Well, I'm getting no protests from my clients at all. Most
understand they've had it free for a long time and welcome the
opportunity to get the .ca domains with few restrictions. The
cost of the domain is a small price to pay. Certainly cheaper than
having to federally incorporate a business in order to get a domain
name as one client did.
I am targeting the clients who have the .com addresses and letting
them know that they have a good chance of getting the domain name
they want as a .ca now. Many chose to go with a .com originally
because of the strict rules, but because their first choices were
taken as a .com, had to go with a less desirable name. Now they
can get a good name with just the .ca
Those who already have a .ca do not want to lose valuable ground
made with search engines and don't want to reprint stationary, so
they are keeping the .ca (usually .on.ca etc) Then they also
upgrade to the .ca I'm suggesting they have both to allow them
time to let their stationary supplies dwindle and get established
with search engines again as well as give visitors a chance to
bookmark the new site.
They are not flocking away from the .ca domains...in fact most are
taking the opportunity to advance order a good number of additional
domain names.
As for how many of those 90,000 get pre-registered...I imagine a
large amount may be dropped because they have been upgraded to the
.ca domain from something like domain.city.on.ca I also expect
that a lot of domains would be dropped because of non-use by the
owners. Previously, I don't believe there was anything in place
to remove old, unwanted domains unless the owner took the
initiative to remove them. Hey, it was free, so who cares if the
domain you are not using is still there.
Well, good luck to all on their registrations.
Regards,
Heather
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Subject: RE: Pre-Registrations
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> We have been informed by CIRA that less than 10% of existing .ca
> registrations have "pre-registered". This means that there is
still a
> significant amount of business in "pre-registrations" to be won.
Moreover, it means a lot of .ca holders are protesting, and
refusing to
renew their domain names.
Many of our customers are electing to register a .COM and drop .CA
altogether. I've been working to resetup their website and email
with .com
and removing the .CA equivalent.
Out of 90,000 domains, it will be interesting how many of them get
pre-registered.
