Domain Names

Proposed dot-CA Rule Changes: Implications for Domain Registrations and Trademarks in Canada

Canada has prided itself on its multiculturalism, bilingualism and willingness to not just tolerate, but accept the cultures, conventions and customs of various other backgrounds. In following with this tradition, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), the organization that governs …

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Domain Convergence 2009 Toronto Conference Day 2

Day two of the Domain Convergence Conference was much less structured than the first day. The sessions were more casual and often became open forum discussions. There were only two sessions that were handled by an assigned presenter and delivered …

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Domain Convergence 2009 Toronto Conference Day 1

The annual Domain Convergence conference was held in Toronto on 13th and 14th of August 2009.  The main objective of this event was to bring together domain name owners, investors, entrepreneurs and developers throughout Canada in order to share ideas …

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Toronto's First Conference dedicated to Domain Names

This year we have seen a lot more conferences being hosted in Canada on specific topics concerning the web, many thus far about Internet Marketing.  Needless to say, we were excited to hear about a new conference coming up on …

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Dot-CA To Protect Personal Information

Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), the organization responsible for dot-ca domain name operations, is changing its policy on disclosure of personal information of domain name registrants, to better comply with PIPEDA.…

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Should Quebec have its own domain extension?

Last Friday, in an article entitled “Dot-Quebec?“, The Globe & Mail reported that a Québécois party member started a petition to convince ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, to create a separate domain name extension …

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Canada's One Million Domain Names

On April 15, 2008, Canada’s dot-ca (.ca) domain name registration hit the one million mark, placing this Canadian-specific extension as the seventeenth largest Internet domain name registry worldwide.…

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Dot-Com or Dot-CA ?

I frequency get asked by website owners which domain extension they should use, so I thought it was worth an article on the subject. There is no question that dot-com is the most common domain extension, however, should Canadian companies …

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Domain Renewals by Mail

Many competitive domain name registrars are using greedy marketing tactics to trick you into transferring your domain name. More domain registrars are resorting to the practice of sending notices by postal mail that look confusingly like an official Canadian renewal …

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