Summer Doldrums & Winter Blues (2.Viewing)

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You really can't beat Afternic. They're partnered with 8 out of the top 10 registrars. Sure, your ultra premium one-word domain gets enough inquiries from direct traffic, but for average domains, there's a good chance the buyer found that domain through search queries with a partnered registrar.
 
well a possible sale in the works for mid xxxx US right now, could be one of those smooth ones, agreed on price quickly and moving through escrow now. we'll see. on a .ca domain.

another inquiry on a different .ca in the past month, but it's one of my best and after saying my range is xx,xxx haven't heard back, but it's one where I don't care unless I get a strong price.
 
So after months of near silence, March heated up for me with half a dozen inquiries and two closed .ca sales totaling $6500 US. As my sale on DomainEasy closed yesterday, a new Afternic offer came in on another domain. Strange this is happening at a time when the Canadian economy is on shaky legs, go figure because I haven’t. If I could do that in sales even every 2 or 3 months that would be a great side hustle income.
 
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Here's my latest gem:

"No thanks. I work as a nonprofit for community families, so this would be insane, counterproductive, and frankly...robbery. lol. So much for ethical business practices hey?"
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I just got this one...

Hi
I want to buy waterloo.com. I lead a nonprofit at University of Waterloo called Waterloo Blockchain and I want to use it for our nonprofit. Please let me know if that is possible.

Best,
H*****
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After a March / April flurry it's back to the summer doldrums!

Encouraging to see others getting sales here lately though, plus seeing all the big domain sales (usually .com and .ai) getting reported on an almost daily basis now.

Though my portfolio is mostly .ca I do have a good chunk of .com domains, and other extensions, that I think could potentially result in some xx,xxx to xxx,xxx sales at some point lol.
 
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After a March / April flurry it's back to the summer doldrums!
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Sounds like every businessman/person in Canada, and once the Libs kept the (freak)show running, you could just hear the groans from Canadian business being stuck with the "go woke/go broke" Liberals for yet another term. It was blatantly obvious Canadian business wanted the PCs in power to balance the books and get the economy going again, but I didn't know the Liberals winning would produce such a stark economic downturn, with all kinds of doom & gloom financial articles and forecasts.

The interest level from Canadian .CA buyers during Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr compared to May/June is like night and day, and it's not looking like there will be a recovery anytime soon. The only hope you have is to find a US or Euro-based company looking to expand to Canada, as foreign interest has been the only interest I've seen lately.
 
I'm not sure it matters either way, if the Conservatives had gotten in and kept their promises of trying to reduce deficits and cut spending, it would be causing pain in the economy for a while before things improved. Pain will come from the Liberals too, but they are kicking the can further down the road instead of tackling the problems head on. They just pretend everything is ok and most people want to believe it. It might be even worse with the new Liberals, as they have cut some taxes and proposed more tax cuts to some things, while at the same time proposing more spending on things like military which was announced just this week. I don't think reducing government revenues and increasing government spending will end well, though I won't complain about any tax cuts as Canadians are already highly overtaxed.
 
Summer wasn't bad, but from August into September has been an absolute dead zone for .CA sales and I really think the Border War with the US and the higher costs of shipping/exporting to the United States have finally hit Canadian companies really hard.

All I see in the news are cries from business for government subsidies and bailouts due to the higher tariffs, so a lot of companies probably have bigger fish to fry than buying a new domain or upgrading an existing one.
 
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From mid-August to the end of September has been the worst period I've ever experienced for .CA domains, with zero sales and lots and lots of deadbeats, along with idiot trolls sending me fake offers in the 6- and 7-figure range. Those I ignored, but I "closed" at least 6 deals at regular pricing, but was paid for NONE of them (this never happens), and the amount of highball/lowball whackos has been increasing exponentially.

Just yesterday I received multiple offers between $100,000 and $150,000, all from obvious inbred psychotics, and I'm also finding more and more lowballers trying to worm their way into the Atom and Afternic systems by calling a rep/broker and spewing BS like "I'd like to make an offer, but my max is $95" and sure enough, an offer of $95 mysteriously shows up even though I have a 4-figure minimum bid.

Great... :mad:

My current situation is bad news, with lowballers, fake highballers and deadbeats wasting my time at a record pace, and I hope others are having better luck selling .CA than I am. 🤞
 
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Yeah still crickets, even with my non .ca domains which always surprises me. Seeing as .com .io .co names are still selling, figured I'd be getting at least the odd nibble there.

The recent .ca sales I've seen reported, and there haven't been many, seem to be oddball type stuff for the most part.
 
I've recently switched most of my DomainEasy listed domains to BIN with ability to contact owner, rather than a Min Offer only or Min Offer and BIN. Just to switch it up a little. I do have a small group of domains that I consider possible moonshots, and only have make offer or a high BIN for those ones, or they go to my own landing page. The things we do when times are slow. At least gold/silver mining stocks are up big this year, and crypto seems to be coming back.
 
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The recent .ca sales I've seen reported, and there haven't been many, seem to be oddball type stuff for the most part.
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I know, and it's oddball or very specific (heavily targeted?) stuff being sold and reported, and these recent trends have me really second-guessing a lot of potential .CA domain buys, especially at the mid-range or lower. It's just not feasible anymore to put real money into anything less than premium domains at a good price.

Luckily I built up a bit of a war chest during the Spring/Summer, but I'm certainly not going to foolishly blow it all on mid-range TBR auctions at nosebleed prices, or at least until our economic situation drastically improves.
 

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