DomainReport.ca First of all, Happy Thanksgiving weekend to all the Canadians out there! ?It's hard to sit here in BC this holiday weekend, knowing that the TRAFFIC conference is underway in sunny Florida, but at least we've had a good string of sunny weather here in BC too. ?Like many others I'm looking forward to the domain auction results and o...

DomainReport.ca The September 26 .ca TBR saw over 200 domains grabbed, breaking the sub-200 trend of the last few weeks. ?The results of this TBR are at the bottom of this post. First, here are some recent .ca domain sales that were reported at DNJournal.com. PacificSpas.ca ?- ?$1,000 ?- ?sold at Sedo RolandBerger.ca ?- ?$4,500 ?- ?sold at Sedo...

DomainReport.ca I had a good look at this past week's .ca TBR domain name list, and found some interesting names on it (see below). ?I didn't include any LLL.ca, but there were some of those too. ?They often tend to have multiple bidders if they are good quality, so unless it's one I really want I don't bother pre-bidding on them. The .ca domain ...

DomainReport.ca I recently reported that DNS had sold Runway.ca for a price in the $10,000 to $20,000 range. Last week's DNJournal.com sales report (for the previous two weeks of sales) gave the exact selling price for runway.ca, which was $19,000. ?The sale was closed through Sedo. ?This put the Runway.ca sale in 25th place for overall domain sa...

DomainReport.ca There are domains that have and don't have obvious value. ?For everything else in between, domainers are forever looking for methods to valuate their domains. ?Domain valuation is not a perfect science, so the more tools and metrics you have, the better you're able to determine your domain's worth. External metrics are useful, bec...

DomainReport.ca It was a better week than usual in the .ca TBR drop, which took place last Wednesday. ?I think there were a handful of domains I would list in the premium category, both in english and french, that dropped. First, after being away most of last week, I finally had a chance to review the recent domain sales at DomainNameSales.com. ?...

DomainReport.ca I was working outdoors every day last week and noticed a change. ?For most of July and August, you could start early in the morning just wearing a t-shirt. ?Much of the US and Canada has experienced a warm summer with less precipitation than usual. ?Then, one morning during the middle of the week, we got out of the truck and there ...

DomainReport.ca I recently reported that Edible.ca and FreshFruit.ca had sold in the last week, but I didn't have the final sales prices. ?Those prices were revealed in the past week's DNJournal sales report, along with another .ca sale I didn't know about. Edible.ca sold for $10,500 at Sedo, good enough to be in the top 20 of all domains sold in...

DomainReport.ca This past week saw less .ca domains taken than usual. ?Lately around 200 domains have been grabbed in the weekly drop, but on August 8 only 150 names were caught. The first name taken was LadyGaga.ca. ?This could be made into a fan site, but you'd have to be careful with a celebrity name domain like this. ?In my opinion, unless yo...

DomainReport.ca I was scanning through the domains sold at DomainNameSales.com today, and noticed at the top of the list dated August 10, were the following two .ca sales freshfruit.ca ?- ?$5,000 to $10,000 range edible.ca ?- ?$10,000 to $20,000 range Both domains are currently registered at Godaddy. ?Freshfruit.ca shows a registration date of ...

DomainReport.ca About a year ago I started putting up an "Inquire about this domain name" link on many of my webpages, most of which I'd built as mini-sites with content. ?I list most of my domains on Sedo, Afternic, and on Godaddy Premium, but I believe many people will visit the domain they are interested in to see what's there. ?If you are will...

DomainReport.ca I don't know how recently this was posted on the CIRA site, but when I saw it today it was news to me. ?Not the part about IDN .ca domains being in the works, but a date has now been set for when we will start seeing them. IDN .ca domain names with french accented characters will be made available in about five months from now, in...

DomainReport.ca The .ca TBR drop results from a week ago are listed below. ?Thanks to Sibername for providing the information. But first, there was one .ca domain sale reported in last week's DNJournal report. Lanyards.ca - $1,050 - sold at Sedo If you've ever been to Disneyworld or Disneyland, you're probably familiar with wearing a lanyard ar...

DomainReport.ca -- I'll keep this short, since I'm typing on an iPad, but despite the troubles Overstock reported using their O.co domain name, I saw a commercial for them tonight that prominently displayed and mentioned O.co. The commercial was shown on the hgtv.ca channel during a home buying show. I thought we had seen the end of the O.co exp...

DomainReport.ca Have the summer doldrums set in with your domaining activity? Not here. ?If anything, the first 5 or 6 months of this year were dead quiet. ?In the last month, I've had three end user enquiries through email, two were for .ca domains and one for a .com. ?I don't know if any of these will result in a sale, but it's always a good si...

DomainReport.ca There were two .ca domain sales reported in the last week at DNJournal.com, and both made the top twenty list for country code domain sales. ?Billet.ca came in at the number 2 position, and MySushi.ca took the 15th spot. Billet.ca ?- ?$15,000 CAD ?- ?sold by eMall.ca?(if you want to see a great collection of .ca domain names, chec...

DomainReport.ca I have missed reporting on a few TBR's recently, but can you blame me? ?The Euro 2012 soccer tournament was on, my day job was getting really busy, weekends away for kids sports tournaments, and on and on! ?Late spring / early summer is a busy time when you have kids, with the drama of school ending and sports activities beginning....

DomainReport.ca Chalk this one up to strange things in domaining. I'm sure many domainers own some domains, perhaps for personal reasons, that they don't develop or park. ?Domains you just don't know what to do with, so you forward them to one of your main or related websites for what little benefit it gives you. ?One of those domains for me is 0...

DomainReport.ca It's been a busy (and wet) June where I live, and I've been meaning to post some recent .ca domain sales from the week ending June 3. ?These sales were originally reported by DNJournal.com. ?Since some time has passed when these sales were made, it may also be possible to see who the buyers were. These four domains were all sold b...

DomainReport.ca The May 30 TBR had a whopping 6,132 dropping .ca domains. ?Among this number were a few gems. ?A total of 240 domains were grabbed in this drop. But before we get to the drops, there was a notable .ca domain sale in the past week. ?The domain sold at Frank Schilling's DomainNameSales.com marketplace, which has had a lot of success...

DomainReport.ca It happens from time to time, and it happened this week. ?Sometimes you'll see a .ca domain name sell around the same time as the matching .com. ?This time it happened with Burrard.ca and Burrard.com. Burrard.ca ?- ?$15,500 ?- sold by DomainAdvisors/DomainNameSales Burrard.com ?- ?$8,000 - sold by DomainAdvisors/DomainNameSales ...

DomainReport.ca I was pretty busy last week and didn't have time to report the .ca TBR list of domains taken in the drop. But before I do that, there was one .ca domain sale reported last week at DNJournal.com. GiftCardExchange.ca ?- ?$6,700 ?- sold at Afternic/DLS I checked what is happening with this domain today, and it is still parked on a ...

DomainReport.ca I've posted the results of last week's .ca TBR below, but before we get to that there were?some .ca domain sales in the past two week's worth noting. ?Thanks to DNJournal for providing the sales numbers. Greenfield.ca - $2,000 - sold at Sedo Billetterie.ca - $1,000 - sold at Sedo ?(french word for 'ticket booth' or 'cash dispense...

DomainReport.ca First of all, Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there! A new Canadian company branded as Shop.ca is coming to the Canadian marketplace. Aside from having a great domain name, I think their idea is a good one. ?Whenever I shop online, I like to deal in Canadian dollars and like to see the shipping come from Canada. ?It is ...

DomainReport.ca It's a terrible thing when a blog feed doesn't update. Since April 18 my feedburner feed for this blog had not been updating. ?I do a few other blogs on Blogger (unrelated to domaining) and those feeds seemed to be working fine. ?I checked the settings in my Blogger account and everything seemed to be ok. ?Today I changed one of t...

DomainReport.ca It was quite a thin week in the TBR world for .ca domains, judging by yesterday's outcome. ?I've bolded some of the better names below, and some decent brandable names, but there was nothing that really stood out as very good or exceptional to me. However, an interesting thing happened when I was browsing the list of dropping doma...

DomainReport.ca There was a total of 5,875 .ca domains that dropped in this past week's TBR. ?Of those, 276 domains were grabbed. The list of 276 caught names is below, I've bolded some of the better ones. ?Thanks to Sibername.com for providing the list. There were also a couple of .ca sales I noticed in recent weeks. ?There was no DNJournal.com...

DomainReport.ca The April 18 .ca TBR took place yesterday, and below is the list of domains that were caught in this weekly event. In total, 5,888 .ca domains dropped this week and 212 were snapped up by different registrars. Some of the highlight names I saw were: esolutions.ca ?(popular tech term, nice name for a company) rotary.ca joie.ca ...

DomainReport.ca If you have a young daughter, chances are very good that you've heard of the new boy band called One Direction. If you haven't heard of them, think of five Justin Biebers, or the New Kids on the Block if you were around in the 80's. They are a talented group of young UK singers and seem to be growing more in popularity every day....

DomainReport.ca There were a few .ca domain name sales reported in recent weeks that I haven't had a chance to post, until today. The April 11 DNJournal.com domain sales report featured two .ca sales. These were: StudyOnline.ca - $15,000 (private sale) WFC.ca - $4,294 (sold by ExcellentDomains.ca) In addition, a third .ca sale was reported at...

DomainReport.ca The April 4th .ca TBR drop featured a total of 5,543 dropping .ca domains. Of those, 203 domains were grabbed. The list of names taken is below, provided by Sibername.com I've bolded the names I think are better quality. I didn't put in for any names this past week, but there were a few good ones. This past week also featured ...

DomainReport.ca Ahhhh, the domain appraisal scam game is alive and well. Just over ten years ago I got my first domain appraisal scam email. The person seemed very interested in my domain, suggested a high price range and willingness to use escrow.com, but first needed a domain appraisal. The person suggested two sites, GreatDomains.com and ano...

DomainReport.ca The March 28 .ca TBR took place yesterday, with a total of 5219 .ca domain names dropping. Of those that dropped, 216 domains were grabbed. ios.ca is an interesting one because IOS is Apple's mobile operating system, and they have a dominant (and growing) piece of the smartphone market. revelstokehomes.ca is a nice real estate d...

DomainReport.ca In a previous blog post I had reported two recent .ca domain sales I'd seen, but had only given sales price ranges because that was all that was available at the DNS website. In last week's DNJournal.com sales report, the actual prices were revealed. They were: CheapVacations.ca - $47,000 VacationPackages.ca - $15,000 CheapVac...

DomainReport.ca There were a few .ca domain name sales in the past week, all of which took place at DomainNameSales.com. You can see these sales listed among their sold domains on their homepage. DNS doesn't give an exact sales price, just a sold price range. The first two domains below sold at the minimum range (under $3,000 each). The next t...

DomainReport.ca The 2012 .CA Impact Awards entry period is coming to a close. If you plan to enter, the deadline is just under two weeks away on Friday, March 23. CIRA is looking for people who use their .CA websites to make a positive difference. The Impact can be social, cultural, political, technological or economic. There are four ...

DomainReport.ca There were a total of 4,629 .ca domains that dropped in the previous week's TBR. Of those, 222 domains were grabbed. It was a pretty typical week for a .ca drop, which is usually under 5,000 domains total and just over 200 domains taken. I don't think it was a stellar week of drops, but there were some nice domains made availabl...

DomainReport.ca The .ca market is still showing signs of life with a few recent reported sales, including one in the mid five figure range. Thanks to DNJournal.com for highlighting these sales. There is also a .ca domain name currently on auction at Sedo (see below). Below are three .ca domain sales that occurred in the last two weeks. Flu.ca ...

DomainReport.ca Below are the results of the last .ca TBR in February. The drop took place two days ago on Wednesday. There was a total of 4,401 dropped domains, of which 168 were taken in the TBR. I barely scanned this week's TBR list, and the first time I saw the results was today. The list of domains caught is below, I've bolded some of the...

DomainReport.ca Twitter is a great free promotion tool to help bring awareness to your blog or website. Many businesses and blogs, including those in the domaining world, are now promoting their sites through Twitter. One of the ways to promote your site through Twitter is to add your URL into your profile inside the Website box. Another way is...

DomainReport.ca You still need to have a Canadian presence to own a .ca domain name, but if you are invested in this space or looking to invest in .ca domains, CIRA has just released some interesting statistics on this cctld. There is now a section on the CIRA.ca website called The .CA Factbook. I spent a little time last night looking over the ...

DomainReport.ca Today's TBR featured a total of 4936 .ca domains dropping, of which an exact total of 250 were grabbed. That's less than half of the .ca domains that were grabbed in last week's excellent TBR, but there were a few good domains this week too. I think soul.ca was probably the best of the lot. Of note, the first and fifth domains...

DomainReport.ca Before you think this is a story of a stolen domain name, it's not. This post is about what recently happened to me when I mistakenly dropped a domain name. About two weeks ago I had a .ca domain name that was getting close to being deleted. The domain had actually expired on Jan 6, but when a .ca domain expires it goes into a s...

DomainReport.ca Owning the generic .Com is Like... If you are involved in the domain market, you sometimes find yourself having to explain to someone the benefit of owning the generic .com. Often the analogy to real estate is made. Having the generic or best .com for any given business is like owning the penthouse in Manhattan or waterfront rea...

DomainReport.ca There were a few .ca domain name sales worth reporting in the last week.? Most of these came from the Wednesday TBR and follow-up auctions yesterday.? There was also one .ca that sold at the DomainNameSales.com marketplace. The TBR auction prices are not confirmed sales because I don't know if the buyers will end up paying or not,...