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The only reason I wanted the complete TBR data is because I was intending to add it to the DR site at some point in time (I stopped posting the Results when I stopped posting Picks), but due to additional work demands and the growth of my portfolio, I have shelved the site for now and will...

Time is money so why else? OCD? I mean, someone is clearly looking for information and taking the time and effort to compile that information, so it must be valuable for their own individual purposes, as otherwise why do it?

Agreed, but I think this seems more suited for an established investor looking to negotiate for a premium price at a low commission, and with the time and capital necessary to do so. The OP's situation seems more like he needs a quick infusion of cash and jumping onboard with the expansive...

It looks like someone, probably RLM or similar, is running scripts from old TBR results to see what happened to the domains (For Sale and Where, Sold or In Use by a Company, 404/Not Resolving, etc.) for their own devious purposes. I'm getting long sequences of Dan hits that correspond exactly...

But only the EXACT MATCH to your primary trademark, effectively limiting a foreign entity to one .CA domain, or at best a couple. I went through this with a CDRP I received from a foreign company and it's not like they can start registering .CA domain will-nilly, and nor can they mass register...

For domainers it would represent a short-term gain with new buyers jumping in initially, then it would be a lot of long-term pain as the bloom would be off the rose pretty quick and .CA would become meaningless to Canadian business. It would soon get lost with all the other generic ccTLDs from...

Here's what I recommend. List every domain on a marketplace (I like Dan as a flexible option) and forward the traffic there using their nameservers. Then set BINs for all domains, using the GD valuation (assuming it's realistic for you) as a starting point to speed things up. No offers, just...

And my week just keeps getting better and better and better... My latest 'offer' on Dan and please note the buyer's oh-so appropriate acronym - why do my listings seem to attract lunatics?

No idea, and that's the problem. There is absolutely no indication on GD what your commission rate is going to be on a given transaction. And it's not even just renewing a domain or making sure it's working, what if a registrar has a DNS issue (like WHC did recently) and GD decides to run their...

I am officially quitting the domain sales racket for a while and will be auto-deleting any offers I get for at least a month. This also may be the straw that broke the GoDaddy's back and I will be using this time to investigate setting up my own landers Why? Because I just sold a domain at GD...

I just checked and you have a $1,000 minimum offer on your premium domains like Pure.ca and Red.ca. I guess since you "considered the number carefully but it also leaves an opening for the rare situation that a large corporation comes calling" then you would seriously consider selling those...

Says the guy who recommended $20 minimum offer prices on GoDaddy (to determine potential demand on new domains) and as you have stated many times in the past the Minimum Offer has absolutely nothing to do with the BIN and is simply a qualifying limit to make sure the potential buyer is not a...

Here's my pearl of wisdom for the day: If you use a Make Offer lander and include a minimum offer amount (hidden or visible) then 80-90% of buyers will think they can purchase the domain for that price. It doesn't matter if your min offer is $20 or $500 or $1,000 or $5,000, if you counter a...

Please note the "sales" portion of my comment, as I meant that when I add up all the domains I rejected a fair offer price on over the past few years (because naturally, I 'thought I could get more') and still own, the number is pretty significant. Some of it was just me being a jerk and others...

Exactly. The key trait in domain investing is to know when to hold 'em, when to fold 'em and when to walk away. And I clearly have no clue, as I've easily lost 6-figures in potential sales by not taking a fair price my brain was telling me to.

Taken off - just got another counter which I have countered.

Somehow I just knew I wouldn't own either one. :rolleyes:

It looks like the GoDaddy-to-Afternic transition may unofficially be taking place today, as this morning I noticed 3 new leads/offers on my Afternic account as well as several old leads that had switched brokers. There is definitely some activity at Afternic. Who knows how it's all going to...

If Retry.com was sold to Booth, why does it still have the same message on it?

None of them will have the impact of AI, but here are some that might have limited fad-potential as tech increases. AR - Augmented Reality FI - Financial Institution IR - Immersive Reality One of those new African nations would pick a name that allows them to select .VR as a ccTLD and start...

Here's me looking for (cough) 'buyers' who will actually pay their sales invoices. I'm 1-for-8 this month (including 0-2 at GD, where I rarely get stiffed) .... :cautious:

And the rest was interest.

Maybe not, but there is a lot of money to be made there. I've worked for a few big companies and at one of them the VP of Finance showed me some tricks of the trade (like weekend interest and hedges) that amounted to millions of dollars a year in profit, by just not paying any bills on a Friday...

Just the news I needed to hear with a couple of pending transactions at GD. GoDaddy was in good shape and making a nice profit with a solid balance sheet, until the executives got all scared due to some large investor groups threatening them if they didn't raise profits. So the self-serving...

But a lot of the domains on that list, and a lot of the 'big sales' in the early-2000's are pretty bad relative to 2024, and you'd have a helluva time even getting your money back today. Like any other era, you could make a lot of money or lose a lot of money, and the era itself doesn't matter...

Looks like it's appealing to a certain niche market (i.e. young, hip and tech-savvy), but as I read more about it, this just gets stranger. The Really service seems to only be available in Austin TX and is a decentralized wireless network that requires for "your neighbors put small radios on...

So by his logic there are no 6-figure domain sales between $101K-$249K, $301K-$599K and $621K-$999K? Those are some pretty huge ranges and I've seen several sales in the 800K range just this year. I hope he's just joking with this and poking a certain domainer who plays with his sales numbers.

This has actually happened to me several times at Dan - it's truly insane that people who clearly don't understand that the "minimum offer" is designed to keep people like them away, and somehow believe that this tactic might work. I think the last one was something like "I don't actually want...

Maybe, but the main problem I have is that the retail domain marketplaces are designed to attract and cultivate potential customers while totally ignoring sellers. It's impossible to really control anything at GoDaddy (which is one reason they're shutting down user domain sales there) while at...

And speak of the Devil, I have a pending sale at GD where the 15-day limit for me to cancel hits on May 1. Whodathunkit, eh? Why are there so many freaking domain deadbeats out there?

And here I am constantly dealing with domain hobos offering up the change in their pockets and expecting me to sell. I think I need another break.

Why in the world isn't it being forwarded to Fort.ca? Maybe this isn't a "friendly" merger and there is some antipathy between a few of the participants? Congrats on the past sales.

Misread that.

Hyphens still work for domains, but only when it's the proper form, and they can't be a 'forced usage' Plan B when the actual domain you want is already registered. If your company is called 'Truth In Advertising' and that domain is taken in .com and .ca, then it's bad form in 2044 to...

Let's just agree to disagree and I was just trying to illustrate better ways to express a variable in a domain name, and his subsequent (City)Realty.com was perfect and I'm sure no one was confused about that. He outdid my efforts in terms of consistency and brevity, and I think I'll use...

True, I have been selling, but unfortunately no one has been paying.

Nope, it's called the English Language and if someone types in that they "got an offer on CityPlumbing.ca" why would you automatically think that City is a variable? Who are you, Kreskin?

Same difference as I wouldn't sell either for $1900.

Then put the Variable word in brackets or quotes (like you just did above) or something like City+Realty.com because the way you did it, there was only one way to read it. I literally thought "Who in the heck would sell CityRealtor.com for $1900 and what company is stupid enough to not buy it...

Sure, but like they say... Every time that I look in the mirror All these lines on my face getting clearer

And if you have any stock of First Name domains, then you'll run into a lot of them. And yes, they're as cheap as dirt.

.CA is kinda on life support (like Canada), with the only action taking place on the TBR auctions.

Whether this started out as an innocent attempt to buy a domain, it's clearly now a targeted promotional campaign to get views on their site, that they hope goes viral. It's pretty sad really.

Sometimes the legal system works.

Probably from that bizarre electric airline who picked the brand name Quantum XYZ, then didn't secure the matching .xyz domain, instead operating off of FlyQuantum.com. I guess that was a costly lesson., assuming it was them.

It's good that this domain has multiple meanings, as then in the future, the company can expand past just automobiles.

No idea, but I did it once because I thought I had to with imported leads on domains with prior offers, but then the system forced me to add it again. :rolleyes:

Just delete the domain from Dan then add it back a day later.

I totally agree with that. Squad Help sounds like an armed forces support group.

https://dn.ca/data/avatars/s/0/260.jpg?1671038356@jamesiles Just wondering exactly how late GD transactions will be handled? The notice states that "time will be given" to these, but exactly what does that mean? Scenario 1: Let's say a buyer agrees to my offer on May 10 but doesn't get it paid...