Stating the obvious. Why doesn't CIRA just publish the list?
Swerve > From: "Ken Joy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:38:07 -0500 > To: "Charles Daminato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Eric Paynter" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: List of municipal restricted .ca names? > > CIRA uses: > > http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/english/cgndb.html > > You could conceiveably wildcard search the thing for a complete list, BUT, > you have to include at least two characters. If anyone goes through all the > letters, please email me the entire list :) > > Thanks, > > Ken > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Daminato >> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 9:33 AM >> To: Eric Paynter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: RE: List of municipal restricted .ca names? >> >> >> Eric... >> >> My sincere condolences, however: >> >>> 1. Why doesn't OpenSRS catch this when the order is placed? >> >> We don't have an authoritative list, we only find out when we try >> to process >> the domain at the registry, so we can't check it. >> >>> 2. Where is the list of municipal restricted .ca names so we can >>> do our own checking in the future? >> >> There IS list of all municipalities published by the Gov't of Canada but >> afaik it's not free (and actually quite expensive, subscription based) >> >> I *did* find something from the Government that has a list of names, but I >> don't know how accurate this is, and you'll likely have to get permission >> from the Gov't of Canada to take the information from this site. I'll see >> if there's anything we can do to get a list locally, and alter our lookups >> to suit. >> >> http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/scdt/businessmap/engdoc/10.9.9999.html >> >> The format for the URL is 10.X.9999.html where X is: >> >> 1 = Alberta, 2 = British Columbia, 3 = Manitoba, 4 = New Brunswick, 5 = >> Newfoundland, 6 = Northwest Territories, 7 = Nova Scotia, 8 = Nunavut, 9 = >> Ontario, 10 = Prince Edward Island, 11 = Quebec, 12 = Saskatchewan, 13 = >> Yukon >> >> But I don't know >> >> Charles Daminato >> OpenSRS Product Manager >> Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eric Paynter >>> Sent: March 6, 2002 8:49 PM >>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Subject: List of municipal restricted .ca names? >>> >>> >>> OK, CIRA has me pulling my hair out again... We have a domain in pending >>> queue because the customer's credit card information (address >>> etc.) was out >>> of date. After spending considerable time on the phone with this person >>> convincing him to go to the bank and update his info so that we >> can do an >>> address verification, waiting days for this to be done while >>> playing phone >>> tag with the customer, listening to him gripe at us about how he >>> believes he >>> really shouldn't be doing business on the Internet anyway because >>> all this >>> fraud prevention stuff is scaring him, finally getting >>> confirmation that the >>> info is updated and getting a green light from Visa that the info >>> matches... >>> Click "Register Now" in the RWI and it returns: "Domain name is >>> restricted >>> to municipal government." >>> >>> Now I get to formulate the email that says sorry, we are so >>> incompetant that >>> we didn't even realize ahead of time your domain name is not >>> available to a >>> Canadian Citizen which is exactly what you put on our order form so we >>> should have been able to catch it... Better luck next time! >>> >>> My questions: >>> >>> 1. Why doesn't OpenSRS catch this when the order is placed? >>> 2. Where is the list of municipal restricted .ca names so we can >>> do our own >>> checking in the future? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> -Eric P. >>> >>> -- >>> arctic bears - email and name services >>> 25 email addresses@yourdomain CA$11.95/month >>> DNS starting at CA$3.49/month - domains from CA$25.95/year >>> for details contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit >>> http://www.arcticbears.com >> >
