I was still receiving "Your bid has been received" emails at 15h11 and they came in mixed up (200$ bid came in before $140 bid for example). Gmail/workspace on my side.
Yes, I can't recall when I bought it but I don't think it was a hand reg, I would have double checked the spelling. I probably bought it off the hotlist myself, influenced by the fact that it was on the list and skipping the homework.
Always weird to see one of my names in the hotlist. I dropped lucile.ca lucile.ca after realizing that it's pretty much a rare variant on Lucille. Might be a mistake but didn't want to hang to it for decades.
Had the same issue, even had one expired as registerdomain.ca sent me a 0$ invoice marked as paid and renewed that I did not double-check so it lapsed. Retrieved the auth code from transfer.dn.ca but the transfer was refused (lock). Sent a ticket to CIRA and in 5-10 mins all names were...
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.