CIRAs rules clearly overrule NAFTA, which is Fair Trade in goods no?
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager
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On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Alan DeRossett wrote:
> 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??
>
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