If CIRA wont honor the NAFTA Fair Trade agreement allowing US companies equal
access too the Canadian Market (ie:Name Space) Maybe US companies will have to
block names.ca that confilct with American Companies. names.com .I have several
domains that are US trademarks we have the .com .net .mx and want to register
.ca . Maybe Quebec will gain their independence and CIRA will lose the .CA TLD
Alan DeRossett
Digital Starlight Communications Inc.
dnsadmin wrote:
> ** 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.
>
> Comments??
