Recent content by bmetal

Good question. I doubt it. 3/4 of the domains we registered today went to a handful of "old" TBR clients who are well known here on dn.ca. I scanned back to last April, and WHC's total volume then was "still" approximately four times ours. So getting an answer from them would be four times more...

new post-reg auctions at baremetal.ca for: ctvolympics.ca, senselab.ca, milkingredients.ca, bootstrap.ca a reminder that last week's post reg auctions close soon: geometricenergy.ca 1250 (edit: auction will be extended) fasting.ca 750 metrik.ca 425 myquit.ca 350 ratemyemployer.ca 250 and...

I feel compelled to point out that there are several business models in the "TBR game". Comparing raw number of domains registered has effectively NO relevance to the registration of the high value and high profile domains like vs.ca, hotsprings.ca and fraud.ca. I can't speak for WHC's...

New post-reg auctions at baremetal.ca for: fasting.ca, metrik.ca, ratemyemployer.ca, myquit.ca, geometricenergy.ca (open to anyone, closing next wednesday unless extended.) reminder that last weeks auctions for: fraud.ca 8000.00, concordiabootcamps.ca 350, traverse.ca 250 close soon (fraud will...

new post-reg auctions at baremetal for: fraud.ca, traverse.ca, concordiabootcamps.ca (open to anyone, closing next wednesday unless extended.) reminder that we have auctions closing shortly for: seatosky.ca 3000.00 southgreynews.ca 1250.00 ccd.ca 1250.00 rainmaker.ca 350.00 virtuelle.ca 200.00...

new post-reg auctions at baremetal.ca for: seatosky.ca, southgreynews.ca, virtuelle.ca, ccd.ca, rainmaker.ca auctions extended until tomorrow: vs.ca lashes.ca etoile.ca results for domains we had bids on: palette.ca WHC Online Solutions Inc...

New post-reg auctions at baremetal.ca for: vs.ca, lashes.ca, tubmaninstitute.ca, artsboxoffice.ca, boulangerie.ca, etoile.ca, labelstore.ca and cemf.ca reminder that the northlands.ca auction closes in about 30 minutes. results for domains we had bids on: vs.ca...

Vince's trouble wasn't an overload. That much I know, but not much else. Almost certainly a programming error on my part. (This particular error "Not a SCALAR reference at /raid/home/virtuals/rt_reg/lib/BMD/tbr/app.pm line 2526" is fixed. Not saying it is the only one. It was related to the...

so, hotsprings.ca sold for $10k, and the high bid was way over that. Yes, the domain has some great back links, analytics is showing referrals from parks.canada.ca banfflakelouise.com banffjaspercollection.ca reddit.com radiumhotsprings.com in quantities varying from 130 +to 20+ over the last...

In the absence of silentng... It may be worth noting there were more domains registered between 4.800 and 5.00 seconds than there were before 4.800 (lots of "too early" and "already taken" responses). (registrar totals at the bottom) results for: 2026-03-18 (245 domains) 00:00.012...

(good to hear, I threw a lot of darts at that domain!) I can try to have that in place before next wednesday, but to be honest, the whole system is designed around the premise that you figure out what a domain is worth, bid that, and forget about it (edit: and pay only what the next highest...

new postreg auctions at baremetal.ca for: hotsprings.ca (domain rank 54!) , fullspectrum.ca, and torontorealty.ca (auctions open to anyone, close next wednesday.) reminder that last weeks 3q.ca ($250), ccacc.ca (domain rank 29 - $200), and trottier.ca ($200) are due to close in 1/2 an hour...

You're only shown the sale price (2nd highest bid). You'll never know what the high bid is until you're the high bidder. (Unless I reveal it for illustration purposes. That's to limit folks pushing the price up beyond what losing bidders would actually be willing to pay.) The 2nd highest bid...

because someone else bid $350 five hours before you bid $300 sale price is second highest price. That's the model. Very easy to describe, surprisingly confusing in practice. We picked it because it does all the proxy-bidding logic automatically. I'm sorry it caught you off guard. -Tom

It can vary. It's a manual process. But I had these two billed and transferred within 30 minutes of auction close. I would guess/assume you got burned by the "second highest bid" model. Last bid was you (?) bidding $300... since the sale price moved to $300 you might imagine that your bid was...