Comments on: jobs.ca goes for $600K

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:05:57 +0000

Interesting post, Joel. This domain has been for sale for a few years and my congratulations to Ogopogo for stepping up to the plate. Our own experience is that content seems to matter more than a domain name. The most visited site in Canada has a long, rather challenging name and it hasn’t seemed to affect their traffic. We look forward to welcoming them to the market.

By: Martin Snyder

Martin Snyder — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:35:51 +0000

I knew this would interest Jason Davis- first post ;-)

By: eric shannon

eric shannon — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:55:58 +0000

rob did tell me he bought jobs.ca months ago… i think they just took their time getting the pr out. but i never saw it in print anywhere so that makes it news, lol.

By: Joel Cheesman

Joel Cheesman — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:50:12 +0000

Old news? It went across the wires yesterday: http://tinyurl.com/5zjp94

By: John

John — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:47:58 +0000

and doing a little sleuthing: Mark Huttram left (or?) Monster in Canada in 2004….again, really old news….

By: John

John — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:06:58 +0000

This is really old news…I mean REALLY old news….in fact I was headhunted by Ogopogo to go and do this very job…and who is Mark Huttram? I used to work at Monster in 2005 in Canada and never heard of Mark Huttram…

By: Paul Pickthorne

Paul Pickthorne — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:54:50 +0000

I can’t see spending over half a million dollars on a domain name as a good start for “battling free”. The number of tech incompetent web users who don’t know the difference between the address bar and search box must be falling surely? And the buyer has no previous experience in the business except hiring a monster guy? I think they have a tough journey ahead of them.

Paul Pickthorne
Chief Free Officer
Smuz.com - 100% Free Job Board

By: Israel Vasquez

Israel Vasquez — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:13:02 +0000

to think i sold trabajos.ca (jobs in spanish) for a couple bucks … albeit its the spanish version .. but the spanish population is constantly increasing in CA

By: eric shannon

eric shannon — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:32:53 +0000

I believe that a significant chunk of value in jobs.ca comes from the way Google is treating exact match domains and subdomains. Look at the search results these days and you’ll see jobs.com subdomains all over them.

Rob Montgomery created trafficclub which was purchased and shut down, but the interesting thing is that it was better designed than any other domain parking service I’ve looked at. so you can be sure that Rob will do something very interesting with jobs.ca

By: axel

axel — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:58:13 +0000

Did you remember when jobs.com.au was sold for a reported $500k http://www.specht.com.au/michael/2007/05/04/more-on-the-sale-of-jobscomau/