Where (or when...) Does the Money Come From? (1.Viewing)

Are present-day acquisitions worth it?

Comes from a mix

I registered a key phrase I saw on twitter a while back and flipped it for 2.5k

Another example is the one I saw this morning getting me to think some Canadians are bound to want this AmericanGoldVisa.ca as well.

I generally don't register 3 words so I thought better of it but there is probably room there if you take a chance on a hand reg.

CanuckDomains said:

Are present-day acquisitions worth it?

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Most of the real money will come from domains that you've held for a very long time, probably 5+ years.

Domain investing is never going to be a Get Rich Quick scheme, as the ROI can take forever, and due to many of your bets never panning out, for many it's going to be a Get Poor Slow experience.

Generally older domains sell for higher prices, because higher quality domains were registered longer ago. Are there exceptions? Sure, new words and terms emerge all the time, and newer extensions like .ai can get hot. Also it is not that unusual to register a domain and get an offer within a year - now it may be an $xxx offer but still I wouldn't say that's unusual.

My only 6 figure sale came from a .ca hand reg in the mid 2010's that I couldn't believe was available to hand reg. I think it might have been a domain that was taken from a non-Canadian presence registrant by CIRA and released back in the pool, and I just happened to have good timing. No other way I can explain it, unless it slipped through a TBR while everyone was sleeping. WIthin a few years I sold it after a company inquired about it. Have had several low 5 figure sales and many 4 figure sales over the years, and most of those were hand regs. Sometimes you see some close out sales here on .ca's that people are going to let drop, I have bought from those in the past and usually there are domains in there that 'could' sell for much higher with the right buyer and situation.

If I was going to focus on something, it would not be how old the domains are, it would be what is selling. Go through all the domain sales reports you can every week and you get an idea of what words, terms, extensions are hot. Which might make you wonder why we are all still here investing in .ca's! lol

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Go through all the domain sales reports you can every week and you get an idea of what words, terms, extensions are hot. Which might make you wonder why we are all still here investing in .ca's! lol

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I was just going to say that - if you go through the sales charts to determine what to buy, probably the last extension you'll look at is .CA.

Not that you can't make a sale, it's just a very tough market populated by cheapskates who don't or can't see the value in a domain. All you can do it keep throwing that spaghetti on the wall and hope you get lucky and something sticks.

DomainRecap said:

I was just going to say that - if you go through the sales charts to determine what to buy, probably the last extension you'll look at is .CA.

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The .ca industry is dominated by a few top players who own the vast majority of viable .ca domains.

Most of those guys do not regularly report their sales.

For example, I stopped reporting my sales a few years ago because I found it was creating more competition for me.

MapleDots said:

The .ca industry is dominated by a few top players who own the vast majority of viable .ca domains.

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There's definitely more than a few...

MapleDots said:

The .ca industry is dominated by a few top players who own the vast majority of viable .ca domains.

Most of those guys do not regularly report their sales.

For example, I stopped reporting my sales a few years ago because I found it was creating more competition for me.

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It's strange that you think .CA is so different from other TLDs, where every single .COM, .AI, .IO, .CO, .etc. sale ever made has been fully recorded, right? Just yesterday there were probably millions of dollars of .COM sales that went unreported, but that's obviously not what I'm talking about.

I'm clearly referring to the 'rank and file' sales on the various marketplaces, which are an indicator of overall sales. They can't hide, yet you barely see a .CA sale appear on lists every few months - often you go 6 months without seeing one. Reported sales are like an iceberg with only the tip showing out of the water to indicate what may be hidden below, but lately, there hasn't even been a tip of the iceberg showing for .CA.

To me, this clearly indicates that .CA sales are down right now, rather than believing in smoke-filled hidden rooms littered across the country, with mysterious moustache-twirling magnates cackling away as they continually sell their monopoly of .CA domains for millions of dollars each.

DomainRecap said:

but lately, there hasn't even been a tip of the iceberg showing for .CA

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January had quite a few sales shared with me.
Some were significant but it is not my place to discuss those unless the member opens a topic.

There are several key players on this board that have consistent sales and almost none of them get reported.

So I am privy to a bit more information and from what I see .ca is not dead, it is quiet but there is a nice steady stream of sales.
The 5 largest sales of last year (that were shared with me) all went unreported and I wish members would share more but I understand why they are coy as well.

I think all the sales we do see in every extension, every week, is a small to medium fraction of the total amount that happen. Probably much less than 50%.