For Sale Showcase your .ca's

[spidergoat]

hey, I'm posting next to you and I bought wireless.ca (thanks again - very professional and courteous transaction). had to buy it as I am trying to corner the canadian mobile banking trend. I also own:

mobilebank / mobilebanks / mobilebanking.ca
and banquemobile / banqueenligne.ca for the french side of things.

My favourite right now is ...

whiskies.ca

Canadian whiskies are huge around the world ... and with recent sale of Vodka.com liquor domains are hot.

 

[whitebark]

442.ca $350? Am I the only surprised by that?

 

[Irish31]

Somewhat, but not entirely. Aren't all NNN gone? or almost gone? a NNN that shares the same number twice might be a big thing now...

I guess nothing is really suprising me anymore. I find it confusing that names that get fought over at auction can sit at less then that on sales forums like here for months...

 

[whitebark]

Somewhat, but not entirely. Aren't all NNN gone? or almost gone? a NNN that shares the same number twice might be a big thing now...

I guess nothing is really suprising me anymore. I find it confusing that names that get fought over at auction can sit at less then that on sales forums like here for months...

Agreed. Maybe it's just the auction atmosphere that gets people paying more than they would otherwise? Maybe not enough 'buying' eyes see the domains on forums like this, though I would suspect most .ca players would know of this forum...

There are less than 50 NNN's left - all starting with 0.

 

[ShaunP]

Agreed. Maybe it's just the auction atmosphere that gets people paying more than they would otherwise? Maybe not enough 'buying' eyes see the domains on forums like this, though I would suspect most .ca players would know of this forum...

There are less than 50 NNN's left - all starting with 0.

I think some are missing the point. Better to overpay for one good .ca name, that overpay for a 100's useless names that many do in the .ca space. IMHO

Shaun

 

[whitebark]

I think some are missing the point. Better to overpay for one good .ca name, that overpay for a 100's useless names that many do in the .ca space. IMHO

Shaun

Then why is that when some very good .ca domains come up for sale on forums like this they often go unsold? These tbr domains are going for more in the auctions than they would be sold for on the open market.

 

[ShaunP]

Then why is that when some very good .ca domains come up for sale on forums like this they often go unsold? These tbr domains are going for more in the auctions than they would be sold for on the open market.

Names in auctions often go for more than in general sales forums, but it doesn't change the fact that crappy names are still crappy names...if you have 500 crappy names ...then you have a lot of worthless names.

In terms of "very good .ca" names up for sale...I haven't seen many .. can you give a some recent examples?

Shaun

 

[hugegrowth]

Does anyone have a link where you can see the bids on this week's TBR?

I had a link for the Namespro one but it got deleted.

 

[DropWizard.com]

Then why is that when some very good .ca domains come up for sale on forums like this they often go unsold? These tbr domains are going for more in the auctions than they would be sold for on the open market.

I think when they go to auction everybody understands there are probably multiple bidders and they bid accordingly. I know I bid according to the max I will pay and I don't worry about overbidding (especially when it's someone elses thinking that it's overbid).

When an individual puts a name up for sale they are a lot more vulnerable to the assumption that they are in distress & need the money and accordingly are suceptible to low bidding. From that follows the thought that the domain isn't that good otherwise they wouldn't have to sell it :uhoh:

My thoughts anyway

Gordon

(the domain psychiatrist is "in" ) :greensleep:

 

[hugegrowth]

well I found the link to the TBR on namespro, good names this week that I put bids on are

inga.ca
loulou.ca
germanfood.ca
kakuro.ca

Other than those, the rest seem mostly seem like 'brandable' type domains and could have some value to certain companies. There are six names with bids of $100 or more, maybe these get some traffic or have high links, but I can't see which names these are. 45 names have bids, the highest is about $303.

 

[PeterMan]

442.ca $350? Am I the only surprised by that?

Yes I saw that... I got 283.ca last time and I did not pay that much...

 

[ShaunP]

well I found the link to the TBR on namespro, good names this week that I put bids on are

inga.ca
loulou.ca
germanfood.ca
kakuro.ca

Other than those, the rest seem mostly seem like 'brandable' type domains and could have some value to certain companies. There are six names with bids of $100 or more, maybe these get some traffic or have high links, but I can't see which names these are. 45 names have bids, the highest is about $303.

I let loulou.ca drop because I received a C & D. Pursue at your own risk.

Shaun

PS ...you never answered my earlier post above about "very good" .ca names for sale going unsold...

 

[hugegrowth]

I thought loulou would be generic, who knew? I wonder why they didn't want you to transfer the name to them.

It wasn't me who mentioned the "very good" .ca names here, but I can sort of see their point. Just scanning through the .ca for sale section on this forum, I see some good and some not so good IMO. The better names seem to have higher asking prices which may be why people don't buy. Because I don't follow the drops and see what prices are paid for which names, it's hard to tell if the names here are similar. I think Dropwizard had a good point, that if names are sold here people assume they aren't as good or else the person wouldn't be selling them. The auction setting is more exciting and takes out the haggling over price.

 

[PeterMan]

You often see very good .com names go unsold too because sellers here want end user prices and buyers want reseller prices...

 

[hugegrowth]

Ok, lets talk names. Here are some what I consider good to very good .ca's for sale in this forum - I haven't included names I have for sale, but they would be here too ofcourse

98
heatingcontractor
fright
camcorders
payment
developer
nfld
blowing
onlinegroceries
cheapfuel
carfacts
airlinedeals
clicked
onlinealbum

All of these could easily be developed into some sort of website, or a name like '98' has value just because it's NN. I'm not even thinking traffic here, just if the keywords make sense, are they memorable, etc.

 

[ShaunP]

Huge:

Developing "successful" websites is NOT easy. And you can go bankrupt buying brandable names. I would register a few of those names from your list, but I wouldn't pay much more above that. Dot ca is a tough market and names without traffic have a hard time getting much in resale overall. IMHO.

Shaun

 

[Jacksplat]

a 3 number.ca is only worth reg fee at this point unless the numbers have significance. A little hyperactivity recently has some collectors scrambling with the hope of a good investment.. as far as i see it the useless NNN.ca wont rise in value to anyone but a collector who in fact wont pay much unless its in tbr unfortunately. I do have some NNN but i dont expect much and the NNN i have either have significance, get traffic, earn revenue in parking, or are part of a set of ten or so.

in one place someone is bidding 150 for 513.ca and there's still a day before 0 hour.

 

[hugegrowth]

I agree, but I haven't seen many .ca that get type in traffic unless

1. they are strong generic words, or
2. typos/variants of established popular .ca or .com sites, or
3. the exact .ca domain of a popular .com site

even utube.ca has some overture w/ext.

guaranteed traffic domains are the best strategy, but having strong keyword names or good brandable type domains can also work if you develop the names, because then you can get some search engine traffic.

I think a keyword name like 'homegym' is valuable even if it has no traffic, because xx,xxx searches are done for that term every month. website development is getting cheaper so to build a 1-5 page site for domains like this can work. Every year there seems to be more that you can do with domains than just park.

Many big portfolio holders of generic terms are only starting to develop their names in the last year or so - and take them off parking pages. It's cheaper/easier to add content now that ever before. I think this will be the trend, to have at least some content on pages instead of parking only.

Keyword .ca's have been bought up over the years by the biggest .ca holders, and I'm betting they all don't get traffic.

With $1,000 a person can keep about 75 .ca domains regged every year, so this isn't a large investment to at least have a foot in the domain market.
I think .ca is established well enough in Canada, and there are so many people out there that will need domains in the future for business, etc., which will push the secondary market up.

These are just my thoughts. Like I mentioned, I do agree that you can't go wrong with traffic names. I personally have a mix in my portfolio. My biggest problem right now is developping pages for all my domains, and making them into at least some kind of information source for the keywords.

Domainers should think of themselves as being in the 'Media' business. So with a domain like 'airlinedeals', put up at least a small site with some travel articles, some Adsense, and maybe a travel affiliate program or two, for example.

a 3 number.ca is only worth reg fee at this point

I always say a domain is worth what someone is willing to pay for it.

 

[sudesh]

Nice information.. keep it going please

 

[DropWizard.com]

Ok, lets talk names. Here are some what I consider good to very good .ca's for sale in this forum - I haven't included names I have for sale, but they would be here too ofcourse

98
heatingcontractor
fright
camcorders
payment
developer
nfld
blowing
onlinegroceries
cheapfuel
carfacts
airlinedeals
clicked
onlinealbum

All of these could easily be developed into some sort of website, or a name like '98' has value just because it's NN. I'm not even thinking traffic here, just if the keywords make sense, are they memorable, etc.

OK I would pare this list down to:

98
camcorders
nfld
carfacts
airlinedeals

These are the only ones I think are worth pursuing. ( I didn't look at links) I haven't seen any pricing except for camcorders and knowing what typein traffic to expect on a .ca it is a development project for me to buy at the price asked. And I already have enough of those.

.CA is still keyword rich in unregistered domains. I think many would rather try mining than pay a premium price for something like camcorders. (Although frankly I consider the price quite reasonable. If I was selling it would be considerably higher)