Cybele Negris - President, CEO & Co-Founder of Webnames.ca Inc.

Metro Vancouver Municipalities Collaborate to Bring Investment During Olympics

As a board member of the Vancouver Economic Development Committee and a member of the 2010 taskforce, I was invited to attend the press conference yesterday announcing the Metro Vancouver Commerce (MVC) 2010 Host Program. This historic announcement marked the first time nine Metro municipalities have collaborated on a regional economic development initiative. Mayors Gregor…

Small Business BC Launches Small Business Start-Up Kit

Yesterday I attended the launch event for Small Business BC’s new Start-Up Kit. Produced by the Small Business BC team and partners the Start-Up Kit contains comprehensive business start-up information, is nicely designed with colourful bright photographs and extremely valuable content.  The kit is divided into five categories: Getting Started, Business Planning, Financing, Legal/Taxes and Resources.…

FWE 2009 E-Series Participants Announced

As Chair of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs e-series Program, I would like to congratulate the upcoming 2009 e-series class for being chosen. The FWE e-series Program is a unique set of entrepreneurial education sessions for women entrepreneurs of high growth, leveragable businesses. The mission of the e-series Program is to provide female entrepreneurs exposure…

ICANN Publishes 2008 Annual Report

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has published their 2008 Annual Report. The report details ICANN’s achievements in 2008. Highlights include their three 2008 major initiatives: 1.  Process for introducing new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to the Internet; 2.  Introduction of internationalized domain names (IDNs); and 3.  Extensive consultations on Improving Institutional…

Webnames.ca 2007 Year in Review

2007 was another amazing year at Webnames.ca. We had many milestones. We celebrated the 20th anniversary of the .CA domain extension which was founded by our own John Demco, we achieved three new service launches, grew our services, attained record breaking service standards achieved by our customer support department and still found time for much…