It’s an all European match and it’s still up in the air as to who will come out the victor. There are two contenders from the UK, two from the Netherlands and one from Germany. If it wasn’t for the “first come first served” policy that is in place, I think the book makers would…
Webnames.ca StaffOne member of our web team, Dave, is enamoured with his new iPhone. In between swanning about showing us his iPhone lightsaber and his iPhone lighter, Dave found the time to create the new iPhone enabled Webnames.ca website. Add it as a bookmark and you get the beautiful Webnames icon on your home screen. Thanks Dave!
Webnames.ca StaffEvery week CIRA releases their list of .ca domain names that will be expiring a week later. At Webnames.ca we encourage the prebooking of expiring domain names. Snatch them up before someone else does! Or should you? You see captainkirk.ca is coming available next week. You rub your hands with glee. “Hazzah” you think, “that…
Webnames.ca Staff.TEL Sunrise is set to launch tomorrow morning at 7:00am PST. The Sunrise period provides trademark holders an opportunity to protect their trademarks. A few notes about Sunrise: Trademark application date must be prior to May 30, 2008. Trademark registration date must be prior to December 3, 2008. Applications are considered on a world-wide basis, independently…
Webnames.ca StaffFor companies who are in the emerging “alternative energy” market or working in environmental sustainability, domain names with the word green in them are like gold. There are even websites devoted to reselling green-themed domain names. It would appear that all the good ones are gone, but are they really? Every week, expiring dot-CA domain…
Telnic the brains behind the .Tel domain name, is allowing end users to populate the NAPTR, TXT and LOC records of the DNS. The LOC record is particularly interesting. It was proposed in 1996 as an experimental protocol to get a visual track back of packets and ultimately lead you to the physical location of…
Webnames.ca StaffTelnic, the Registry who brings you the .tel domain, launched their Developer Community yesterday. Telnic has really tried to give developers an all inclusive area with forums, wiki and ticketing system to track bugs and make feature requests. The early whitepapers that are published offer a tantalizing technical peek under the hood of .tel They…
Webnames.ca StaffI recently moved to Vancouver from Victoria. During this transition I had the pleasure of having my only form of communication die on me. I was left at the ferry terminal with all my belongings and a cell phone that wouldn’t even turn on. Oh joy! After contacting my cell phone provider and waiting “patiently”…
This week our CEO, Stephen Smith, is attending the IPIC (Intellectual Property Institute of Canada) 82nd annual general meeting in Toronto. The meeting runs for two days (October 16-17) and covers topics specific to Patents, Trademarks, Copyright and Industrial Designs. Steve will be attending various sessions, as well as meeting with and presenting to the…
Webnames.ca StaffUsing .tel is like having your own personal switchboard operator. “Miss Havisham – connect me with a camel place in Cairo.” What if you are actually in Cairo (and your partner has frowned on you bringing Miss Havisham) – you enter camels.tel into your iPhone. You choose Cairo from the list of cities that appear. …
Webnames.ca StaffBy now, you’ve heard about .TEL and how it will revolutionize the way we connect with each other by using the existing DNS architecture to store phone numbers, email addresses, map links, and dozens of other types of contact information. As you may suspect, .TEL is more than a traditional top-level domain; it is more…
Webnames.ca StaffDear 411, Our affair has lasted for years and we’ve had some really good times. Remember when you helped me cook a turkey? Or that time I called from Germany looking for the Montreal office of Air Canada because I was big baby and wanted to come home early? Or that time in the 80’s…
Webnames.ca StaffCIRA, the Canadian Internet Registry Authority, introduced domain privacy for individual registrants on June 10, 2008. Domain privacy is the removal of all contact details, including the registrant name, in order that the ownership of the domain name remains completely private. On a standard WHOIS search, contact information for the registrant is displayed. This information…
Webnames.ca Staff.Asia launched general registration yesterday, March 26, 2008. .Asia domains are now available on a first-come, first-serve basis. The DotAsia registry has announced a contest to generate interest in the auctions that are beginning in early April and continuing through June. The public will be able to guess which domains receive the highest bids. Contest…
Webnames.ca StaffNorthern Voice 2008, Canada’s personal blogging and social media conference has come and gone, and for me it was a wonderful experience. This was Webnames,ca’s second time sponsoring the event and three members of our Customer Support group attended. Over the two days of the conference I met a number of great people, as well…
