1-word generic .CA's in the wild (13.Viewing)

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silentg said:
They got 7 people working under IT department.
The National Ballet of Canada
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well then at least 7 people need to be fired, plus the entire marketing department. You can't tell me that none of these people have noticed this, and for none of them to step and and take a tiny bit of responsibility to fix it is appalling. I don't want employees like that!
 
Saw this ad today while I was playing a game on my phone. An interesting way to use a first name .ca domain.
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I was at a wildfire conference today and saw a few nice one-words used in the wild. I didn't get around to taking pics of all of them though, but it was nice to see Firetrucks and Oasis in use. I also saw that Motion.com was a vendor, awesome name.

I vaguely remember seeing Firetruck.ca go through TBR a handful of years back, was kinda surprised I didn't grab it myself, just for fun. Maybe someone here sold that guy FireTrucks.ca?

And in chatting with various vendors, some will ask what I do for a living so I tell them about domains and there were a few domain stories from people other than myself. One guy told me how he sold his domain greenbridge.com for $11K after years of being pestered by people offering $1K. He said when he finally got a decent offer out of the blue, he just took it, didn't even bother negotiating.

Oh, and if someone sells vft.ca - I told a company Vallfirest that they had a shitty name and they said yeah, they knew that no one could remember it but it was sentimental to the owner, so they were using VFTNorthAmerica.com instead. I said for god sakes, please go buy VFT.ca! So if you own it and get a sale, I want a commission haha.

And speaking of upgrading domains, I also noticed the following vendors that could use an upgrade:

aircharterservice.ca (to aircharter.ca)
firepowerplus.com (to firepower.ca)
vihaerospace.com (to vih.ca)

I didn't tell them I owned those, but its always a bit of a game for me to identify domains I own that would be good upgrades for businesses I see while around town or traveling.
 
rlm said:
They certainly have a marketing person... I'm guessing the payroll guy isn't also buying ads for the side of a bus.

And I'm sure it would have been a marketing person who decided to go with national.ballet.ca and not ballet.ca - its not a natural choice any one else would have made.

And whats even more stupid is that they also own nationalballet.ca and it doesn't resolve either!! They've owned these domains for years. And its a fairly detailed website with subscriptions/ticketing, etc...

So I think there's no way they don't have a full web development team contracted to do all of this. They all need to be fired for complete stupidity and lack of understanding their jobs.
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Reading through this nearly two and a half years later, and would you believe it, the plain ballet.ca and nationalballet.ca still don’t resolve!
 
lmh said:
Reading through this nearly two and a half years later, and would you believe it, the plain ballet.ca and nationalballet.ca still don’t resolve!
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creditcards.ca is dead too, not even redirecting. a bit insane if you ask me. But I think after a take-over or two, I'm not even sure if the current company realizes they own it. It also wouldn't surprise me if some employee wouldn't try to slip away with the domain for themselves.
 

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