted to but it will make a nice amazon affiliate website and will make it back within a few months.

ebook would make a nice website too, but I suspect it will just get parked.

 

[Beaker]

A few others from the pool auction (a few good deals, unfortunately I missed the auction close):
9000.ca $100
CheckCashing.ca $170
Fireball.ca $310
MotherGoose.ca $80
Simulation.ca $160
Swordfish.ca $605

I won't post the price for canadianfiction.ca, but suffice to say it was a good deal also

 

[PeterMan]

I have my eye on one particular name on the list for tomorrow, hoping I get it cheap...

Recently I have been registering a few new .cas and I am liking some of them a lot, for reg fee I have gotten the following in the last few weeks:

Gastric.ca
Foggy.ca
Smoother.ca
Zane.ca
Sews.ca
Mastodon.ca
HomeCareNurse.ca
SkinnyDip.ca
Prolong.ca
Bobble.ca

Some of these are already getting a few typeins a day... I am really on a .ca kick right now and I am really thinking that .ca is a great investment...

k:

 

[RazorNF]

Yeah, I'd have to agree with you. I'm still surprising myself with the occasional small gems that I've been able to hand-reg...

 

[hugegrowth]

my last .ca hand reg was wineforum .ca

 

[liberator]

some hand reg I picked up lately are:

AlarmServices.ca
Fixed-Rate.ca
LocalProperty.ca
MarketOutlook.ca
PatentCheck.ca
PrimeMarket.ca
RealGirls.ca
RealtyTrends.ca
iWebsite(s).ca
Remodels.ca
Discrete.ca
Slimed.ca

among others.. I'm as well pretty hooked on the .ca investment

 

[Jacksplat]

9000.ca $100

I bid double that in pre-auction at another registrar.

What is the best hand reg any of you have done in .ca over the last year. Include rev/traffic if you can. I'll go check my best and get back tonight with it. Then for fun maybe we can show our best tbr grab.. perhaps based on complete luck.

Kevin

 

[nafti]

I hand reg. cfrb1010.ca sometime last year. Gets on average of over 300 visits per month. Not a whole lot of visitors but the keywords pay decent with a decent click-thru ratio.

 

[Jacksplat]

gg strange repeat post

 

[Jacksplat]

Hand Reg: limewirepro .ca US$ 25.04 522 334 % 63.98 US$ 0.07 US$ 47.98
Almost a year old, Not big money but i never tried hard either. im 2 and a half times returning investment.

Lucky Drop: 011 .ca US$ 242.88 2336 700 % 29.97 US$ 0.35 US$ 103.97
I've had it just over a year, didnt park it right away thinking it was just another number.. saw traffic and made a ppc site for a few months and eventually reparked it at namedrive where it earns avg 1$ a day. I almost didnt go for this name. Now I love it.

 

[whitebark]

carecard.ca has been my most consistent hand reg. 5 or more uniques a day since I regged it in the summer. Decent return as well.

Recent fresh reg -
onlinestock(s).ca
TOTAL 51 23 $718.24 45.10% $1.59 $36.63 - 25 days at Parked and the singular does about half of the plural.