Hand regged a one-word .ca today... (9.Viewing)

Ok, so not a fantastic domain or anything, but it is one-word and I actually had a use for it.

Pickling.ca

Since I've been a work-from-home domainer for the past 20+ years, I putz around the kitchen a lot. One of my annual summer traditions is to make dill pickles, by the gallons (I typically do 3 or 4 gallons a summer). So I was on a Reddit thread about pickle recipes and needed to share mine and I finally got around to doing that. Of course rather than just posting the recipe directly, I thought, I must have a pickle domain in my inventory. Nope, didn't own anything pickles... Did a quick whois on some pickle variations and pickling.ca was available.

So I threw up a vintage 1990 quality website today with my recipe, haha. So if anyone likes dill pickles, let me know if they ever try it. Or the pickled jalapenos.

Then I got to thinking, what was the whois history of this domain?

Turns out its been in and out of domainer's hands multiple times in the past 4 years:

DOMAIN STATUS CREATED UPDATED EXPIRY REGISTRAR
pickling.ca IA,PD,SH,SRP,STP,SUP 2020-06-13 2021-08-24 2021-06-13 ca.godaddy.com
pickling.ca IA,STP 2021-09-01 2021-09-01 2022-09-01 whc.ca
pickling.ca CTP,STP 2021-09-01 2021-12-29 2023-09-01 namespro.ca
pickling.ca CTP 2021-09-01 2022-02-27 2023-09-01 namespro.ca
pickling.ca CTP,PD,SH,SRP,STP,SUP 2021-09-01 2023-10-02 2023-09-01 namespro.ca
pickling.ca ADD,STP 2024-09-19 2024-09-19 2025-09-19 baremetal.com

Furthermore, my records show it's been through TBR 4 times now that I know of, dating back to 2012. Obviously it didn't get picked up in the last one.

2012-08-15 DROPPED,
2019-10-30 DROPPED, HAND REGGED ON 2020-06-13
2021-09-01 DROPPED, PICKED UP IN TBR
2023-10-04 DROPPED, HAND REGGED ON 2024-09-19

Obviously a few past owners gave up on ever selling it for much and cut their losses.

I would have dropped pickling.ca as well, it's a niche type of domain.

That said...

My wife comes from a long line of Picklers, her extended family sells at market and the business is huge. Everyone that eats their pickles raves about them and wants the recipe but it is a closely guarded secret and they wont give it to my wife so she has no choice but to buy their pickles in the old mason jars. The only discount she gets is when she returns the jars. The family has regular and fermented pickles, I did not know fermented pickles were even a thing and I hear they leave them laying in the sun for a while. I can just imagine the grossness of that with all the flies.

I gave the domain to my wife and she downloaded your PDF and I have to say she was pickled pink.

Her exact words... Ohhhhhh, I'm so excited to try that and beat by mother in laws recipe.

My reaction... Oh my god, who would do all that work instead of going out and buying a jar of pickles

Available

Well, seems like it was listed for sale for not that much.