John DemcoNew gTLD Applications Announced – ICANN has announced the names of the 1930 new top-level domain applications, together with other information including the public portions of the applications themselves. A 60-day comment period has begun, and a number of comments and informal objections have already been posted. Analyses and breakdowns of the applications are appearing;…
Neil LimA Snapshot of The gTLD Expansion On January 12, 2012 ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned names and Numbers) started accepting applications for generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and closed its application period on May 30, 2012. Presently, there are 22 gTLDs including .com, .org, and .net. Out of the several applications, some of the biggest…
Neil LimBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for June 20th has lots of great names, so pre-book your favourite .CA domains early. We publish a “top picks” list each week after CIRA publishes its latest batch of expiring dot-CA domains. CIRA adds more domains to the TBR…
Webnames.ca StaffOn June 12, 2012, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) will be performing system maintenance to further improve our .CA registry system. In order to successfully complete the maintenance there will be a 24 hour service outage from 9:00 a.m. EST on June 12 to 9:00 a.m. EST on June 13 (6:00 a.m. PST on…
Neil LimBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for June 13th has lots of great names, so pre-book your favourite .CA domains early. We publish a “top picks” list each week after CIRA publishes its latest batch of expiring dot-CA domains. CIRA adds more domains to the TBR…
John DemcoTop-Level Domain Application System Closes; More Than 1900 Submitted – On May 30, when ICANN closed the system for new gTLD applications, just over 1900 applications had been submitted. The announcement of applied-for domain names, known as “Reveal Day”, is scheduled for June 13, and a list of other events has been published. ICANN will…
Neil LimBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for June 6th has lots of great names, so pre-book your favourite .CA domains early. We publish a “top picks” list each week after CIRA publishes its latest batch of expiring dot-CA domains. CIRA adds more domains to the TBR…
Neil LimCIRA hosted the second annual .CA Impact Awards and officially announced the winners at the Mesh Conference in Toronto on Tuesday. The .CA Impact Awards find people and organizations that use their .CA sites to make a difference in their community. Organizations can enter into any four categories: Public Sector and Not-for-Profit, eLearning, Small Business,…
Neil LimBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for May 30th has lots of great names, so pre-book your favourite .CA domains early. We publish a “top picks” list each week after CIRA publishes its latest batch of expiring dot-CA domains. CIRA adds more domains to the TBR…
John DemcoICANN To Reopen New TLD Application System – ICANN has announced that the Top-Level Domain Application System (TAS) will reopen on Tuesday, May 22 and close on Wednesday, May 30. The system was taken offline on April 12 due to a technical problem. More than 2000 top-level domain applications have been submitted to date. Picks…
Webnames.ca StaffBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for May 23rd has lots of great names, so pre-book your favourite .CA domains early. We publish a “top picks” list each week after CIRA publishes its latest batch of expiring dot-CA domains. CIRA adds more domains to the TBR…
Webnames.ca StaffAll of us at Webnames are continuing to celebrate the 25th anniversary of .CA this month and we made a video just for the occasion! Learn about where .CA began and where it’s going in this great video that we shot a couple of weeks ago with Webnames.ca Co-Founder, John Demco. All week Webnames.ca will…
Webnames.ca StaffMonday May 14th marks the 25th anniversary of the dot-CA domain name for Canada. On this date twenty five years ago the management of the dot-CA country code domain name was officially delegated by Jon Postel, operator of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), to Canadian Internet pioneer and Webnames.ca co-founder John Demco. The most recognizable…
Webnames.ca StaffBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for May 16th has lots of great names, so pre-book your favourite .CA domains early. We publish a “top picks” list each week after CIRA publishes its latest batch of expiring dot-CA domains. CIRA adds more domains to the TBR…
John DemcoICANN Update: More Than 2000 TLD Applications, $350 Million in Fees – ICANN has announced that the TLD Application System held 2091 top-level domain applications, either submitted or in progress, when the system was taken offline on April 12. As of May 4, ICANN has received approximately USD $350 million in new gTLD application fees.…
