Not a big drop, bid for 3 domains at WHC and got them right away for minimum bid (not complaining!!). All the other names on my list but one fell through.. probably not worth a handreg unless time to develop. I see a few decent generic names in auction at WHC but most names lately are mostly...
I was still receiving "Your bid has been received" emails at 15h11 and they came in mixed up (200$ bid came in before $140 bid for example). Gmail/workspace on my side.
Yes, I can't recall when I bought it but I don't think it was a hand reg, I would have double checked the spelling. I probably bought it off the hotlist myself, influenced by the fact that it was on the list and skipping the homework.
Always weird to see one of my names in the hotlist. I dropped lucile.ca lucile.ca after realizing that it's pretty much a rare variant on Lucille. Might be a mistake but didn't want to hang to it for decades.
Google can't profit from ccTLDs but can profit from nTLDs they are selling. Sinking ccTLDs can only benefit them. Then again, easy to understand why Google doesn't need to use ccTLDs anymore but it's not like they'll drop google.ca either.