** ATTENTION -- IMPORTANT **
Apparently CIRA has been investigating customers. Out of the blue they ask
for proof that the registrant of a .CA domain name is actually a legal
entity.
If your customer registered themselves as a Corporation, they will have to
prove that the corporation is legally registered, the full legal name is
used, etc, etc until CIRA is satisfied or they risk losing the domain name.
I could consider this reasonable, if www.example.ca was being used by an
American Company, with U.S. information on it, and CIRA becomes aware, and
does an investigation.
But to arbitrarily select a person, regardless of their website content, and
demand proof that they are indeed Canadian and the company is legally
registered under the same exact name, is a hardship on the general consumer.
People paid for their .CA domain, they already agreed to the
terms/conditions, they have build their businesses around these names, they
are CANADIAN, and the business they are conducting is in CANADA. ---> but
now CIRA says "because there is a contractual agreement between CIRA and the
registrant (see the Registant Agreement), the full legal name of the
registrant must be used and be verifiable."
What other nonsense can CIRA drum up in order to scare people away from the
red-tape complexities of owning a .CA ?
If these keeps up, as a reseller, we'll need to raise our .CA registration
prices in order to accomodate the extra work involved in contacting
registrants and guiding them through the legal entity verification process
with CIRA.
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