<shakes his head> How can I get one of these cushy jobs in pseudo government like CIRA, make all the policies on a whim with total impunity, when they all blow up just make more policies and not really have to answer to anyone? Sounds like a pretty good gig!
The municipal exclusions are a bit of a sore point because many of them belong to places in Canada that I doubt would ever even consider a domain name in this lifetime. On top of that why can't the exclusion just be on the provincial level and not affect the CCTLD? It's a good thing that Dildo, Nova Scotia (or was it Newfoundland?) renamed itself not too long ago or the person who owns Dildo.ca wouldn't be able to get it! :) (The domain name that is...) While normal registrations at the provincial level being setup to force first right of refusal to people registering top level .CA domains has a case to be argued (not sure I agree but still) telling people they can never register a TLD because a sub-domain may want to be registered in the unknown future seems a little unfair. I don't believe there's any mechanism for these little burghs to approve a domain being registered at the top level. And in other CIRA ineptness news I think we should run a contest to see how many CIRA election announcement emails people on this list get. Can these people not do some sort of listserv? I mean getting an exact duplicate email for every single domain I have registered at the .CA level is a ridiculous waste of bandwidth and mailserver time. Of course... when you're pseudo governmental what's money and efficiency besides a totally foreign concept? :) Jack Broughton CanTech Solutions Ken Joy wrote: > 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 > >
