TRAFFIC Vancouver .CA auction results

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TRAFFIC Vancouver is getting good reviews from all the domain bloggers who've been reporting back on the show. I am looking forward to reading the post-show review that will be at DNJournal.com.

Yesterday they held the .ca auction, and today will be the main auction, followed by the online auction that occurs after each show.

Here are the domains that sold in the .ca auction yesterday:

Vehicles.ca - $9,000

Denim.ca - $500

Diet.ca - $20,000

SurreyRealty.ca - $400

HL.ca - $2,800

Jazz.ca - $1,500

(1) Lot of 50 LLL.ca's - $1,300

(2) Lot of 50 LLL.ca's - $1,200

(3) Lot of 50 LLL.ca's - $1,100

Lot of 500 LLL.ca's - $4,500

HL.ca and Jazz.ca went for lower prices than I would have expected, so good deals for the buyers. The LLL.ca's were also good deals, although when the domains are transferred to the new owners, they will have to pay a registrant fee of about $10 per domain (which also extends the renewal period by one year). For a 50 domain lot this is an extra $500, for a 500 domain lot it's an extra $5,000.

There were a few non-.ca domains listed in the auction, mostly with Vancouver or Canada related keywords. Surrey is a city located beside Vancouver that is large and growing in population (over 400,000 people), so it was not surprising to see this .com domain sell. Perhaps it was bought by Kevin Ham, who owns the Vancouver.com city portal website. Owning Surrey.com would give him the second largest city Geo .com domain in the Lower Mainland of BC.

non-.ca sales:

Surrey.com - $195,000

NovaScotiaJobs.com - $1,000


Ron Jackson at DNJournal has a nice write up on day 2 of the TRAFFIC show, including comments on CIRA and the .ca auction:

http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2010/dailyposts/20100610.htm


The main TRAFFIC auction starts at 3:45 PST today, and there will be more .ca domains in that auction.




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