Results · 2026-07-15

# The Hunt: 2.51% Connect Rate on Wednesday's Drop

11,269 domains hit the TBR pool on Wednesday. 283 found homes. That's a 2.51% catch rate—lean, selective, and a reminder that even in the Canadian namespace, pickings are slim when the cream rises to the top.

WHC Online Solutions Inc. came to play. With 171 domains landed, they hauled in 60% of the session's total catches and showed a taste for dictionary words across every length bracket. puce.ca and tua.ca are the crown jewels—both brand-100 three- and four-letter stunners that most hunters dream about. They also grabbed tiling.ca, demarreur.ca, dollies.ca, percussions.ca, comakers.ca, and secretaries.ca, proving their reach extended well beyond the short-form gloss into solid mid-length naturals. That's the registrar version of a clean sweep.

BareMetal.com inc came second with 73 catches and showed particular flair for French and international plays. enchere.ca, enrico.ca, spores.ca, homelands.ca, decoratrice.ca, and principale.ca all landed in their net—a balanced mix of Francophone vocabulary and English words with real utility. The French-Canadian angle is worth noting; this wasn't accident.

Grape Inc. punched above their weight with just four catches, but skim.ca and fan.ca both rank in the elite tier. Two brand-100 four-letters from a smaller player is the kind of luck—or timing—that sticks with you. MyID.ca INC. and Register.ca Inc. each snagged respectable mid-tier prizes (psychedelic.ca, petra.ca, regulatory.ca, snatched.ca), while 8648255 CANADA LTD. O/A Dynadot LLC and PlanetHoster barely registered a pulse.

But the real story is what didn't get caught. leks.ca and shmo.ca—both brand-100 four-letter words—sat unclaimed. So did allotment.ca, guidebooks.ca, and the peculiar nigga.ca (a legitimate dictionary entry, but commercially radioactive). doers.ca, parky.ca, melusine.ca, rentra.ca, integrer.ca—all brand-81 quality, all missed. Either the hunter pool was distracted, or those domains landed in the second or third tier of their watchlists.

At 2.51%, this was a hunter's correction session: fewer domains released than some weeks, fewer caught, and a lower conversion rate. WHC Online Solutions Inc.'s dominance suggests concentration of resources works, but the gaps in the mid-tier catalog hint that even the keenest eyes can't be everywhere at once.