TBR Drop - May 28, 2025 (1.Viewing)

Thanks @clarkemarketing That was my thinking too. Appreciate your comment.

clarkemarketing said:

In my opinion almost all these traffic domain purchases are unprofitable.

Click to expand...

It's like the TBR - it used to be profitable to buy .CA domains at pre-COVID prices, but now that wholesale price levels have spiked and auctions have taken over, I am betting a lot of new investors are losing a lot of money, even if they don't realize it.

It's not like .CA buyers suddenly tripled (or more) their asking prices overnight.

DomainRecap said:

It's like the TBR - it used to be profitable to buy .CA domains at pre-COVID prices, but now that wholesale price levels have spiked and auctions have taken over, I am betting a lot of new investors are losing a lot of money, even if they don't realize it.

It's not like .CA buyers suddenly tripled (or more) their asking prices overnight.

Click to expand...

It's not just the TBR, GoDaddy auction prices look like retail these days... similar to most other asset classes from crypto to real estate, thanks to central banks printing trillions there is a lot more money chasing the same amount of stuff.

clarkemarketing said:

It's not just the TBR, GoDaddy auction prices look like retail these days... similar to most other asset classes from crypto to real estate, thanks to central banks printing trillions there is a lot more money chasing the same amount of stuff.

Click to expand...

Yeah, but too bad the vast majority of buyers don't feel the same way.

I've noticed a LOT of price resistance towards .CA from Canadian buyers lately, and the only serious inquiries/negotiations/sales have come from US or European interest. The foreign market seems to have a lot of money and while Canadian business was active before the election, since the Libs took over (thus crushing Canadian business hopes for fiscally-sound Conservative government) there has been a real pall over the entire economy, with a recession predicted very soon.

It's kinda nuts, as we're now the 5th most indebted country (by GDP) in the world and as our population grows, our GDP per capita shrinks (similar to a 3rd world/developing nation), which is the opposite of what should happen. I guess crime really doesn't pay.

I look at the immediate future of Canada's economy and I see one word: PAIN

DomainRecap said:

It's kinda nuts, as we're now the 5th most indebted country (by GDP) in the world

Click to expand...

5th most in the world? or in the G7?

In 2025, the debt-to-GDP ratios for G7 countries
Here's a detailed breakdown:

• Japan: 239.97%.
• Italy: 135.30%.
• United States: 120.79%
• France: 113.00%.
• Canada: 110.77%.
• United Kingdom: 101.23%.
• Germany: 62.50%

LCM said:

5th most in the world? or in the G7?

Click to expand...

The article I saw was from The Globe & Mail and it stated the data was for First World/Developed Nations and covered the impending recession and why it's going to hit Canada really hard. Our absolutely massive infrastructure deficit, a rapidly declining debt-to-GDP position, the rampant growth of non-permanent residents, and the "mystery population" of MIA temporary foreign workers, VISA holders, foreign students, and other various miscreants and illegals hidden in Canada.

I just checked the Dec/24 debt-to-GDP results and Canada was 16th worldwide when you include everyone (Sudan, Lebanon and Eritrea certainly put us to shame LOL), and 7th among First World, but with the residual Trudeau-effect lingering and the woke, free-spending Liberals back in power, I can only assume the up-to-date numbers have gotten worse and Canada has dropped even further.

And you keep quoting Canadian citizenship and immigration numbers, but we all know that's not the core issue here - it's the burgeoning masses of Non-Permanent Residents. Before Trudeau came to power, there were less than 20,000 NPRs in Canada and in Q1 2025 there are well over 3,000,000 NPRs - even as recently as 2020 there were less than a million. Do the math on those growth numbers!

Here's the latest NPR trends straight from StatsCan:



You keep quoting 2% population growth numbers, but try looking at the insane NPR stats - those numbers will blow your brains. And that's not even counting the MIAs who stay in Canada instead of going home when ordered. The Liberals freely admit they have no clue on the sheer numbers or where these prior foreign students/workers even are, as there is zero enforcement.

And as you know, Canada does NOT perform background/security checks on foreign students so it's the easiest pipeline for criminal organization to add scammers and thieves to their ranks:

Canada should run security checks on all international students: Senator Downe

Just this year alone, there were 50,000 no-shows for foreign students who never attended class, and at least 75.000 who should have gone back home but who are MIA and likely contributing to our blossoming Canadian Crime Wave:

Nearly 50,000 foreign students listed as ‘no-shows’ by Canadian schools

Hi everyone,
As always, auctions start closing at 1 PM (ET). You can still join the auction and place your bids for today's drop.

Anyone get their "outbid" notices after the auctions closed? I got a bunch at 1:20pm

Always do. I have received them after 5 pm too.

Spex said:

Anyone get their "outbid" notices after the auctions closed? I got a bunch at 1:20pm

Click to expand...

Yep, they're always late due to the mass numbers.

Weird, usually they are pretty good

Spex said:

Weird, usually they are pretty good

Click to expand...

Yes, I agree, but this might be the @FM effect.

Spex said:

Weird, usually they are pretty good

Click to expand...

Personally, I think a lot of ISPs see this absolute mass of email flying in and automatically flag it as potential SPAM, and this delays receipt of the messages.

All my other random WHC email arrives on-time, such as the TBR order and auction updates, or when I'm renewing.

I participate in many other auctions ( not just domains) and I don't have any issues with the "outbid" notices arriving in my inbox on time, except for WHC.

Eby said:

I participate in many other auctions ( not just domains) and I don't have any issues with the "outbid" notices arriving in my inbox on time, except for WHC.

Click to expand...

Sure, but none of those places have anywhere near the auction volume of WHC - often clicking the '50' number selection doesn't fit them all.

I'm not trying to make excuses for them, but I know for sure Bell was flagging their "mass deluge" of emails as SPAM - part of it is due to WHC sending an email every time you fart - like mass-changing nameservers will absolutely kill my inbox as you receive one email per domain.

Honestly, I don't think so. Those platforms have 100s of bidders online and bidding on 1000+ items. So it is a much busier auction than the domain auction at WHC where a handful bid against each other.

Eby said:

Honestly, I don't think so. Those platforms have 100s of bidders online and bidding on 1000+ items. So it is a much busier auction than the domain auction at WHC where a handful bid against each other.

Click to expand...

Maybe they have a better and more robust mail system that they constantly whitelist. These days, anyone sending out mass bursts of email over a very short period of time is going to get flagged, at least initially.

I don't know if you have Bell or not, but they are extremely aggressive in locking down my valid mass-emails, while pushing through single-message SPAM like mad.