Whoahwhoahwoah!!! Dildo got renamed? Do you have a link? A Newfoundlander myself, I'd hate to see such a grand name changed!
Ken > -----Original Message----- > From: Jack Broughton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 3:57 PM > To: Ken Joy > Cc: Charles Daminato; Eric Paynter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: List of municipal restricted .ca names? > > > <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 > > > >
