canadiandomainer.ca

Hey everyone, sorry for the lack of posting. Haven’t been feeling very creative lately.

Haven’t done one of these in a while so today’s post will be a showcase post about yet another Canadian company using and promoting a generic .ca.

The company is Hickory Dickory Decks and they specialize in custom built decks. I’ve seen they’re signage often in the Ottawa area and have heard their recent radio campaign but I was quite surprised that they are not just a local company, they have a presence in many cities across Canada and an office in Upstate New York.

I am really glad they have developed this domain, but they are also hosting the exact same site on their long tail .com (hickorydickorydecks.com). What they should be doing is forwarding one to the other (and for the purposes of this blog, I would like to see them forward the .com to the .ca)

Also, they should be using this domain in their email addresses. By quickly going through their contact page, I saw that the main contact email is a gmail address. And the regional offices are using other free email services like gmail, rogers, yahoo and other random ISP addresses.

So all in all I would say that this company made the right decision to develop decks.ca and to use it in their advertising campaigns, but they still have some work to do to take full advantage of this .ca category killer.

I hope you enjoyed this showcase post and I will try to post more often on a variety of topics involving the .ca

Thanks for reading

Ok, so it isn’t a .ca but I used the services of contentminisites.com for one of my .ca’s so that’s close enough.

I first heard of this site while browsing the forums at DNF and I was pretty impressed with what they were producing. I was also very curious too as I have never a) Created a mini-site or b) Used the services of a designer. And since the price wasn’t too bad, I decided I would buy 1 credit and use it for one of my domains that I had developed half-assed.

The registration and purchase was quick and the submission process was very easy too. All you have to do is indicate the domain, 5 keywords, your adnetwork, your publisher ID and pick a template.

Once you submit your site, you can keep track of it’s status.

And I must say, I was very impressed by the quick turnaround time because in less than 2 hours (1 hour 27 minutes to be exact), I received notification that my site files were ready to download.

Extracting and uploading the files was simple and my site was up an running in a matter of minutes after receiving the files.

I haven’t had a chance to play around with the backend just yet, but if I find some neat stuff, I’ll be sure to post about it.

Have a look at sommeliers.ca and let me know what you think

Also, have a look a contentminisites.com to see if their products are right for you.

Have a good night

***Please note: I was not compensated for this post but the link above is an affiliate link***

It’s been a while since I’ve posted so I figured I’d showcase a great generic .ca that I came across recently.

This name is owned and used by a popular doctor in Ottawa who specializes in vasectomies.

He could have easily gone with a regular domain like drXXXX.ca; XXXXclinic.ca or a whole host of other non-generic domains. But the fact that he went with a category killing generic like vasectomy.ca shows that some end-users actually “get it” and understand why generics are so great.

I don’t subscribe to any domain tool sites, nor do I have any deep knowledge of the numbers the site gets, but a quick search of “vasectomy” in google.ca and we see that vasectomy.ca is the second result (behind only the Wikipedia result). Not too shabby

Anyway, just posting to let you guys know that I’m still alive.

Oh, and don’t ask me why I was searching for vasectomy information