It's most likely because of the 4th-level domains that had to be used
prior to the CIRA changeover for companies that weren't even
provincially incorporated. For example, we have one township that has
the domain name of town.gibsons.bc.ca. If they were to upgrade their
domain, they could get gibsons.ca. If CDNNet's search engine could do
"fuzzy searches" still, you could check to see how many
something.toronto.on.ca domains are registered. I think the problem you
describe is in the same vein as if there was something.bc.ca and
something.on.ca -- neither provincial variant would be able to upgrade
to something.ca, and there's way too many something.toronto.on.ca
domains to allow just one to grab the 2nd-level version.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Heather Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 5:33 PM
Subject: Why can't I get a .ca domain for a town?
> Hello
>
> I would really appreciate some help with this one. I am trying to
> find out what I need to do to complete a registration request I
> received from a town in Saskatchewan. They wish to register a .ca
> domain name, but the request was denied by CIRA because it is a
> reserved name for that municipality. For example, toronto.ca is
> reserved so that anyone may not register it (but I assume that the
> City of Toronto sould be able to regsiter it) The town can provide
> whatever documentation is required to process the registration.
>
> My problem is that no one seems to know how to do this. I phoned
> CIRA....got the general support desk, who said he didn't know, but
> I should be able to find out at tucows.
>
> I wrote support at opensrs, but got this answer:
> "There is no procedure to register town names. It never occured to
> them that people would actually need it... I'm sure they'll get
> around to it someday..."
>
> So, I'm still scratching my head wondering is there SOMEONE who can
> tell me how to get this domain registered?
>
> Heather
>
>
