Domain Magnate

Some LLL.ca were auctioned in myid, pool and sibername in July 2008, here are some of the results as posted on dnforum:

tus.ca - $297
xcc.ca - $121
smb.ca - $655
otk.ca - $259
tbb.ca - $615
tlx.ca - $101
bjp.ca - $250
ewq.ca - $101
ghj.ca - $101
glq.qc.ca - $2250
hjk.ca - $101
lkj.ca - $100
zgs.ca $240
jph.ca $300
vvm.ca $152

Prices have been raising quickly during the last months. The better ones seem to get good prices in $200-300 and all premium letters fetch $600+. The recent sale of gmx.ca for over $30K must have helped too.

I still have a few LLL.ca’s at bargain prices here - these are going quick, so hurry up!

New DnJournal Report is Up:

Moniker.com closed the $850,000 sale of SkiResorts.com this week, a deal that ranks as the fourth highest sale reported so far in 2008. Moniker handled the sale for Rick Latona who sold two other domains that landed on our Top 20 chart through his own site, RickLatona.com. One of those, StCatharines.com, completed the top ten after going for $19,000. Sedo.com had a big week sweeping 11 of the 20 chart entries. Their roster was led by #2 Madrid.net at €28,000 ($43,920) while #4 Celibataire.com (”single” in French) and #5 Hoteles.info (”hotels” in Spanish) gave them three of the top five spots. Madrid.net banked €28,000 ($43,920) while Hoteles.info booked €19,500 ($30,607). Pool.com rounded out the first five with #3 Banks.ca (Canadian country code) depositing $41,000 in the year’s 8th biggest ccTLD sale.

By Ron Jackson

The AfternicDLS also had a solid outing with four names on the elite list including #6 ContemporaryRugs.com ($30,000) and #9 HowToInvest.com ($23,000). This was a strong week for non .com domains as they took nine places on the Big Board. Three of those were .orgs, two were .nets, two were .infos and two were ccTLDS. That trio of .orgs was led by #7 Compraventa.org (”purchase” in Spanish), sold at Sedo for €18,000 ($28,253)

Update: Domain was sold.

X2.ca For $1495 - This is not a Joke!

Post sold to claim the domain
Payment expected within 24 hours - Paypal or escrow, buy pays the fees.

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A quick update on the recent .ca pool auction results:

icq.ca sold for $3400
north.ca sold for $2701

MyID is also going to do a premium .ca auction.

They are mostly after 2-3 char domains and generics. Also cities and french domains.

Myid.ca doesn’t seem to be too popular so I’m guessing this auction won’t have a wide enough reach.

In other news pizza.com auction on sedo is up to $2,505,000. Many seem to be trying to capitalize on the big pizza chunk by shillbidding their domains to just under the reserve. We’ll soon find out if that worked for them..

ICQ.ca in now at auction in Pool.com with current high offer $2302 and over 3 days to go.

Now obviously this LLL.ca domain is only that valuable due to the popular IM program with the same name. So it’s very likely that icq.ca has some very good type in traffic that can let the owner make the money back in just a few months.

But the problem is ICQ is a trademark, which now belongs to AOL. Even if the domain icq.ca will be used for something unrelated to the icq brand AOL can claim it and most likely receive the domain. read more »

New record for .ca sales: $41000 for banks.ca at Pool.com today.

Previous high .ca sales:

savings.ca $36,050 2006-03-28 Pool
cruise.ca $33,363 2006-05-23 Pvt Sale

Some argue whether banks.ca is really worth much because there are only 6 banks in Canada, although I think it’s an excellent finance related domain and its value will only rise as the .ca registrations approach 1 million.

Banks.com is a developed site so it’s possible that they had interest in banks.ca as well.

Other reports suggest that the winning bidder was ready to pay as much as $112K!

Recent LLLL.com sales compilation here from last 2 days, to keep you up to date with the current prices.

eBay mostly has low priced LLLL’s and the prices seem good for buyers. At other venues prices are pretty much the same. You can still find some bargains mostly on forums here and there, but these get sold very fast.

Quad premiums seem be perceived as the most safe investment and if you can find one for under $400 grab it quick! Minimum price for quad premium LLLL.com now getting close to $500 and is believed to achieve $1000 by the end of the year.

Also notable that triple premium LLLL.com’s - that have 3 premium letters and one not premium are selling for prices very similar to the crappy4L’s. They are pretty cheap and names with decent letters can have good end user potential and are very likely to grow the highest in price.

I think triple premiums and quad premiums are among the best investments now.

Pronounceable LLLL.com’s are also very desired, also imho they are less liquid and usually sell for higher prices.

Snapnames
rfsn.com $433
nfpe.com $431
kdld.com $151
nrmx.com $108
pbeb.com $437
bldv.com $150 read more »

Good news for .ca enthusiasts: BU.ca Closes at $13.5K at Pool!

I remember when snapnames first started auctioning ca domains, about 7 months ago there were a coupe LL.ca in the list, they reached about $2k each and at that time I had a feeling it’s cheap. Now I know it was cheap!

This even beats the recent DNF sale of double letter LL.ca - VV.ca, which sold at $10k quickly. read more »