How long have you been investing in .ca’s? (1.Viewing)

So the question is how long have you been investing in .ca’s? I will start and say about 15 years. Only in the last 2 1/2 years have I gotten more involved in it. I guess it can be somewhat of an addiction. Sometimes it’s nice to hear a word or someone’s name and be like “I own you in .ca”!

Probably about the same time for me. Got my account at Namespro.ca in 2004.
We can remember when it was a lot more time consuming to transfer a .ca name than it is today. The hardest part of a sale/purchase was trying to explain to someone that wasn’t a domain investor how it worked

I started in 2000 when I wanted a personal email address, I searched for weeks for a .com until I found MapleOne.com

I grabbed it and Frank@MapleOne.com was born.

Then a friend said what if someone send to Frank@Maple1.com?

So I registered Maple1 and pointed the email to MapleOne and of course you know what happened next. Then I wanted the .ca's and finally the .net's and a domainer was sitting on MapleOne.net. He quoted me a hefty sum and I waited over 10 years for him to drop it and I snatched it up.

So for the first two years I bought about 60 domains and ran under MapleOne.

In 2002 I owned MapleDomains and I was going to change my company name to that but the .com was taken and I was quoted 10k. So MapleDots was born and believe it or not my inspiration for the name came from https://www.dippindots.com and not from domaining.

So now I own 5 companies and the holding company is called MapleOne while my domaining company is MapleDots.

I started domaining in earnest in 2002 and had DomainDirect (now called hover) register every single .ca and dot com of two beginning letters and canada. So MBCanada.com & MBCanada.ca and every variant. There were over 600 available and the owner of the company wrote a script and grabbed them all for me. Over the years I sold a ton of those and dropped the ones that had no traffic.

After that I registered almost every available Maple with a second word in .ca and .com because I figured the canadian symbol is the maple and a lot of businesses would be looking for that. I was right and eventually Huge Domains figured it out too and they always bid against me on a Maple.com.

Over the years I have sold a lot of Maple Domains and that has become my niche but since then I have evolved once more and now it is mainly one word .ca domains that I purchase.


So there is a MapleDots history lesson