For Sale Showcase your .ca's

[Beaker]

A few prices from Pool's TBR auction today in case anyone is curious:
cues.ca $420
gauge.ca $950
rollercoaster.ca $800
royalflush.ca $555
timer.ca $490

 

[Premiumhosted]

Volkswagen.ca went for $7,300... I hope it was Volkswagen buying it!

I managed to pick up a couple nice names, anybody else?

 

[whitebark]

I let the domains i was in auction for go. Auction fever has some paying far more than comparable domains can be bought for on the open market.

rollercoaster.ca for example. Who here thinks that would command that much on a domain forum? If someone here paid that much sorry but I think you far overpaid. It has an okay ovt - but most of that is probably kids looking for the cheesy game.

Sometimes I have to shake my head in amazement at what people will or will not pay for a .ca.

For $800 I can buy 70 fresh reg .ca's with higher ovt and more potential than that.

 

[ShaunP]

I let the domains i was in auction for go. Auction fever has some paying far more than comparable domains can be bought for on the open market.

rollercoaster.ca for example. Who here thinks that would command that much on a domain forum? If someone here paid that much sorry but I think you far overpaid. It has an okay ovt - but most of that is probably kids looking for the cheesy game.

Sometimes I have to shake my head in amazement at what people will or will not pay for a .ca.

For $800 I can buy 70 fresh reg .ca's with higher ovt and more potential than that.

Whitebark.

You are right. However, as you can see by many of the names posted in this and other .ca threads, you also have to shake your head in amazement at what people will register.

Both make me shake my head.

Shaun

 

[whitebark]

Very true Shaun - I know I registered some rather awful domains along the way!

 

[Tom K.]

Since I'm not much into .CA I haven't been following this thread. But I'm impressed how long it's gotten.

So I will throw in the few .CA's I have:

LatinAmerica.ca
Invoicing.ca
VisitQuebec.ca
VisitBritishColumbia.ca
VisitSaskatchewan.ca
Muy.ca (muy = very in Spanish)
TCK.ca

I used to have some really good Spanish .CA's but let them go. Kicking myself over that.

 

[hugegrowth]

Sometimes I have to shake my head in amazement at what people will or will not pay for a .ca. For $800 I can buy 70 fresh reg .ca's with higher ovt and more potential than that.

Some of that is true, but you have to wonder if what looks expensive now will look cheap in 2-5 years.

An article at the DNjournal talked about someone who bought beer.com for 80k and sold it within a year for 7 million. That's a very extreme example, but there are other cases of domains (any ext.) being bought and sold a few times over, and the price paid keeps increasing with time. Going back to 2000 or 2001 there were still good traffic domain names available to hand reg or buy for cheap.

I also agree that there are still good .ca names available to reg, instead of paying higher prices at these TBR auctions for 1 or 2 names. I just registered the equivalent of 'virtual games', 'virtual s*x', and 'virtual world' in french .ca. Was able to get in english 'virtual friends' and 'virtual space'. Ofcourse you can tell I think virtual sites have a future.

I think people paying these high prices at TBR must have the extra money lying around from their existing domain income.

Domains really haven't been touted in the media as a serious investment choice yet, other than a few articles, and there are still relatively few people involved in the .ca game in Canada. When you start hearing people talk about domain investing at parties and at your work, you'll know it's fully arrived.

 

[PeterMan]

hugegrowth,

How do your french .ca names make out for ppc? I am considering some right now...

 

[hugegrowth]

How do your french .ca names make out for ppc?

It's all over the map really. Generally english ppc pays better than french, probably because there are less french sites and less french people in Canada. And not many american commerce sites have french versions, so they are completely missing the Quebec market. It doesn't seem like many parking companies have french ads either, so there isn't much point in showing english ads to french surfers. But adsense works nicely for french ads.

Also, from my experience it seems like french people are more likely to do .ca type-in than english people, why that is I don't know.

But, you can still get good french keywords in .ca, whereas in english they are long gone. French speakers are almost 25% of the population of Canada - so that is reason enough to have at least some good french names. I think french .ca are a good bet because in the future it will be easier to translate sites - hence more competition from advertisers for the french market, and ppc rates will only be going up anyway.

My rule of thumb is if the english version of the word is gone in all (or most) extensions, and the french word is the exact translation and relevant to people in Quebec, then it's worth regging. Maybe some other posters have more to add on this...

 

[whitebark]

Problem with buying French language .ca's for us non-french speakers is making sure they translate over properly!

For example boursedesvaleurs.ca - stock market?

A side bonus in ways to French language .ca's is not only do you get Quebec traffic and those that speak French outside of Quebec in Canada, but for me anyways - will see traffic from other French speaking regions in the world. That is especially so for very generic French .ca's. Not huge traffic of course, but visitors all the same.

 

[hugegrowth]

Problem with buying French language .ca's for us non-french speakers is making sure they translate over properly!

That's what makes it a great niche if you know french. It gives you access to the other 25% of the country that english domains don't. And english canadians and americans aren't competing with you for those .ca domains.

 

[DOTCA]

A few prices from Pool's TBR auction today in case anyone is curious:
cues.ca $420
gauge.ca $950
rollercoaster.ca $800
royalflush.ca $555
timer.ca $490

A definite ROYALFLUSH indeed....

 

[catchiedomains]

If a developed site, does .ca index as well in SE's as .com or does it matter?

 

[Jacksplat]

my .ca index just fine in google, yahoo and msn. never noticed a difference to .com

 

[DropWizard.com]

If a developed site, does .ca index as well in SE's as .com or does it matter?

As far as I know SE's are utterly indifferent to the extension.

 

[catchiedomains]

Thanks, I was just curious. I have turned my focus to developing .ca's, I reg or buy it, develop it, refine it and see what happens. Does anyone here do a quick review of a site to offer seo tips?

 

[whitebark]

Fairly tame pre-bidding today. Couple stand out - should be fun! Good Luck!

Just curious... let's say I want to buy a .ca from someone who has it already registered for the max 10 years. 30 days has elapsed - is cira going to tack on another year for 11 years short one month or just add one month to bring it back to 10?

 

[RazorNF]

I would guess there may be some differences in the eventual rankings for some sites on google.com vs google.ca, msn.com/.ca, etc...

 

[hugegrowth]

If a developed site, does .ca index as well in SE's as .com or does it matter?

when I search on google.ca and click the button for 'pages from Canada', my .ca sites show up higher in the rankings - and the hosting is in the US, so it must be the .ca that pumps it up. When you leave it to the default, searching the 'entire web', your .ca is competing against every extension out there.

If anything, it's probably better to have a .ca if someone is searching within canadian sites, and if they are searching the web you are generally on equal footing with everything out there.

 

[liberator]

How'd everyone do today? Looks like I picked up 2 domains, one a popular last name and the other a realty domain.