John DemcoICANN Meeting in Beijing Completed – The 46th ICANN meeting was held in Beijing last week. One of the main themes was the New gTLD Program, and progress was made on a number of aspects of this initiative, including: Agreement was reached in principle on a new Registrar Accreditation Agreement. Progress was made on a…
Webnames.ca StaffWebnames.ca is now accepting pre-registrations for upcoming new generic top level domain names (like .web, .blog, .hotel, .finance etc.) and we have been getting a lot of great feedback from our customers! These new domain extensions are a huge opportunity for businesses and individuals. In order to showcase the benefits of these new extensions, we…
Webnames.ca StaffWebnames.ca, Financial Post, and SOHO Business Group are please to invite you to attend the Marketing Event of the Year, on April 26th at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Downtown Toronto. This event features experts and entrepreneurs in marketing, media, and online social engagement to help your business to succeed. The landscape of how…
Webnames.ca StaffBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for April 17th 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 StaffWebnames.ca launched a web design service with small business in mind last year called FastTrack. FastTrack web design provides a professional website, built quickly and affordably. This program has been a huge success and we wanted to highlight some of our FastTrack clients. This month, we take a look at beansandbabes.ca We asked Jordan, founder…
Webnames.ca StaffWebnames.ca has launched an advertising campaign in Business in Vancouver that will be running from September 2012 until August 2013. When we were considering a campaign with BIV, we started to think about who we are and what makes Webnames, well, Webnames! Immediately we thought about our customers! We have built our business and our…
Webnames.ca StaffWebnames.ca is always striving for excellence and excellence starts with excellent people! We are delighted to introduce one of our new interns, Angel! Angel has been interning with Webnames.ca since the beginning of February with three other interns; Justin, Graham, and Arti. We sat down with Angel for a Q & A session and to…
Webnames.ca StaffWebnames.ca is now accepting pre-registrations for upcoming new generic Top Level Domain Names (gTLDs) like .web, .hotel, .blog, .home, .tech etc., and we’re getting a lot of great feedback from our customers! This week, we are featuring the .HOTEL gTLD! Not only will specific hotels be able to represent the various offerings of their brand,…
Webnames.ca StaffBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for April 3rd 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 Meets Next Week in Beijing – ICANN is meeting on April 7-11 in Beijing, China, with some pre-meeting events taking place as early as Thursday, April 4. One of the main topics will be the New gTLD program. Remote participation will be available for many of the sessions. ICANN Releases Second Set of Evaluation…
Webnames.ca StaffHere are some tips from Webnames.ca to keep our clients aware of key tax information.Webnames.ca would like to remind everyone that British Columbia will be switching back from HST to the GST/PST tax system. While this transition may cause some confusion regarding, Webnames.ca would like to help inform clients of the up-coming changes. We would…
Webnames.ca StaffBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for April 3rd 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 StaffWebnames.ca is now accepting pre-registrations for upcoming new generic Top Level Domain Names (like .web, .hotel, .blog, .home, .tech etc.) and we’re getting a lot of great feedback from our customers! These new extensions are a huge opportunity for businesses and individuals. In order to showcase the benefits of these new extensions, we plan to…
Webnames.ca StaffOn March 26, 2013, Webnames.ca implemented a Trademark Clearinghouse validation page for all Trademark holders. This is in anticipation of the release of new generic top level domains (gTLDs). What is the Trademark Clearinghouse? The Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) is a database of trademarks established by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in…
John DemcoICANN Releases Initial Evaluation Results for New gTLD Applications – ICANN has released Initial Evaluation results for the first set of New gTLD applications. Results for applications with priority numbers 1 through 30 have been posted, all of which are Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). Of these 30 applications, 27 have passed Initial Evaluation and three…
