At 10:49 PM 9/17/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I was on the Cira site last night, reading the rules for eligibility.
>Cdn citizens, companies with Cdn presence, foreign companies holding a US
>trademark (may register that trademark domain name), etc...
>
>Who verifies this? Do we blindly accept registrations and if there is a
>dispute they lose it? How does one prove to us that they are a Cdn citizen
>or that they hold a Cdn trademark for such and such?
Perhaps once CIRA gets going and all this money starts to accumulate, they
will have a "task force" to deal with this sort of thing.
They could:
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a) Call the Administrative Contact for the domain -- to see if a valid
phone number, etc, exists in Canada and ask the owner a few questions
b) Visit their website (of the domain) to see how it is being used
c) etc, etc, etc..
Right now, I guess it is more on the honour system. Once CIRA starts
getting complaints, or they have enough cash to spend on policing the
system -- you'll probably see people who "lied" about being Canadian lose
their domain in the long run anyway.
In my opinion, the policing stage will be more involved later...
