Tag Archives: .ca

Fri 21st September 2012
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CA Technologies sells Platinum.com domain name for $250,000 - Domain name appears to have been sold to pet food company. It looks like CA (aka Computer Associates) has sold one of its prime domain names, Platinum.com. Moniker has confirmed that it brokered the transaction and the sales price was $250,000. The domain name was featured in Moniker’s DOMAINfest and Spring Auctions with a reserve range of $500,000 to $1,000,000. The whois record for the domain name just changed to show that the domain now belongs to the German ... read more ...
Wed 13th October 2010
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.Ca Tops 1.5 Million Domains and Gets EPP - CIRA transitions registry system and hits a milestone. Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has had a big week. First, it transitioned its entire registry system to EPP. That’s welcome news for registrars carrying .ca, and it alleviates a lot of burdens on CIRA: With the new system and policies, CIRA is effectively able to remove itself from many day-to-day transactions. Most transactions will be handled solely by CIRA certified Registrars. To ensure ... read more ...
Mon 30th August 2010
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Muscovitch: Canadian ccTLD Registry Rules in Need of an Overhaul - by Zak Muscovitch [In this guest article, Zak Muscovitch argues that the .ca domain name needs to be liberalized. Muscovitch is a domain attorney who is running for a seat on CIRA’s 2010 Board of Directors. -Andrew] While many countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and India, have opened up their ccTLD registries to foreigners, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (“CIRA”) has been stuck with the same closed-door policy since it enacted ... read more ...
Tue 29th July 2008
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GoDaddy Now Offers .Ca Domain Names - Registrar adds Canadian country code domains to offerings. The world’s largest registrar now offers .ca domain names through its newly formed Canadian registrar (but purchased directly on GoDaddy.com). .Ca is the country code domain name for Canada. Registration fees are $12.99 per year. The .ca domain name is one of the more popular country code domain names in terms of adoption by its country. You must be a resident of Canada or meet other presence requirements ... read more ...
Mon 5th May 2008
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Canada Leading a Way with Whois Changes - .Ca is getting a whois overhaul. Perhaps the rest of the domain world can use it as a framework. There have been a number of suggested changes to ICANN’s whois framework. But Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is making changes to its .ca country code on its own. Canada-based domain registrar Tucows (AMEX: TCX) is reporting that CIRA will make sweeping changes to its whois policies on June 10: -Whois registrant data will be made private by default. ... read more ...