Cybele NegrisYou can play an important role in growing Canada’s Internet domain and shaping our Internet and our future. The Campaign Forum for the 2011 Board of Directors Election begins today. The forum provides Candidates, .CA Members, and the general public an opportunity to discuss viewpoints, concerns, and positions related to how Candidates will serve Canada’s…
Webnames.ca StaffBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for September 14th, 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 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…
Garrett SaundryWebnames.ca is excited to announce the expansion of our current GeoTrust SSL certificate offerings with the addition of several certificates from the leading brands in internet security, GeoTrust and VeriSign. Choose from our wide range of SSL Certificates, including EV SSL with the green address bar. Security your visitors can trust If you collect personal…
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…
Starting August 2 to August 15, 2011, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority’s (CIRA) is accepting applications for interested individuals across Canada to fill an open position on its Board of Directors. Professional Canadians with Board experience and/or an interest in technology and the Internet are encouraged to apply. Expertise in one of the following areas…
Bill C-28, The Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act (FISA) was passed by Canadian Parliament and received Royal Assent December 15, 2010. As Canada’s first anti-spam legislation, it empowers authorities to aggressively fine spammers (individuals could be fined up to $1 million per violation and companies $10 million per violation). The legislation has major implications…
JuliannaIn two weeks time the harmonized sales tax (HST) will replace the existing provincial sales taxes (PST) and the federal goods and services tax (GST) in the province of British Columbia. As you know, Webnames.ca is located in Vancouver; this means that BC’s adoption of the HST will impact you, our customers. What Does the…
Cybele NegrisNow that Canada has shown the world what we are capable of and we have all experienced the Olympics together and feeling that overwhelming sense of Canadian pride, here’s a contest for you to showcase your “online Canadian-ness.” No, you won’t win gold but the prizes are pretty good: 1. Grand prize wins a MacBook…
