John DemcoDomain Name Registrations Top 215 Million – At the end of June, 2011, there were more than 215 million domain name registrations worldwide, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign. This represents an annual growth of 16.9 million or 8.6%. The annual growth as reported three months ago was 15.3 million…
Garrett SaundryThe Sunrise B Registration Phase for .XXX allows trademark owners to protect their trademarks by blocking their names from being registered.This phase starts September 7th and runs until October 28th, 2011 (52 days). Webnames.ca is accredited with ICM Registry to accept Sunrise B applications and pre-registrations for General Availability for the new, sponsored top-level .XXX…
John DemcoMember Nominees Seek Shows Of Support For CIRA Election – CIRA has published the statements of Member Nominees in the forthcoming CIRA Board of Directors election. To be included on the ballot, a nominee must receive the support of at least 20 CIRA Members. Shows of Support may be registered until 6:00 pm Eastern Time…
Webnames.ca StaffBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for August 31st, 2011 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…
John DemcoICANN CEO To Step Down – ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom announced via Twitter that he will “wrap up” his service at ICANN in July, 2012. A press release was posted shortly thereafter on the ICANN website. Here are some thoughtful comments on what ICANN needs in a CEO, and on Beckstrom’s tenure: “ICANN fires its…
Webnames.ca StaffBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for August 24th, 2011 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…
Webnames.ca StaffBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for August 17th, 2011 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…
Garrett SaundryThe CIRA Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (CDRP), which has been in effect since 2002, is a forum which is intended to provide quick, out-of-court arbitrations at relatively low cost for .CA domain names registered in bad faith Last summer, CIRA (The Canadian Internet Registration Authority), held a public consultation on it’s CDRP to gather…
John DemcoRegistration Opens for CIRA Annual General Meeting – Registration is open for the CIRA Annual General Meeting, to be held on Tuesday, September 20 in Vancouver. Keynote speakers are Jonathan Zittrain, author of “The Future of the Internet and How To Stop It”, and Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr. Registration is free to all, and…
JuliannaBusinesses Encouraged to Protect Brands in New .XXX Top Level Domain Vancouver, August 05, 2011 – Webnames.ca is accredited with ICM Registry to accept Sunrise B applications and pre-registrations for General Availability for the new, sponsored top-level .XXX domain. Trademark owners and businesses that are not part of the adult industry should act to block…
Webnames.ca StaffBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for August 10th, 2011 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…
John DemcoCIRA Announces Nomination Committee’s Candidates for Election – CIRA’s Nomination Committee has announced candidates for the 2011 CIRA Board of Directors election. The candidates selected by the committee are: Eric Boehm, Kerry Brown, Gary Evans, Bill Gibson, Susan Mehinagic, Bill St. Arnaud, and François Vidal. The call for Member nominations commences on Tuesday, August 2.…
Webnames.ca StaffBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for August 3rd, 2011 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…
Garrett SaundryIntroducing Lower Domain Pricing Webnames.ca has rolled out significantly lower domain prices on multiple year registrations and renewals for retail customers. Our domain prices are now up to 75% lower on 10 year terms and 70% lower on 5 year terms for certain extensions like .CA. Next time you register or renew your domain with…
JuliannaNow Accepting Sunrise B Applications. General Pre-Registration Coming Soon. Eleven years after it was first proposed, the .XXX sTLD (sponsored Top Level Domain) is set to launch in September 2011. Webnames is participating in Sunrise B and General Registration to help facilitate the protection of trademarks, brands and primary domains in other extensions. What is…
