Webnames.ca StaffWhat makes a good registrar? Excellent customer service? Trusted Customer Support? Great prices? Webnames.ca was flattered when Easy DNS wrote a post in their blog with their top picks for the best registrars, and they mentioned Webnames.ca! The conversation started when Lifehacker.com put out a call to their readers asking them who they think the…
Webnames.ca StaffYou can play an important role in growing Canada’s Internet domain and shaping our Internet and our future. The Campaign Forum for the 2012 CIRA Board of Directors Election began yesterday at noon. The Forum provides candidates, .CA Members and the general public an opportunity to discuss viewpoints, concerns and positions related to how candidates…
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 StaffAs sponsor of the BCIC-New Ventures BC Competition, Webnames.ca would like to congratulate the top-ten finalists in the 2012 competition! Webnames.ca has sponsored this competition for a number of years. As a member of the local technology community, we feel it’s very important to support the innovation coming out of newer start-ups. This year’s finalists…
Webnames.ca StaffWant to win a year of free Web Hosting from Webnames.ca? We are giving away two Elite Web Hosting Plans in August and September! Free Web Hosting for a Year might not sound that exciting to some, but our Elite Web Hosting Plan (Valued at almost $360 for the year) is great for setting up…
Neil LimCIRA Nomination Committee Candidates Selected The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is the organization that manages Canada’s .CA domain name registry. They also develop policies that support Canada’s Internet community. CIRA’s Nomination Committee has selected eight Candidates from a strong group of applicants who have a broad mix of experience and qualifications to move forward…
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…
Cybele Negris.TEL owners with Google Analytics accounts can measure click and call activity on their .TEL domains. Google Analytics can provide detailed information on who is visiting your .TEL and what they do while on your .TEL pages. This information can be used to improve your promotion methods and modify your content based on which links…
Garrett SaundryThe Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is in the midst of a public consultation http://idnconsultation.ca on the use of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) in the .CA domain. Specifically, CIRA is proposing to support the use of French characters in .CA domain names. After making an initial proposal and conducting an extensive consultation in 2011, CIRA…
Webnames.ca StaffThe 9th Annual Small Business BC Successful You Awards are taking place in Vancouver on February 28th, 2012 at the Pan Pacific Hotel. The Successful You Awards recognizes and celebrates the important contributions of BC’s entrepreneurs to their local communities and the wider global economy. The awards contest is free to enter and open to…
Cybele NegrisToday, January 12, 2012 marks the day ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) starts accepting applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). This process has been heavily debated amongst the internet community at large as well as within the ICANN board but was approved by ICANN in 2011 at its meeting in…
Steve SmithThe way we are consuming copyrighted material is changing. We are not buying CD’s, DVD’s, or books as much as we used to and Peer to Peer (P2P) networks have made it very easy to distribute and share media. Some of this media is in the public domain (such as old movies and books where…
Webnames.ca StaffWebnames.ca is excited to announce the addition of several new country code Top Level Domains (ccTLD) to our current offering. Our customers can now register .CH, .CO.UK, .DE, .EU, .FR, .ME, .MX, .NL and .IN to help solidify their online identity. “Webnames.ca has been receiving great feedback from our customers about having more choices in…
Garrett SaundryAfter a particularly frustrating day this September, Carrie Gelson, a teacher at Seymour Elementary, an inner city school in Vancouver, sat down and wrote an open letter to the people of Vancouver. In it, she voiced her frustration with the difficulties of trying to teach children who come to school hungry, cold and emotionally stressed. …
Webnames.ca StaffWebnames.ca is excited to be sponsoring and participating in the Mom Inc. Movement trade show this weekend. The event takes place on Sunday, November 6th at the Delta Hotel and Conference Centre in Burnaby. The Mom Inc. Movement is geared towards Moms! moms who are looking for additional business opportunities to complement their current employment…
