Archive for the "Domain Names" Category

The Big Reveal – ICANN Announces List of new gTLD applicants and applications

Posted by Karen Monteith on June 13th, 2012

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) posted the list of new gTLD applicants and applications today.  ICANN received a total of 1,930 new gTLD applications. Many companies such as Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Wal-Mart filed applications.  Among the Canadian applicants are Rogers (for .FIDO and .CHATR), Shaw Cablesystems (for Shaw) and [...]

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CIRA Announces .CA Registry Upgrade and 24 hour service outage

Posted by Karen Monteith on June 8th, 2012

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) announced that it will be performing a  system update to its .CA registry on June 12, 2012.   In order to complete the upgrade, there will be a 24 hour service outage from 9 a.m. (ET) on June 12 to 9:00 a.m. (ET) on June 13.  During the service outage, [...]

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Putting The Accent On .CA Domains

Posted by Neil Melliship on January 24th, 2012

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has released the results of its first consultation on its proposed implementation of .CA domains with French accent characters (known as the Latin Supplement -1 Unicode characters), such as é à ü and ç.   Under its initial implementation plan, CIRA proposed a sunrise period during which owners of .CA domain owners could register as [...]

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