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[Ace of Blades]

Hello to everyone. I have been looking around this site for a couple of days and am very impressed with what I've seen. I noticed in a couple of threads that people have hinted at CIRA may drop the Canadian requirement for registering a .ca. Is there a time frame for this to happen or is this just a rumour at this time. Thanks.

[Rick Latona]

Originally Posted by Ace of Blades

Hello to everyone. I have been looking around this site for a couple of days and am very impressed with what I've seen. I noticed in a couple of threads that people have hinted at CIRA may drop the Canadian requirement for registering a .ca. Is there a time frame for this to happen or is this just a rumour at this time. Thanks.

I spoke with someone from CIRA at ICANN in Mexico and they told me they are working on making things easier for the aftermarket.

They never hinted they were going to drop the Canadian requirement.

[Ace of Blades]

Good morning Rick. Thanks for creating this .ca forum and for responding to my inquiry. I'll just continue to look for good .ca's and hope that sometime in the future CIRA will make it easier for the aftermarket.

[Jason Lavigne]

I work very closely with CIRA as I work for several .CA registrars and I know many CIRA staff members personally and I can tell you that CIRA is very serious about keeping the .CA space purely Canadian. They have never hinted at dropping the presence requirement and i don't think this will happen.

[domain]

It's a double edged sword, you'd have a larger market and more interest in .ca domains (good for existing portfolio owners), but you'd have more competition for regs and in TBR (not good for existing .ca domainers). I don't think a lot of us would have the portfolios we have now if .ca had been wide open from the start. I think most .ca domainers are against opening it up, but I could be wrong.

[Jason Lavigne]

The other thing to consider is that the strength behind .CA and why it is widely used in Canada is that visitors going to a .CA site know they are dealing with a Canadian business or entity. By opening up the registry this would no longer be the case and the use of .CA would not be as strong as it currently is. From my discussions with CIRA this is their main reason for not removing the presence requirements.

[Larry]

Originally Posted by Jason Lavigne

..the strength behind .CA and why it is widely used in Canada is that visitors going to a .CA site know they are dealing with a Canadian business or entity. By opening up the registry this would no longer be the case and the use of .CA would not be as strong as it currently is. From my discussions with CIRA this is their main reason for not removing the presence requirements.

This reasoning is made clear at CIRA's new website, see 'why .CA' etc. It makes sense to me.

[Jackie]

Originally Posted by Jason Lavigne

The other thing to consider is that the strength behind .CA and why it is widely used in Canada is that visitors going to a .CA site know they are dealing with a Canadian business or entity. By opening up the registry this would no longer be the case and the use of .CA would not be as strong as it currently is. From my discussions with CIRA this is their main reason for not removing the presence requirements.

I am Canadian and I too feel that .CA owes much of its success to the presence requirements and the stringent enforcement of this rule that CIRA (the registry) has been doing. I have heard people's .ca domains actually getting taken away by them as they were unable to prove that they had a connection to Canada. The enforcement part is important too, as many "restricted" ccTLDs don't do enforcement and what ends up happening is a huge disregard for the rules stifling growth in the TLD.