.ca Dot CA Discussion, Sales, and Showcase

[whitebark]

Domains For Next MyID .ca Auction

These are the upcoming domains and reserve range for the next/current myid.ca auction:

666.ca ($1751 - $2500)
Acrobats.ca ($251 - $500)
affordabletrips.ca ($251 - $500)
AirportRentals.ca ($1001 - $1750)
albertabyowner.ca ($251 - $500)
BridalOnline.ca ($1001 - $1750)
Broke.ca ($5001 - $7500)
CanadianDrugStores.ca ($501 - $750)
CanadianTennis.ca ($1001 - $1750)
CarStore.ca ($1001 - $1750)
CheaperFlights.ca ($101 - $250)
CraftSales.ca ($501 - $750)
DiscountTours.ca ($1001 - $1750)
DivorceTips.ca ($501 - $750)
DownloadFreeRingtone(s).ca ($2 - $100)
DUILawyers.ca ($1001 - $1750)
EasyIncome.ca ($751 - $1000)
EcoVoyage.ca ($251 - $500)
EngineeringCareer.ca ($751 - $1000)
Enlargement(s).ca ($751 - $1000)
ExoticHolidays.ca ($1001 - $1750)
FashionOnline.ca ($2501 - $3750)
Fertiliser.ca ($1001 - $1750)
FitnessJob.ca ($751 - $1000)
FlightSearch.ca ($1001 - $1750)
Freebies.ca ($7501 - $10000)
FreelancingJobs.ca ($2501 - $3750)
FurnitureLiquidation.ca ($751 - $1000)
GayBlog.ca ($251 - $500)
GayCanada.ca ($3751 - $5000)
HealthGuide.ca ($1001 - $1750)
HearingAids.ca ($7501 - $10000)
Hired.ca ($7501 - $10000)
HockeyGame.ca ($1001 - $1750)
homegardens.ca ($251 - $500)
HowToDance.ca ($501 - $750)
iBlogs.ca ($751 - $1000)
InternetHelp.ca ($251 - $500)
InternetPhones.ca ($1751 - $2500)
JFK.ca ($1001 - $1750)
JointVenture.ca ($2501 - $3750)
KitchenWare.ca ($1001 - $1750)
Lake-Ontario.ca ($1001 - $1750)
LogosOnline.ca ($501 - $750)
Mask.ca ($3751 - $5000)
MontrealLaser.ca ($251 - $500)
MontrealTravel.ca ($1001 - $1750)
MusicJob.ca ($751 - $1000)
NutritionJob.ca ($751 - $1000)
OakvilleFlowers.ca ($501 - $750)
OnlineCoupons.ca ($1001 - $1750)
OnlineDates.ca ($2501 - $3750)
OnlineGaming.ca ($2501 - $3750)
OnlineStock.ca ($751 - $1000)
OnlineStocks.ca ($751 - $1000)
OrganicStore.ca ($1751 - $2500)
PharmaceuticalCareer.ca ($751 - $1000)
PizzaRestaurant(s).ca ($101 - $250)
PrivatePilots.ca ($501 - $750)
ProFootball.ca ($251 - $500)
QuebecHoneymoons.ca ($1001 - $1750)
RollerBlading.ca ($5001 - $7500)
SaskatoonRealtors.ca ($101 - $250)
SelfImprovement.ca ($1751 - $2500)
Sensual.ca ($10001 - $15000)
Shareware.ca ($15001 - $25000)
SingleChristian.ca ($251 - $500)
SmallJob.ca ($1001 - $1750)
SNN.ca ($251 - $500)
Snores.ca ($1751 - $2500)
SportsStore.ca ($501 - $750)
TechJobs.ca ($2501 - $3750)
TeddyBear.ca ($1001 - $1750)
Theme.ca ($2501 - $3750)
TNN.ca ($251 - $500)
TorontoComputer.ca ($251 - $500)
TorontoComputers.ca ($251 - $500)
TorontoDentists.ca ($2501 - $3750)
TravelAuction.ca ($2501 - $3750)
UniqueGifts.ca ($2501 - $3750)
UsedHouses.ca ($251 - $500)
UsedLaptops.ca ($1751 - $2500)
Valuable.ca ($501 - $750)
VancouverHomeForSale.ca ($101 - $250)
War.ca ($1751 - $2500)
Women.ca ($50000)


I can see a number of these getting picked up - there a few others I'm surprised they accepted the high reserve and can't see selling because of it. What do you think?

 

[DomainRecap]

It shouldnt have any kind of history. There is no canadawest.bc.ca so what 3rd level did it conflict with?

I displayed it in the other post - I don't want to create an actual link and have people clicking on it.

BTW, I think this is occurring because the virus/ransomware site is in the process of being booted off, whereby canadawest.ca would then be available, but you might have struck too soon.

What's weird about these sites (especially something like RHC.ca) is that the person or company holding the 3rd-level can request the .CA and use that instead. Just from an asset POV, a 3-letter .CA would be worth more, as well as being shorter and easier to use in ads, business cards, etc.

Plus, I think Google hammers them on SEO, as I've had a very hard time finding some using the search engines.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

OK yt.ca

YES dont go to that url, what a waste and hopefully several notifications to cira will rectify that. I just replied to the compliance email received CIRA Compliance <[email protected]> about the malware site.

As for voicing our concerns about the messed up drop list, and daily updates to it, plus all these other issues You mentioned emailing them, were members, were paying their salary and expenses.
Time to look into what out membership is about. @poing was going to run for a seat, and another gentleman was on here last 6 months talking about running in last election, cant remember his name

Typing at same time, sorry. I see what you saying, looks like same program on rhc.ca 3rd level
Is there a way to find out how many domains are .yt.ca and bc.ca on.ca
Summerhill.bc.ca is local winery. Good food, crappy domain name, I guess they too can apply to drop the 3rd level

 

[DomainRecap]

OK yt.ca

I meant YT as in Yukon Territories, as in ON, BC, AB, MB, etc. It's a valid 3rd-level domain for .CA.

I think you know that are are just trying to also not put the full URL up for people to click.

As for the numbers, no idea - there used to be a lot at the beginning, as that was the standard way of issuing .CA prior to 2000, but most of them claimed the .CA when the CIRA came into effect. No idea how many stragglers are left.

 

[cabotower]

did a gd check on a .ca,available,great.did a tm check, fine,ok.go back to gd and the name is gone,wtf? i think my initial gd search got somebody's attention.
maybe at CIRA.it's probably a top tier name that isn't available for everyday regging.i probably wouldn't have been allowed to keep it even if i had regd id the first time.

 

[HotKey]

Due to an error in the .CA registry, a domain you recently registered has been recalled as it was a restricted domain not available for registration.

Ahh.
Wonder if that explains the city/ ca hand reg someone posted about, I believe they were looking for an appraisal.
Noticed though, city was also registered on the same day on the third level (.on.ca) but at a different registrar.
All screwy.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Wrote number of .ca reggae yesterday afternoon when we were discussing canadawest.
Bottom of cira page it said 2,781,982 doughmains registered.
This morning
Domains registered: 2,781,742
so 242 domains were added to the list
From cira tbr page
The list is updated daily to include the most recent domain deletions.

https://cira.ca/ca-domains/tbr
this page wont load and is freezing my pc up, then when it loads is at bottom of page. Sure doesnt look like 1000's of names on that page, it wont even scroll properly
Showing 1 to 17,957 of 17,957 entries.

Good job by these people we elected to run the cira
I am going to register a couple .ca to help pay their salary

 

[DomainRecap]

Good job by these people we elected to run the cira

This is probably one of the most ill-timed, untested and poorly implemented "updates" I've ever seen.

It's like the people in charge of it had absolutely no training in the field and decided to perform a major update 1 day prior to the TBR, and with zero testing and no fallback. Insane, and if I had done anything remotely similar in my private sector jobs, I would have been on the street.

I remember one time before a software update and required data transfer, the head software engineer and DBA performed massive alpha/beta environment tests, certifications, and user testing, but when the weekend data transfer came they forget a weird "Address 4" field that was used for a custom field in less than 1% of clients... Uh oh. Time to load a backup, delay starting up by half a day, and get some negative PR.

The big boys had a morning meeting and decided to can them both, right on the spot. Harsh, but the impact was severe, but not as severe as scrapping an entire TBR run, making the website near-unusable, and having ongoing WHOIS/registration issues that still aren't fixed.

How the hell these IT guys/gals at CIRA still have a job is beyond me, as they are the "face of .CA" and that "face" now has a big pair of black eyes, a broken nose and some missing teeth.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Were all members of this organization.

https://member.cira.ca/Membership/Join/Domain_Check.aspx username is email

I retrieved my password and am logged into member area now.
On my account page they show me as owning 93 .ca
namesilo link manager says 118
Namesilo is correct. None of my Rebel registered .ca show up on my profile at cira member page

Email: [email protected] Toll free: 1-877-913-5335
Thats a different numb3r than what shows on cira homepage.
Be sure to quote your membership number when you voice your concerns about the issues they are creating, or other questions, when emailing the above address

@poing and @munkybrain both talked in past about running for seats in annual elections with cira.
munkybrain closed his account because he found his other account info I think, but i see his acct was active on monday

 

[wwwweb]

What a cluster F I saw Town Ville City and so many two letter .ca which according to the docket reserved for whatever geo reasons available to register. I hope the people that got them get to keep them, but doubtful so didn’t waste my time. Looks like when they did the update they exposed their reserves. Surprised a lot of that stuff sat that for days before people started figuring it out. I did register one very generic 4 letter single word .ca, as I was curious on traffic, and it was pathetic averaging 4 uniques per day.

 

[wwwweb]

Anyone attempting to buy these generic blocks watch the reg dates, as you could have a very experience take back. I see some pages have for sale signs already.

 

[DomainRecap]

What a cluster F

Exactly, and I can't imagine an "update" going any worse than this.

 

[wwwweb]

Exactly, and I can't imagine an "update" going any worse than this.

Well it’s one thing they messed the drop, now they released these reserved domains, and are going to tick so many people off when they take them back.

The guy who registered on.ca ain’t going to be to happy.

 

[DomainRecap]

The guy who registered on.ca ain’t going to be to happy.

LOL, that's hilarious but I highly doubt he or she thought they'd be able to keep it.

On that note, are there other LL domains that were let loose in error? And what are some premium restricted domains that already have for sale signs?

This is like watching a train wreck that never ends.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

I hope he doesnt do a quick flip.

 

[MapleDots]

I mentioned the risk of selling or flipping a reserved domain in another topic. It is best to assume they will get taken back and even if one slips through the cracks it could get taken back a year later. So if one sells a prime reserved .ca and gets a nice payout imagine when the new owner get a notice he will lose it. Now imagine if the amount was significant and the seller has already spent it with no means to pay back?

In experienced domainer hands this is all a non issue because any loss can be easily absorbed but for anyone running paycheck to paycheck this could be very problematic.

 

[nafti]

I noticed that someone also registered abc.ca recently! Good luck in keeping that one too!

 

[dtagr]

"Hi Chris,

Thank you for your comments and feed back, we will pass on your comments to our product management team."

There is the worthless response.

As far as running a candidate for the board that is small minded thinking. We should run an entire slate of domainer candidates to completely take over the board and steer it on a course of promoting the extension, adding value to their members (us) portfolios, ...and eliminating Canadian presence restrictions. Ima get my flameproof suit on now.

 

[DomainRecap]

I noticed that someone also registered abc.ca recently! Good luck in keeping that one too!

None of them will be kept, because by definition, they shouldn't be able to resolve and they will never be allowed to be transferred.

That's why I was looking for a list of reserved .CAs that had "For Sale" signs on them, to see how bad the issue really is - if someone has ABC.ON.CA, then ABC.CA should not be able to resolve to an actual nameserver.

If it does, then the CIRA has an even bigger problem on their hands.

 

[dtagr]

As an aside I'd like to know how many .ca's Namepros members own. I think it may be beneficial to cite the number of .ca domain names that we own collectively in order for CIRA to begin taking our interests into account.

I currently have around 320 .ca's registered. It's around 80% of my total portfolio.

If you are concerned about posting your numbers for any reason, please PM me and I will include the numbers in the unofficial count.

 

[wwwweb]

I believe .ca is aware of the error, and most likely Monday, but the these are very desirable names, some have for sale pages, I mean if someone unknown to this could buy city.ca for $5K, they would jump. Technically they can push it to them, and it would be a legit sale, a few days later most likely it would be taken back, and then the figure pointing would begin.

Some registrants could be totally clueless, they could think it was pure luck, but they would tend to hold out for higher amounts. Basically the majority of the names that have been blocked for years had their shields down, and whoever got the reg fee in, got them. Some were sitting for days. I remember Bob talking about how he had town.ca taken back a few years ago that day, and how upset he was, and as he posted this town.ca was actually sitting unregistered all day. I saw it on the restricted municipal names block so didn't even want the high/low of having it taken back, but then I started checking the others, and most were open, very few were taken. It took about 2 days for the bigger .ca fans to figure it out and, go to town on the names. I believe the blocks were probably taken down around the 4/5th, and from the 6th on they started to get registered.

I don't blame any of the registrants, if the name says able to be registered for $X, it is a transaction technically. The registry has their 30 day clawback rules in their TOS, so I think they are taking their sweet time, but should have figured it out Day 1, and shut it down, as it's not a good customer experience to have your names taken back.

 

[DomainRecap]

I don't blame any of the registrants, if the name says able to be registered for $X, it is a transaction technically.

Like you said, it's not technically a transaction until 30 days and you can be sure the CIRA is slowly clawing them back as we speak.

When the news started filtering out, I never bothered because I knew the eventual outcome - me losing the domains and getting back a crapload of "registrar credit". Not worth it.

But who knows, the CIRA might send out registrar credits for the trouble, like Amazon does.

 

[wwwweb]

Like you said, it's not technically a transaction until 30 days and you can be sure the CIRA is slowly clawing them back as we speak.

When the news started filtering out, I never bothered because I knew the eventual outcome - me losing the domains and getting back a crapload of "registrar credit". Not worth it.

But who knows, the CIRA might send out registrar credits for the trouble, like Amazon does.

I know what your saying, but I would hope random people still type in generic keywords to register on a daily basis, and seeing it available wouldn't be questioned as it would be by someone who is a domainer who would know something is wrong.

Most likely names will be disabled within accounts, and DNS terminated, then probably take some time to issue refunds.

Technically someone can list city.ca, with a $5K bin, on all the major exchanges, someone comes along puts it on their credit card, push, and it's done. A few days later the registry takes it back, now how do you go back blame the sales platform, blame the seller, blame the registry, blame the buyer. Let's hope this doesn't happen, but the longer they don't step in the higher the chances it could happen.

 

[Kate]

What would be 'funny' is that the happy registrants start flipping those names in a hurry. Enjoy the mess.

 

[DomainRecap]

A few days later the registry takes it back, now how do you go back blame the sales platform, blame the seller, blame the registry, blame the buyer.

Oh it's definitely a case of "blame the buyer" and taking part in this "quick sale" tactic (bypassing the 60-day CIRA lock) almost guarantees a pounding by the lawyers of the company it was sold to or by some deep-pocketed domainers. The last guy who sold the dodgy domain always pays.

And sorry, but I don't believe that any totally-innocent buyer is going to do the "sell cheap - quick push - then run!" tactic. They'll hold out for a realistic price because they firmly believe they're the owner. Quick sale pushes are for scammers only.

 

[DomainRecap]

Holy crap, TOWN.CA forwards to MapleDots.

Hope he registered it and didn't buy it from someone.