The most Overpriced .CA Domains on GoDaddy Auction (1 Viewing)

Is there an simple way to find under which province a name is registered?

How does one even find a thousand restriced by Cira .ca names unless it is a trade secret

FM said:

andrew.ca is on serverHold though, so likely the registration is still pending approval by CIRA.

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Can you tell which registrar is trying to register that name, just curious

I thought I got lucky last time when I registered close to 100 domains last time. Learned about the restrictions and lost them all. Never sold any.

Registered 2 domains that is showing up as Pending Registrations. I messaged Richard regarding it. Let's see if it gets cancelled.

Another glitch?

silentg said:

Registered 2 domains that is showing up as Pending Registrations. I messaged Richard regarding it. Let's see if it gets cancelled.
Another glitch?

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Oh Wow.. so my fears are getting confirmed. What is going on with CIRA. A call on Monday is now warranted.

sonatime said:

Is there an simple way to find under which province a name is registered?

How does one even find a thousand restriced by Cira .ca names unless it is a trade secret

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Trade secret. Basically its nearly 20 years of research and record keeping.

sonatime said:

Is there an simple way to find under which province a name is registered?

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You just check whois for every provincial extension...

sonatime said:

Can you tell which registrar is trying to register that name, just curious

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Tucows, as it says in the whois, could be one of their resellers, too.

What’s the policy regarding the release of restricted domain names? Should it be announced publicly and be made into an auction? Or can CIRA just secretly release it?

Lurker said:

What’s the policy regarding the release of restricted domain names? Should it be announced publicly and be made into an auction? Or can CIRA just secretly release it?

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This is another mistake and should not have happened.

When a valid release of previously-restricted (due to expired provincial limits) occurs it will process like any other expired domain, and go through the various stages until finally it hits the TBR list.

Although Richard at CIRA has stated he will notify us when these "release waves" start, I'm sure the quality domains will be readily apparent just from eyeballing the TBR list.

DomainRecap said:

Although Richard at CIRA has stated he will notify us when these "release waves" start, I'm sure the quality domains will be readily apparent just from eyeballing the TBR list.

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Yep, exactly. And if it takes Richard announcing it to notice, then its probably not that good to begin with.

I really do believe that the information needs to be published somewhere. As it gives an unfair advantage to those who are not watching the TBR weekly to see if a restricted domain is going to magically appear in TBR.

It’s one thing to monitor during expiration period. I think regardless of domain it needs to be announced with sufficient notice.

theinvestor said:

I really do believe that the information needs to be published somewhere. As it gives an unfair advantage to those who are not watching the TBR weekly to see if a restricted domain is going to magically appear in TBR.

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The CIRA have never done it before when releasing these "last drop" provincial domains, there is no requirement for it, and I think Richard is just being nice to us by giving the forum a head's up. These are also no different than any other TBR expired domain, which include a pile a junkers interspersed with a few premiums from time to time.

Remember, these are NOT geo-restricted or premium domains, they're just regular ones from the old "provincial format" days, and the vast majority will likely be absolute junk with no use but to the original owner, just like any other TBR expired domain list. But there could be some diamonds in the rough, just like any other TBR expired list.

I think everyone is overvaluing the average quality of these domains, as 99% will likely be crap and it's really a numbers game. If there are lot there is chance for a few select premium to pop up, but this probably isn't going to be some massive windfall of ultra-premiums that falls into our laps - I wish.

And exactly how would they announce these drops properly so that everyone in Canada sees it and no one misses out? Parse through a few thousand domains to look for the gems, then feature them on a national TV, Radio, Online and Newspaper advertising campaign?

You love going over the top. I think it’s not too much to ask for on cira’s TBR page that they are releasing restricted names. Even an email wouldn’t hurt. It doesn’t matter who sees it. It still needs to be announced.

theinvestor said:

You love going over the top. I think it’s not too much to ask for on cira’s TBR page that they are releasing restricted names. Even an email wouldn’t hurt. It doesn’t matter who sees it. It still needs to be announced.

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Over the top? You're the one acting like this is some big Gold Rush where the premium domains will be flowing like water.

I really hope you understand exactly what these domains are - these are just random-quality old school provincial names that expired but sometimes the system didn't properly release them and they got "stuck". It's just an addendum to the standard TBR list and with some exceptions (just like on any TBR list) it's hardly anything to get excited about.

It's going to be the same crap we get each week on the TBR, just more of it due to some "stuck" ones.

That’s great but what’s the big deal that CIRA let’s us know in advance? Or better yet how about they pass on that message to the registrars and they can choose to let their customers know.

It’s not much to ask for and although they may have little interest to you there are some people that have been waiting for years for specific domains to be released.

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That’s great but what’s the big deal that CIRA let’s us know in advance?

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I think Richard is just being nice to the forum, as he knows it's going to be "just another pile of random-quality TBR domains" hitting the lists in stages, and hardly anything Earth-shattering. On average, the quality of these old provincial .CA releases should not be any better or worse than the average TBR list - lots & lots of junk along with a few premiums.

Instead of joesbarandgrillmississaugaontario.ca hitting the TBR, it will have been joesbarandgrillmississaugaontario.on.ca.

The only reason many of us are interested is because higher weekly TBR domain numbers mean more work parsing the list, which benefits those who roll up their sleeves and get to work. Like those times the TBR was cancelled and 2 weeks were rolled into one - I made out like a bandit.

Personally I think they need to do it in a fair way for everyone and release a list similar to TBR saying these domains are going to be released on this date and there will be a separate TBR run for them. I would say they should save them up until they have a nice list and go from there.

If not then they need to release them in TBR just like usual and NEVER make it a first register first get type of scenario because if one person gets a heads up they will register all of them.

You are doing this on a weekly basis. What about the random guy that just wants xxxxx.com domain and can’t seem to backorder at myid since it’s not on their next weeks list? You’re telling me there is no solution here but going through TBR every week to see if xxxxx.com decided to drop this week?

MapleDots said:

If not then they need to release them in TBR just like usual and NEVER make it a first register first get type of scenario because if one person gets a heads up they will register all of them.

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These are just a pile of TBR domains that got "stuck" in the system and will be released in stages on the regular TBR. That way everyone gets a fair shot and ample time to preorder and bid.

These domains are only "restricted" because someone registered it at the provincial level, then when it expired, the system often didn't recognize it as such, and it got 'stuck".

So due to this, people hoping for a Gold Rush of ultra-premiums "restricted domains" are going to be sorely disappointed - it's just going to be a slightly bigger TBR list with the same average quality as any other week. Good, bad & ugly.

theinvestor said:

You’re telling me there is no solution here but going through TBR every week to see if xxxxx.com decided to drop this week?

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If it's remotely any good it will be prominently featured on the WHC Hot Bid List, so just check that every Wednesday morning. Takes less than a minute.