JuliannaSuzanne Siemens and Madeleine Shaw are the founders and innovators behind Lunapads, a social mission driven business based in our hometown of Vancouver. They have been making and refining their lines of menstrual products, Lunapads and LunaUndies, since their first prototypes in 1993, believing that using reusable menstrual products are an empowering way to honor…
Jordan RiegerThe rude awakening You’ve finally settled on the perfect domain name for your blog or small business. You’ve registered it with a trusted Canadian registrar like Webnames.ca. You’ve barely begun to setup email and web hosting, yet the very next day, you wake up to an inbox full of spam – emails hawking web design,…
Webnames.ca StaffWith the Canada Day long weekend over, we just want to remind you that Canada 150 event is still going strong … until July 31st, in fact! There is no better time this year to register a new .CA domain, get those domain transfers done, or purchase your SSL certificate than this July. No promotion…
JuliannaStarting a business can be tough—not only do you want to choose the perfect domain name, but also cover all your bases for finding a great registrar, protecting your online brand and marketing your business. To help you out, we’ve compiled a list of 150 tips, tactics and tools for starting a business in .CA…
Shawn RandhawaSo you have an idea for a business, and you know it’s a winner. But you need the perfect domain: something professional, memorable, succinct and effective. Your domain is your web address online, and an essential part of your online presence—you want it to further your marketing efforts, help you reach your audience and reflect…
Judith TraceyAcross the country, Canadians are getting together to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday. As we approach a milestone anniversary for our country, there are many reasons we are proud to be Canadian—our nature, culture, businesses and accepting (if overly polite) national identity. Another reason to be proud? .CA, Canada’s very own ccTLD, turns 30 years old…
Webnames.ca Staff“I’m going to the store.” “Which store did you buy that at?” “I love that store.” Just think about how many times a day you say the word store, think about a store or actually go to the store? As a retailer, shouldn’t your domain name convey that you are in fact a store? There…
Lisa Wills2017 is a fantastic year to be celebrating milestones – both culturally and digitally. Canada is turning 150 years old this year and the dot-CA domain extension recently turned 30. These anniversaries remind us that we are a big country with a small population and we rely on nation building entities to keep us together.…
Jordan RiegerThe title of this blog references a common pattern in learning, from a programming perspective. For example, when you learned basic geometry, you were probably taught some variation of this statement: Every square is a rectangle, but not every rectangle is a square. At first it might seem to be a deliberate brain teaser, the…
JuliannaAs many of you know, Webnames has a special history with .CA . Our co-founder, John Demco, conceived of the .CA country code for Canada, created the original registry at the University of British Columbia and voluntarily maintained it for 13 years before transitioning it to CIRA’s custodianship and governance. During that time John and…
Lisa WillsAs we all become increasingly addicted to online streaming services like Netflix and Amazon’s Prime, it’s a good time to review the Internet Service Providers that provide us with the ability to binge watch 20 episodes of The Good Wife in an evening, or (heaven forbid!) download the two most recent seasons of Game of…
JuliannaIt’s easy to think “all the good names have been taken” and to be honest, most of them have, at least in the major extensions like .COM, .ORG, .BIZ and .NET. But now you can take a second kick at the domain name can and get an incredible domain on the Webnames.ca Domain Aftermarket. What…
JuliannaMay is finally here! After a long winter, it’s time to dust off the cobwebs and get to work on new projects, be they personal or professional. With that in mind, we have some great domain extensions on sale this month, including: .WORK – Pick up a .WORK domain for only $1.99 (regularly $9.99 US)…
JuliannaTomorrow we celebrate Earth Day. For environmentally conscious brands, products, organizations and communities there are now a variety of domain names and specialized namespaces to choose from that can be used communicate earth-friendly programs, products, goals and values. You might be surprised at the available options. .ECO is short, memorable and has a clear use…
Judith TraceyAfter a lot of hard work, we are proud to announce that last month we officially became Climate Smart certified. This was achieved through several training sessions, the creation of an exhaustive inventory of our greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and of a GHG reduction plan. For those of you considering doing the certification – and…
