CIRA has announced that they do not support new registrations for
municipalities yet. They will announce a process in the next couple weeks.
Apologies for the "CIRA-rif-ic-ness" of this answer. :)
sA
At 08:33 PM 11/14/00 -0500, Heather Peel wrote:
>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
>
Scott Allan
Director OpenSRS
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