TBR Drop - Jun 18, 2025 (2.Viewing)

MapleDots said:

Available for hand register

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Hyphens are even worse than numbers!

DomainRecap said:

I was bidding on it, but I freaking hate 'number domains' and find them next-to impossible to sell (and they have low view numbers). Yeah, I know it's 20-20 but I have some equally good ones that never get a sniff, so I'm very hesitant to put any real money down on them.

End price was $260.

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I have "yeux.ca" (eyes in French), but nobody from QC has shown any interest(

MapleDots said:

Yeah, I put in a max bid at $250 and figured whoever bid more on it can sit on it instead of me.

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I bid $249 to see if my "psychic prediction" was correct, and like always, it was.

Then someone bid $260, which would put me in 3rd place.

Brandit said:

I have "yeux.ca" (eyes in French), but nobody from QC has shown any interest(

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Yeah, those French words are quite the hot sellers. Same with Francophone surnames - selling like hotcakes!

I've sold exactly one in my lifetime and think it meant Hopscotch in French. Now I don't even buy French words or surnames unless they're dirt cheap. Everything is different over there, and a lot of what works for English Canada is viewed as insane in French Canada.

Here's a noted difference between English and French Canadian businesses that I mentioned in a previous thread:

As there are incredibly popular French surnames, where the top 50 surnames might comprise half the province of Quebec, businesses have evolved due to this. So instead of Tremblay Construction or Bouchard Homes, the actual Quebec business names are more often something like Francois Tremblay Construction and Jacques Bouchard Homes.

This Quebecois business trend of using both names in your company name/brand, actually limits Francophone first and last-name domain sales and makes them much tougher to sell than an English first or last-name domain, even taking into consideration the population difference.