Thanks Frank, will be interesting to see. The .ca cannot get a better venue so its make or break imo.

Well, Surrey.com rescued whole “.ca” auction. Te same keywords but in Polish and with .pl TLD would get higher bids, which is quite odd for me. I would expect at least 50% more but for .ca names. Does anyone can explain to me why Branding.ca, Jazz.ca or Fund.ca didn’t find buyers?

I love the automated appraisal sites.
Valuate states that Surrey is worth $ 82K.
And, they are willing to sell it at a discounted price for the owner.

Congratulations to the seller of Surrey.

“Another factor is that english-speaking market in Canada is smaller than polish speaking in Poland.”

What?… actually I know what you mean but what does that have to do with the extension. So I suppose dot com suffers globally lol And btw over 80% of Canadians hold english as their first language ( census ).

For your theory to hold water it would mean that non english speakers around the world wouldnt use dot com either and within Canada .ca, nonsense.

Following through on the economic argument put forward earlier by Namer.ca:
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- Canada’s economy is largely driven by exports to the US. In fact, the US represents over 2/3rds of all Canadian trade (imports & exports combined). A .ca domain can act a ‘barrier’ for US customers to visit and/or purchase (both b2b and regular consumers).
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- Despite .com being a global-TLD, it is often thought of as being the ‘American’ extension. Given the economic reality (mentioned above), it is vital that Canadians ‘speak’ & ‘talk’ in the language of our American neighbours (err: neighbors – hehe). And, in the language of the internet, a .com speaks more to a US citizen than a .ca (or even a .us for that matter).
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- America’s largest trading partner is Canada (16% of total US trade); and represents the largest trading relationship of any 2 countries worldwide.
~~~ 2009 US Trade – Exports & Imports (in $USD) ~~~ [source: US Census]
- #1 – Canada – $429.64 Billion (~16% of total)
- #2 – China – $365.98 Billion
- #3 – Mexico – $305.53 Billion
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- As mentioned, Canada’s largest trading partner is the US (~66% of Canada’s total trade – proportionally much larger than the 16% Canadian share of total US trade).
~~~ 2008 Canada Trade – Exports & Imports (in $USD) ~~~ [source: Stats Canada]
- #1 – US – $482.16 Billion (~66% of total)
- #2 – China – $42.40 Billion
- #3 – Japan – $21.12 Billion

I’m in Canada but have rarely owned any .ca domains and for clients we broker/acquire domains for out of Canada, there is very little interest in .ca. Unlike a business is regional and limited in scope to Canada, it just makes no sense as most companies with significant funds for domain investment also do business or plan to do business in the US so a .ca extension would hurt or limit expansion.

Again…

80%+ Canadians speak english, its a non factor.
Small business and even large do not reject .ca because of international trade, they couldn’t even get or afford the .com if they wanted to, its a psycological issue.

Your trade numbers mean NOTHING unless you can show the bulk of that number coming from Canadian companies who reject .ca, wheres the proof?

@TV “Conditional” means that the bid was below the reserve and needs to be accepted by the seller.