TBR Drop - Jan 14, 2026 (14.Viewing)

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LCM said:
Over $50,000 was spent to buy the domains below, and none are gambling sites - just relaunched copies of the old site

Am I missing something?????
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This is just the first stage where Mr Gambler recreates the old site from a defunct business, thus giving Google the impression that it's relaunched and can get reindexed for searches. After that's complete, Mr Gambler then inserts gambling affiliate links throughout the site and watches the money roll in.

How many "new" gamblers can you find?
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Online gambling is a true epidemic in North America and apparently there is no end to the number of people you can hook. Over 90% of young males gamble online and addiction levels are way out of control. It's hooked an entire generation that will soon be lost, uneducated, penniless, and without hope.

The house always wins in the end.
 
Legalnonconforming said:
This all comes down to the backlink profile and domain authority, thats it. These guys grab old sites, rebuild them just enough to look alive, then start jamming links straight into the content.
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Placing links into content that is not relevant to the target website makes very weak SEO play. That's not to say they do not do it, it's just there is very little value in it.
 
Anybody having issues pulling up the WHC auctions for this week? The page is blank for me
 
domains said:
Do people really visit a site like energypoverty.ca hoping to find information relevant to that, then see a bunch of unrelated gambling site links and click on those and start gambling? I mean the successful click through rate must be miniscule.
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No. It’s for SEO. That’s it. Google has a master list of sites it trusts. The closer your site is to this master list, the more it trusts you and your site ranks higher in the results. So canada.ca links to a provincial site. That provincial site links out to a local program or org, something like autismspeaks.ca. That domain expires. Mr gambler picks it up and suddenly it’s linking to gambling.ca or wherever. The link graph is still intact, so the trust flows right through it. Google mostly shrugs and moves on. Now gambling.ca ranks higher in the results than their competitor who doesn't have as strong of a link profile.

There is a lot more to ranking than this, but it's always been one of the strongest signals for google. Every backlink is a vote of trust.
 
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Same as above for me.
I placed a bid but can no longer see what I have bid on
 
Legalnonconforming said:
No. It’s for SEO. That’s it.
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It depends on the site, but many of them are totally reconstructed and then gambling links are inserted later, after Google reindexes the URL.

I remember one (it was a site for a Canadian track and field event) sold and was immediately reconstructed almost exactly as it was. The main pages were mostly the same, but if you clicked on "Results" for any event, it would load a page of gambling sites, ranked by some weird metric.

Sometimes it's SEO for forwards and links, but other times, these guys want you to think you're on the actual site, then hammer you with gambling links.
 
LCM said:
Over $50,000 was spent to buy the domains below, and none are gambling sites - just relaunched copies of the old site
artscapegibraltarpoint.ca
takeanewapproach.ca
ppgreview.ca
energypoverty.ca
thelinkottawa.ca
vignettesyeg.ca
houseofwheels.ca
naturespickins.ca

Am I missing something?????

...not that it matters, since I'm not expending too much energy trying to figure it out - just mildly curious/disturbed.
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My point too
 
I find it amazing how drastically the TBR domain auctions have changed, from one that highlights premium end user domains, to one that predominantly features SEO/traffic domains at the top of the auction list.

I guess the money goes where there's profit to be had. So with Canada's economy firmly in the 3rd-world dumpster, there are not a lot of fat-walleted end users to rushing buy these retail .CA domains. I knew the market would evolve, but not like this.

Plus, the number of premiums hitting the TBR have dropped to almost zero - where are the LLs? the premium LLLs? the premium words like aura, ranger, canoe, legend, pandora, matrix, bets, etc.? Or even nice names like Brad, Mary or Karen? Hell even CC's? These used to be relatively common, but no more.
 
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DomainRecap said:
Plus, the number of premiums hitting the TBR have dropped to almost zero - where are the LLs? the premium LLLs? the premium words like aura, ranger, canoe, legend, pandora, matrix, bets, etc.? Or even nice names like Brad, Mary or Karen? Hell even CC's? These used to be relatively common, but no more.
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It only takes one of the old timers to get sick or die and the premiums will fall. Very few domainers have realistic succession plans.
 

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