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whitebark · Jul 7, 2008

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?

rlm · Mar 9, 2019

dtagr said:
Recap is right about CIRA's role in this, but they are also responsible for oversight vis-a-vis the registrars and they are failing in that regard.

Agreed, I don't get the feeling that CIRA is doing their job in that regard. They should also require that if a registrar is going to allow auctions, they should demand complete transparency. Whois privacy doesn't really help matters...

rlm · Mar 9, 2019

dtagr said:
If it's true that I didn't backorder that name (not), then I shouldn't have been allowed into the auction.

Agreed.

dtagr said:
Two weeks ago they extended the auction at first by a day and then again by an hour. Changing the rules of the game in the middle of the game is categorically unfair to those who are participating.

Not sure I 100% agree there, sometimes shit happens (not necessarily MyID's fault) and it would be unfair to NOT extend the auction.

wwwweb · Mar 9, 2019

NameSellingcom said:
GoDaddy Auctions controls most of the expired .Com domains inventory now, while DropCatch.com catches most of the dropped .Com domain inventory.
But, parent company of DropCatch.com (HugeDomains.com/TurnCommerce) also actively bids on domains at GoDaddy Auctions.

Actively is an understatement they blanket it with bots, push prices up, and cost everyone a lot, as their little bot doesn't miss much, at one point it was triggered by bids in the last 5 minutes by placing auto $101 bids on certain names. It has come a long way for sure. Owning 5 million names is not enough, they are still buying domains like YourVancouver.com for $6xx on Godaddy etc... Can you imagine an automated bidder that frequented your place of business on a daily basis, and drove your sales prices up for all your customers day in, and day out with fail, you would love them.

dtagr · Mar 9, 2019

rlm said:
I agree a single TBR system would certainly simplify things (and remove the shady characters tied to registries from collecting premium domains essentially for free). But that's never going to happen. CIRA doesn't sell domains except at wholesale, so for everything other than TBR, that system works well.

But the whole concept of dropping domains and auctioning them off has always been questionable to me. I've wondered who first started that, and who said it was OK? I guess enterprising registrars realized they could do that, and the registry couldn't figure out a way to stop them legally, so it became the defacto model.

It must be the model by design because CIRA grants exclusive access to registrars first and prevents access to the public until the following day.

DomainRecap · Mar 9, 2019

rlm said:
But the whole concept of dropping domains and auctioning them off has always been questionable to me. I've wondered who first started that, and who said it was OK? I guess enterprising registrars realized they could do that, and the registry couldn't figure out a way to stop them legally, so it became the defacto model.

That's exactly what happened, and whereever there is money, there will be scammers looking to work any angle possible to get part of it. I don't know who started it, but I believe it began when Registrars started abusing the "grace period" (where the original registrant have lost the domain, but the Registrar still maintain ownership control) to "resell" these domains to others, either via BIN or auction, and there was little that ICANN could do about them using this loophole for financial gain.

I'm not sure who did it first, it might have been SnapNames or GoDaddy, but it all steamrolled fast after that. Now virtually everyone sells or resells their expired domain stock, and unaffiliated drop-catchers try to pick up the crumbs.

I can remember back in the day, when every domain that expired went back to be registered, and enterprising domainers were building programs for it, trying to micro-time the drops, running bots, or just mouse-mashing to try to get the best ones.

dtagr · Mar 9, 2019

rlm said:
Not sure I 100% agree there, sometimes sh*t happens (not necessarily MyID's fault) and it would be unfair to NOT extend the auction.

Here I am breaking my new rule already.

To date MYID hasn't responded to my support request for the identity of it's ISP. Before you think it's nobody's business - they were conducting maybe a dozen simultaneous auctions totalling several tens of thousands of dollars. Two, maybe three bidders per auction is a significant number of people to affect. Sh*t happens for sure, so it's harmless to provide verification.

With that, I've wasted another Saturday in front of my idiot box. Have a great weekend everyone!

rlm · Mar 11, 2019

Anyone ever wonder why there's a 60 day lock on new registrations? I get it for transfers - this way a domain can't be shuffled from registrar to registrar if its been stolen - but that isn't really an issue for new registrations. I wonder what the logic is on that...

MapleDots · Mar 11, 2019

rlm said:
Anyone ever wonder why there's a 60 day lock on new registrations? I get it for transfers - this way a domain can't be shuffled from registrar to registrar if its been stolen - but that isn't really an issue for new registrations. I wonder what the logic is on that...

Excuse the French but.....

It's for when CIRA screws up and lets us register domains they need to take back again, it gives them a sixty day window to screw us a second time.

I'm still annoyed that I get an email from cira congratulating me on my new domain and they take it back. I can understand the ones where I did not get this email but to acknowledge a registration right at the source (cira) and then take it back almost seems criminal.

They're just protecting their asses in case they screw up again.

rlm · Mar 11, 2019

MapleDots said:
Excuse the French but.....

It's for when CIRA screws up and lets us register domains they need to take back again, it gives them a sixty day window to screw us a second time.

I'm still annoyed that I get an email from cira congratulating me on my new domain and they take it back. I can understand the ones where I did not get this email but to acknowledge a registration right at the source (cira) and then take it back almost seems criminal.

They're just protecting their asses in case they screw up again.

Oh right - good point, can't believe I forgot those examples already - it was just over a month ago! Well - if CIRA didn't have their heads up their asses on that FURY cutover - it would never be an issue, but I guess this is their safety net.

DomainRecap · Mar 11, 2019

Damn, it looks like Alerts are not working for me, as there are a ton of new posts with zero notifications. Anyone else?

I was just going to post that the TBR is way, way down to only 6,335 domains, and this is after long streak of 8K+.

jaydub · Mar 11, 2019

Working for me DR

alcy · Mar 12, 2019

so I just went $20 wild with the .ca $4usd fresh promo at namespro
I guess it won't last for much longer after my post about it here
enjoy

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justweed
iloveweed
premiumcbd
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jaydub · Mar 12, 2019

They emailed today about the pricing...said it could end any time

alcy · Mar 12, 2019

jaydub said:
They emailed today about the pricing...said it could end any time

well I assume its limited quantity.. based on quantity.. which is why I said once it goes public here... it may not last long

enjoy

rlm · Mar 12, 2019

For your entertainment, check out whois on reiss.ca. At whois.cira.ca, the response is:

Something went wrong. Please try again later.

From the command line:

> whois -h whois.ca.fury.ca reiss.ca
Server Name: reiss.ca
IP Address:
Registrar: Rebel.ca Corp.
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.ca.fury.ca
Registrar URL: www.rebel.ca
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2019-03-12T02:50:22Z <<<

%
% Use of CIRA's WHOIS service is governed by the Terms of Use in its Legal
% Notice, available at http://www.cira.ca/legal-notice/?lang=en
%
% (c) 2019 Canadian Internet Registration Authority, (http://www.cira.ca/)

I wonder what happened there, looks like a corrupted whois record or something as its missing most of the data....

MapleDots · Mar 12, 2019

Sold maplecannabis(dot)ca for 9k

Cheque bounced..... fortunately I had only allowed access to nameservers until the cheque cleared.

Wasted days and wasted nights.... was that not a song somewhere?

DomainRecap · Mar 12, 2019

MapleDots said:
Sold maplecannabis(dot)ca for 9k

Cheque bounced..... fortunately I had only allowed access to nameservers until the cheque cleared

Everybody's looking to scam these days - nobody wants to work.

nafti · Mar 12, 2019

MapleDots said:
Sold maplecannabis(dot)ca for 9k

Cheque bounced..... fortunately I had only allowed access to nameservers until the cheque cleared.

Wasted days and wasted nights.... was that not a song somewhere?

That would have been a nice sale @MapleDots.

Apparently there’s also a song called “Don't Let Your Mouth Write a Check That Your Ass Can't Cash”.

cabotower · Mar 12, 2019

re:TBR. who is in line to walk off with 234.ca?

DomainRecap · Mar 12, 2019

I see 3 prime domains this week, then a lot of average stuff piled in the middle

nafti · Mar 12, 2019

I haven’t check but how many of the top 10 did myid grab this time?

DomainRecap · Mar 12, 2019

nafti said:
I haven’t check but how many of the top 10 did myid grab this time?

http://www.domainrecap.com/2019/picks/ca-to-be-released-tbr-results-leftovers-march-7/

Not as many as usual, but I think they got the Top 2.

dtagr · Mar 13, 2019

cabotower said:
re:TBR. who is in line to walk off with 234.ca?

Never understood numericals. I can see the value if its a Canadian area code, but I dont get the rest of them. Care to explain?

wwwweb · Mar 13, 2019

dtagr said:
Never understood numericals. I can see the value if its a Canadian area code, but I dont get the rest of them. Care to explain?

Lol Country Code for Nigeria, outside 123, or something like 555, I don't get it either.

cabotower · Mar 13, 2019

there seems to be three fascinations with numbers.8,247 and 365.other than that i don't get this numerical thing either.

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