No More 3 letter .ca's available! (1 Viewing)

Congrats to all of you who own 3 letter .ca's

There are none left to register!

Adam

Hmm, so I wonder who registered all the remaining odd ball 3 letter domains *PARDON*

What do they know that we don't??

It was me that took the remaining few hundred to add to my portfolio.
No supply, now let's see if demand goes up.
Adam

Many left... here a few

fqj.ca
gzf.ca
gzq.ca
kvq.ca
kxq.ca
kzc.ca
lqk.ca
lwq.ca
lzp.ca
xnv.ca
zpl.ca
qdj.ca
qeu.ca
qfv.ca
qfw.ca
qhj.ca
qhv.ca
qjy.ca
qkh.ca
qkw.ca
qmy.ca
qxk.ca
qzc.ca
qzg.ca
qzj.ca
ugz.ca

AdamDicker said:

It was me that took the remaining few hundred to add to my portfolio.
No supply, now let's see if demand goes up.
Adam

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HeHe... I figured that

Now when it comes to 4 letters you will have a hard time catching me, I own hundreds of them.

LCM said:

Many left... here a few

fqj.ca
gzf.ca
gzq.ca
kvq.ca
kxq.ca
kzc.ca
lqk.ca
lwq.ca
lzp.ca
xnv.ca
zpl.ca
qdj.ca
qeu.ca
qfv.ca
qfw.ca
qhj.ca
qhv.ca
qjy.ca
qkh.ca
qkw.ca
qmy.ca
qxk.ca
qzc.ca
qzg.ca
qzj.ca
ugz.ca

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Great research [notify]LCM[/notify]


Welcome to the forum *THUMBSUP*

Thanks [notify]MapleDots[/notify]

Here are a few more if anyone is interested...

uvj.ca
uxz.ca
uyh.ca
uyj.ca
uyn.ca
uyq.ca
uzc.ca
uzg.ca
uzh.ca
uzv.ca
uzw.ca
vjx.ca
vqy.ca
vxz.ca
vzf.ca
wnz.ca
xfv.ca
xkj.ca
xkn.ca
xku.ca
xnv.ca
zcw.ca
zfh.ca
zfk.ca
zfq.ca
zmf.ca
zmj.ca
zmq.ca
zpl.ca
zqf.ca
zqg.ca
zqh.ca
zqk.ca

Thanks!
Adam

You're welcome!

Looks like all the above are now registered as well

Time will tell if Adams plan works or not.

I notice he has some priced much higher than others so Adam obviously thought some of the hand registrations here had better potential than others.

Pretty sure they were all registered at least once before, I think you had registered the last hundreds/thousands at that time? Then I think they all started dropping again. Interesting to see that they are all registered or close to registered again. I think it's worth holding some decent ones, they are good for acronyms of companies, organizations, and people in general. Not to mention good for crypto acronyms. BTC, ETH, NFT...

AdamDicker said:

Congrats to all of you who own 3 letter .ca's

There are none left to register!

Adam

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domains said:

Pretty sure they were all registered at least once before, I think you had registered the last hundreds/thousands at that time? Then I think they all started dropping again. Interesting to see that they are all registered or close to registered again. I think it's worth holding some decent ones, they are good for acronyms of companies, organizations, and people in general. Not to mention good for crypto acronyms. BTC, ETH, NFT...

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Every LLL is unique, a supply of one. Demand for one particular LLL does not usually translate into demand for any other particular LLL. If anything, not getting a specific LLL drives demand for domains like LLL{inc,llc,corp,group} etc etc...

I remember I had cherry picked 500 of the remaining 4000 or so LLL's (if I remember correctly) back in Nov 2004. Then not too long after, Adam bought the remaining ones up. That was a way ballsier move back then because it was 10x more domains than this time. I don't think either of our experiments went all that well as I remember a massive drop of those thousands of LLL's all a few years later. Even the ones I bought didn't do all that well. They broke even for many years, but were not generating profit.

Even now, I still don't get many LLL inquiries and the ones that do expect them for dirt cheap. Until very recently, I hadn't had an LLL sale in 2.5 years. Maybe I ask too much. But if you have 500 of them, you pretty much need a minimum $5000 USD sale once a year to just cover expenses. I even trimmed back some of my LLL.ca holdings to just under 300 or so now.

I like to think that _any_ serious Canadian business should be willing to spend $5K+ on their brand, especially when you consider all the other expenses they _are_ willing to spend on, office space, vehicles, utilities, websites, branding, tv & radio commercials, flyers, etc... And all that crap is recurring. You'd think that a one-time expense for the domain of their dreams would be worthwhile. Not even offering payment plans ever really helped.

But I think in some ways LLL's have lost favour. We were driven towards LLL due to bombardment from LLL Tv network names and big companies with long names reduced to an LLL. While some of that still happens, the younger generation doesn't even watch TV and some wouldn't even know what ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CNN, CBC, BBC, CTV, etc are!

But yes, [notify]domains[/notify] makes the point that crypto has boosted some LLL sales, but then again, even many of the biggest coin symbols in the .com aren't developed.

But you know what those LLL's could be useful for? Padding you portfolio in preparation for portfolio sale. It would be a relatively cheap and easy way to make your portfolio look bigger without it looking like obvious crap filler domains. And if you were valuing your portfolio based on a percentage of some independent valuation like godaddy's, then as long as that negotiated percentage times godaddy's valuation is more than the hand-reg fee, you've increased the value of your portfolio sale.

A purchase like that can also be useful for tasting. Just buy them all up, monitor them for a year and keep the cream, drop the rest. Makes it easier to break even and profit as you only need to find a handful of winners, you just need to be willing to cull the herd after a year so your expenses don't eat up any potential future profits.

Every so often they all get bought up, then they slowly hit TBR and the unreg'd count accumulates. I've contemplated buying them up on occasion but could never bring myself to do it. Adam is braver than I.

2004!!

domains said:

2004!!

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I bought my block of 500 Nov 2004, so I believe it was sometime in 2005 that Adam completed the first time that all LLL's were taken.

The majority of LLL’s that are/were available have no value. Even if you get lucky with one it’s not worth the time or effort as it won’t be break even.

It’s easy to register domains but try renewing the junk over a long period of time.

Also, $5K is a waste of time now….15K-25K is the new 5K. Just like 1M today doesn’t even get you a single detached home in most places in Canada. Nonetheless those who wish to sell domains for low $x,xxx are just leaving tons of money on the table.

Someone bought 300+ LLL.ca domains on Feb 15th, 2020.

I made a post about it at the time (on another forum):



I'm not sure whether the same person kept most or let them drop, but I was/am also hopeful that limited supply would drive up demand. Fingers crossed, and good luck [notify]AdamDicker[/notify].

Main thing for me is I have the 3 letter .com I wanted and needed for my business.

In general the more limited the availability the more the value should rise. That goes for all the .ca domains including my favourite one word domains.

[notify]AdamDicker[/notify], do you get a significant discount from GD (assuming that is who you used) when you buy so many .ca’s in bulk? I ask because that is a lot of renewal fees so you would need to sell more that one of them at a very good price to pay for the renewals.

Nafti said:

do you get a significant discount from GD (assuming that is who you used) when you buy so many .ca’s in bulk? I ask because that is a lot of renewal fees so you would need to sell more that one of them at a very good price to pay for the renewals.

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I get a special deal from GoDaddy, they give me domain discount club for free.

Mind you they look at the volume you do before giving you that and they offered it to me only when I started the process of moving out to cheaper pastures. I guess once they saw how many domains I had and what I paid in auctions they figured they did not want to lose me.

All that is based on you talking to your personal rep, he has the power to waive the fees. You will find your reps name when you log into godaddy, assuming you have the volume to qualify for one.