Comments on: Just something I noticed about Canadian Startups

By: AhmedF

AhmedF — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:02:27 +0000

Sure they can.

But the top CA startups are not.

By: chris

chris — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:02:15 +0000

namer: so you guys don

By: IMHO

IMHO — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:11:07 +0000

That index is retarded.

By: AhmedF

AhmedF — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:16:13 +0000

Yes what me an American? :)

My site is there - iBegin.com. We originally were always going to be Canadian only, and for the first 15 months we were (Toronto and Ottawa). Yet we still opted for a .com

By: Frank Michlick

Frank Michlick — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:19:29 +0000

Namer, I am actually located in the Greater Toronto Area and Ahmed lived here as well.

Sure you can still complete globally, even when using a ccTLD as your main domain name. But the trend in most countries (apart from the US where .COM is more popular than the ccTLD) seems to be more and more towards having the ccTLD of where your customers reside. I cannot imagine a .CA getting popular in German for example without owning the .DE, unless you’re in tourism.

Branding is one thing, the other thing is what the users are used to.

By: namer

namer — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:54:19 +0000

ok never mind, i see you are us based,
happy 4th

By: namer

namer — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:45:21 +0000

so you guys don’t believe that companies powered by .ca can compete globally when coupled with a great name? why so little faith? sedo launched from sedo.de , they eventually acquired the .com, but we are talking about starting out.

By: AhmedF

AhmedF — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:39:52 +0000

Right Frank - but ComScore’s numbers are purely for canadian audience, and just one with .ca cracked that.

By: Frank Michlick

Frank Michlick — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:16:38 +0000

A lot of Canadian startups target the US (or a global market) more so than Canada itself, thus .COM seems a smarter choice of a TLD for those.

By: Brian Benko

Brian Benko — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:45:12 +0000

Adams budget for quality content finally made it into the six figures. I am so tired of reading those long winded stories by Miguel. He writes as though Professor Strong made it a requirement for his midterm paper to be 30 pages long. Now Ahmed… “Ahmed the Man” Short and sweet. To the point. I don’t need to get another cup of orange juice or print it out and take it to the thrown to finish. What a pleasure it is not to have to scroll down. Plus I learned a ton! Man I thought .CA represented California. I was under the impression Kevin cut a deal with Schwarzenegger to get the rights to dot ca. For this valuable clarification, Ahmed I would like to say “thank you” You too Adam, “thank you” for generating enough revenue to pull in pulitzer level writers such as Ahmed. This is how every fourth of july should be kicked off.