TBR Drop - Nov 15, 2023 (1.Viewing)

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With the quality of dropping domains dwindling over the last several weeks, there was an unusual spike in the number of domains registered during the drop. But is drop-catching still profitable for the Registrars providing that services?

Next week's list during my initial glance was like sub-zero quality, except for those westvancouver domains. Hope there will be a gem or two to keep it interesting.
 
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Nice list, looks like whoever lands Stellar.ca will be the winner.
 
CatchDrop said:
That's probably because your not paying close Attention.ca ;)
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No, I saw that one, but it's not a premium IMO (it's not a word you would often use alone as a brand) and it's almost certainly going to be overbid way past its worth.

Stellar, on the other hand, is the real deal.

I don't want to know what Stellar is going to sell for, but I'd rate the price somewhere between "way too much" and "way, way, way too much".
 
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Eby said:
With the quality of dropping domains dwindling over the last several weeks, there was an unusual spike in the number of domains registered during the drop. But is drop-catching still profitable for the Registrars providing that services?

Next week's list during my initial glance was like sub-zero quality, except for those westvancouver domains. Hope there will be a gem or two to keep it interesting.
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As you know each additional TBR connection costs $1000 /year. The number of connections each participating registrar currently holds is not public after CIRA dropped the one registrar-one connection rule (that is how dot-com drop-catch works). My wild guess is that there are at lease 100 TBR specific connections among all registrars. This will generate $100,000 revenue for CIRA annually.
Now consider all extra overhead in running the TBR systems, servers, programmers, auctions etc.; it gives a break even point of 2 or 3 multiples.

The TBR end users are a small circle of experienced dot-ca domainers. So the question is how much in total they spend on the TBR every year, then you would know how profitable it is or not.

No doubt a clear winner is CIRA. Besides that, each registrar success level is more or less correlated with the number of TBR connections they have. Individual registrars may also be profitable in any given year due to a better tuned system or pure luck but IMO not for tbr registrars as a group (even with quality lists). I think the motivation is not the profit, maybe it's the fun of play!
 
CatchDrop said:
It seems to be some sort of Special Release by the Registry, the same applies for Attention.ca
I invite all the experts here to give their opinion
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Yep, someone dropped Stellar, but it's was probably Stellar.on.ca or similar, and as it was the last Stellar using the old provincial format, it was transformed into a .CA for the TBR.

Probably a company went out of business and didn't realize earlier that all their Stellar.xx.ca neighbors had all flown the coop and they could have requested the .CA.
 
It had to be Stellar Schools at stellar.nf.ca as that seems to be the most recent, with records available for as recent as June 2023.

They're still live on Google Search under that URL and the Stellar program is still going for Sept-Dec 2023, so maybe someone dropped it by mistake?

Freaking newfies! :D
 

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