Alan,
Well, Britney does not own that domain name - a Canadian named Craig
Bushert does. Many ccTLDs have local presence requirements, .uk being one
for example. If you really want to register a .ca domain name, find a way
to comply with their presence requirements (which are quite extensive):
http://www.cira.ca/official-doc/47.RPPG_00006EN.txt (doc and PDF available
as well)
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, AlanDeRossett wrote:
> Hi Swerve,
> As I mentioned earlier .CA is also part of California culture prior to Canada
> coming into being as the first federal union in the British Empire on July 1, 1867.
> California was a sovereign Nation until 1850 when the US took control our state
> abbreviation is still .CA
> I question CIRA's credibility when they fail to adhere to their own rules i.e.:
> BritneySpears.CA (Britney is not a Canadian) If a .CA name is registered like
> Burbank.CA it clearly is not promoting Canadian Culture. Lots of .CA names were
> registered by Canadians for Americans with friends put down as contact. If I
> register a .CA name with real information then CIRA rejects it. CIRA is controlled
> by Canada which
> approved the service provider clause under NAFTA. Nic.MX has an open registration
> policy for .MX as does the Nic.US with the current locality issues. As far as
> Business being an extension to Culture I agree and I see no reason to start dividing
> up the internet along Nationalism issues. Letting me register few Ca.domains for
> Native Californian's certainly wont hurt any Canadian's.
>
> Alan DeRossett
> Digital Starlight Communications Inc.
>
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hi Alan, Aug. 26. 2001
> >
> > As far as i understand, and i haven't read the NAFTA fine print, there are
> > aspects of Canadian Life that are not subject to the "Free Trade" of Nafta.
> > One of those areas is certain aspects of culture.
> > >From my perspective, the .ca namespace is part of Canadian culture and
> > should remain so.
> >
> > I see business as a subset of culture, and not the other way around.
> > Cultural expression and/or identity can exist without business transactions.
> > Business cannot exist without culture.
> >
> > Imo, it is up to Canadians to determine in a democratic fashion how we
> > choose to utilize this namespace. This should not be a NAFTA issue.
> >
> > Perhaps Californians should lobby Icann to set up .CAL
> > or .California etc.
> > This would give Californians a unique identity in the namespace, and
> > Canadians as well.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Swerve
> >
> > > From: AlanDeRossett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Organization: Digital Starlight Communications Inc.
> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 09:19:16 -0700
> > > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Subject: Re: CIRA investigates your customers - watch out
> > >
> > > Eric thanks for spoting my typo,
> > > I would be happy to help you register a yourcompany.locality.state.us name and
> > > support your right to do so. The U.S. Department of Commerce has the
> > > http://www.NIC.US hosted with Verisign and must abide by the NAFTA "Free"
> > > Trade
> > > agreement as well. I also want to
> > > push the U.S. Department of Commerce into opening up the name.US space without
> > > all
> > > the locality stuff. Many Californians want a .CA name and I suspect many
> > > Canadians
> > > would register .US names as well. Piror to the current CIRA system of
> > > investigation California Companies could just hire a Candaian ISP to register
> > > it
> > > for them.
> > >
> > > Alan DeRossett
> > > Digital Starlight Communications Inc.
> > >
> > > Eric Paynter wrote:
> > >
> > >> Alan DeRossett writes:
> > >>
> > >>> 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
> > >>
> > >> LMAO! And I suppose that .us should be opened up to Canadians as well...
> > >>
> > >> -Eric P.
> > >>
> > >> p.s. it's "Free Trade" not "Fair Trade"... North American Free Trade
> > >> Agreement.
> > >>
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> > >
>
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