discuss Canadian.com for $269k; What would you do?

[abstractdomainer]

When someone buys such a domain name like Canadian.com or Israeli.com or something of this sort, instead of Canada.com, Israel.com, France.com etc. what would someone build on such a name? With the latter, you could build anything around Tourism, cities, countries, currency exchange etc. But what with the former?

I can imagine something like a country-specific social media site. What else would someone build on such a domain name not as the government but as a private company?
I always fail to appreciate what, as a business, could be appropriate for such names?

 

[john888]

A site that teaches how to speak Canadian Eh? Like analyse and not analyze, centre and not center. I hate these American spell checkers. I'm sorry.

 

[Tom_Collins]

I'm Canadian and this is a crappy name for a website. In Canada, most businesses use .ca extension.

This is pretty useless.

 

[D Haynes]

I have Madagascan (dot) com

Always envisioned it being used to sell produce from that country.

 

[CraigD]

Scotch?

 

[NickB]

Scotch?

Egg?

There Scottish

 

[lock]

I have Madagascan (dot) com

Always envisioned it being used to sell produce from that country.

East Africa?

 

[BradWilson]

As a rejected Canadian I think of myself as a Canardian

FYI: Canard means 1. an unfounded rumor or story or 2. a small winglike projection attached to an aircraft forward of the main wing to provide extra stability or control, sometimes replacing the tail.

So maybe the domain could be developed to showoff all the wonderful things Canardians eh I mean Canadians are known for like...

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Thanks for starting this thread @abstractdomainer, and all of the interesting ideas.

Thanks in particular for the search volume data, @redemo - in some cases surprising.

A number of companies use Canadian in their name - according to OpenCorporates about 11,000 active businesses and organizations (and about double that if one includes inactive). Many of these might potentially be interested in the distinction of being the one to be simply Canadian.

I agree with ideas that others have said that it would be a great name for Canadian travel or other experiences, immigration to Canada, a site that sells Canadian works of art, a Canadian sharing site of some kind, Canadian service directory, Canadian trade portal, place to buy uniquely Canadian gifts, Canadian real estate, a reference site, etc. I am fond of word Canadian, and have it in a few TLDs.

Can someone confirm though, did the name sell or is that simply the asking price? The only sale yet on NameBio is from when it sold in 2010. If it did sell, congrats to the buyer and the seller.

Bob

PS Canadians would tend to first seek the .ca on a name like this. I just checked and the name in .ca extension is used for a regional services directory.

 

[poweredbyme]

I was thinking of an ex pat website/forum for Canadians abroad.

Forums have more growing capability with fresh content and organic traffic flow. However running forum will require more technical expertise + more server costs + moderation costs, you may have to pay salary to moderators. Monetizing forums is very difficult. Because first time visitors to forums are less than repeat visitors. Repeat visitors to shopping websites convert but they don't convert on forums.
* Conversion: Buying something, clicking on an ad, leaving email address, making a phone call, signing up to the website, any action that the website owner wants from visitors.

I have run many types of websites/CMS's since 15-20 years. In my opinion the best use would be travel niche preferably with direct checkout on the website instead of indirect sales through affiliate links or PPC/CPM ads. If aff links will be chosen for monetization, comparison type travel site would be the most effective one.

Travel niche converts well. People like to purchase plane tickets, travel packages online more than offline. However competition on SERP ranking for travel niche is very very high.

 

[poweredbyme]

I agree with ideas that others have said that it would be a great name for Canadian travel or other experiences, immigration to Canada, a site that sells Canadian works of art, a Canadian sharing site of some kind, Canadian service directory, Canadian trade portal, place to buy uniquely Canadian gifts, Canadian real estate, a reference site, etc. I am fond of word Canadian, and have it in a few TLDs.

Any niche can be added to a single domain as subdomains such as
directory dot country dot com
arts dot country dot com
visa dot country dot com
forum dot country dot com
realestate dot country dot com
jobs dot country dot com
education dot country dot com
games dot country dot com
dating dot country dot com
finance dot country dot com / *credit card / fx affiliate site
auction dot country dot com / *similar to ebay or craiglist


anything dot country dot com would work if one prefers that way. It's possible to run many niches on a single domain.

 

[redemo]

I was thinking of an ex pat website/forum for Canadians abroad.

 

[omelet]

Thanks for starting this thread @abstractdomainer, and all of the interesting ideas.

Thanks in particular for the search volume data, @redemo - in some cases surprising.

A number of companies use Canadian in their name - according to OpenCorporates about 11,000 active businesses and organizations (and about double that if one includes inactive). Many of these might potentially be interested in the distinction of being the one to be simply Canadian.

I agree with ideas that others have said that it would be a great name for Canadian travel or other experiences, immigration to Canada, a site that sells Canadian works of art, a Canadian sharing site of some kind, Canadian service directory, Canadian trade portal, place to buy uniquely Canadian gifts, Canadian real estate, a reference site, etc. I am fond of word Canadian, and have it in a few TLDs.

Can someone confirm though, did the name sell or is that simply the asking price? The only sale yet on NameBio is from when it sold in 2010. If it did sell, congrats to the buyer and the seller.

Bob

PS Canadians would tend to first seek the .ca on a name like this. I just checked and the name in .ca extension is used for a regional services directory.

Hello Bob,

I had been the exclusive broker of this name since the beginning of the 2020. We did in depth researches and collected all possible leads across different industries included but not limited to fortune 500, media, consulting, immigration, education, etc.

The pandemic do brought a lot of difficulties to sell the name- we used to closed a deal in 2020 March at a $250,000 USD but deal cancelled due to COVID. The cancelled offer was from a private real estate firm who also run Casino.

Big firms such as Opentext, CGI Consulting, TorStar and various immigration firms all showed interest but our negotiation didn't go well and our best offer was around $100,000 USD.

The afternic guy first reached out to me in 2020 summer with inquiry of pricing, but they didn't submit any offer. The final sales was after one year, the same afternic guy brought offer to the owner directly. I discussed with the owner and permitted the final sales with afternic guy.

Canadian companies are way more conservative and it's impossible for them to buy such a name at this range. .ca is more welcomed for sure. But luckily, the domain got sold. Congratulations to my owner friend.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Can someone confirm though, did the name sell or is that simply the asking price? The only sale yet on NameBio is from when it sold in 2010. If it did sell, congrats to the buyer and the seller.

I saw after I posted this and edit window closed that the sale is listed in the Report Completed... thread here at NamePros. Congrats on great sale.
Bob