Recent content by Bob Hawkes

I agree. That is the point Drew Rosener has been hammering on Domain Sherpa and X as well (well between having an amazing trip to southeast Asia). We have not yet seen any pullback in .ai, but it has to come, since as you say, it is redundant when every company uses ai tools to think you need...

Thanks for posting article, https://dn.ca/data/avatars/s/0/119.jpg?1656297913@silentg ! I am planning/expecting a follow up article once I have some answers to questions, maybe Thursday or Friday this week. It continues to evolve somewhat, probably nature of testing whatever their goals are...

I think there are bound to be massive drops in .ai at some point, simply because so many of the names I see listed are so weak. But I think the extension has achieved enough real world use that it is now in the list of TLDs that startup founders consider. I recently looked at the names and...

I think the primary advantage that GD/Afternic/Dan et al. have is the FT premium registrar network. Therefore, I hope we will always have Sedo MLS just so there is not a monopoly in that. It is really unfortunate that Dofo stopped (or well became something else). Something like that that...

You do realize she has repeatedly said she has only a single registry premium .xyz name? I don't follow how saying she does not invest in premiums helps the registry sell premium names to investors. The math of premium renewals for .xyz does not work for investors, I think. That is why many...

I have used Sav for a number of years, but never for .ca domain names. Yes, you can list on their marketplace without using their landers. I do it all the time. Yes the 4% commission applies whether one uses their landers or not. I have bought and sold multiple domain names there, but never...

So now that you can list any domain in the Dynadot marketplace, and they take CDN (although can't set the price directly in that I think), are any people planning to try listing .ca there? 10% commission

Thanks for the replies. With the specific case, it turns out I was able to get the buyer to agree to equivalent USD and have sold it through my SH WL marketplace, but I will set up a Wise account for future flexibility in options. So with a Wise the buyer can pay in Canadian dollars whether...

If a client wishes to pay in Canadian dollars, but you want the transaction to take place on a marketplace, what options are there? This seems a straightforward question, but it seems most do not? Thanks for any help. On a different but related question, do any of the Canadian registrars have...

I wish that the .ca, .com and .xyz increases were not all on the same date, but it has been a good time to reflect on what is worth renewing in advance across the portfolio. -Bob

It seems surprising how much change there seems if no algorithm change, but James has indicated that lots and lots of new sales data added. From what testing I did, it seems that .com and .org that were worth much are now valued somewhat higher, but not universally. .Com and .org that were...

By the way, if we scaled the 3.3 million .ca by the figures in this report showing the dominance of .com among Canadians, it would need Canadians to have registered over 10.9 million .com names. That is a lot in a country that represents 0.48% of the world population. Yes, some very active...

I think the source of the error is likely an interplay of domain privacy and the fact that one of the largest registrar's on the globe, Tucows, is Canadian based. I saw in Dofo blog a couple of years ago some stats that seemed to show Canadians were dominating a bunch of extensions that I knew...

Yes that phishing scam is going around a lot of late. It goes to addresses without any PayPal association. They are just blanket emailing all over the place. Hopefully no one is falling for it, and eventually the bad actors will be caught. -Bob

I think the idea of a meetup, or a series of meetups, is great, but I think one should not in any way promote it as a mini NamesCon. That is a well developed event, and for a host of reasons please don't promote it as a little NamesCon for Canada. I would prefer a totally fresh Canadian...