CIRA, the .ca domain name registry, has started offering free stock images. No, they aren’t branching out or trying to compete against the likes of BigStock or Getty, but what they are doing is offering some Canadian themed stock images for free. Our Canadian Stock Photo library is full of original, maple syrup-infused photography that… Continue reading Canadian Domain Registry Offers Free Canadian Stock Images
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CIRA Releases New Cheeky Ad Campaign
CIRA, the .ca (Canada) domain name registry has released a new advert for a television advertising campaign. The campaign is build around the hashtag #DontBeATraitor and I hope they do more of these. I love the concept of pushing a country code on the basis of national pride and loyalty so I really like this… Continue reading CIRA Releases New Cheeky Ad Campaign
ICANN DNS Symposium Heads to Montreal and Call for Proposals Open
ICANN is holding the DNS Symposium this year in Montreal, Canada. The event will be held at Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth on July 13th. Last year the event was colocated with the ICANN GDD Summit in Madrid, whereas this year it’s a standalone one day event with the theme “Attention, Domain Name System: Your 30-year… Continue reading ICANN DNS Symposium Heads to Montreal and Call for Proposals Open
The .Quebec Registry Celebrates One Year
Like other businesses, new TLD registries like to celebrate milestones. In the case of .quebec they are currently celebrating their 1st year in business, or as they like to put it, their first birthday: As .quebec is aimed at the French speaking community of Quebec they do most of their marketing and outreach in French,… Continue reading The .Quebec Registry Celebrates One Year
CIRA Signs Deal With DomainsBot to Offer Domain Suggestions
CIRA, the .ca domain registry, has announced that they will be offering Domainsbot’s domain name suggestion technology for .ca domain names. It’ll be interesting to see if other ccTLD registries will follow suit. Traditionally many of the country code operators have resisted granting access to their zone files which is a key requirement to enable… Continue reading CIRA Signs Deal With DomainsBot to Offer Domain Suggestions
A New Domain For Canada
CIRA’s CEO, Byron Holland, made an important announcement today aimed at all Canadian internet users. CIRA currently runs .ca, but feels that maybe it’s not quite Canadian enough… At present the .eh ccTLD is not assigned, though I’m not sure what the process would be for getting it assigned to Canada Meanwhile ICANN’s CEO has… Continue reading A New Domain For Canada
CIRA Goes Large on Marketing And PR For Launch of French Language IDN
CIRA, the registry operator for the Canadian ccTLD .ca, is raising its profile at the moment. They’ve taken over the frontpage of La Presse today, though it’s not viewable form outside Canada: Why are they doing this? Very simply it’s all related back to the launch of IDNs in .ca in order to support French… Continue reading CIRA Goes Large on Marketing And PR For Launch of French Language IDN
ICANN Toronto Gets New Logo
Not exactly “news”, but the ICANN Toronto meeting now has a nice logo
CIRA To Go Offline For 24 Hours
CIRA, the .ca registry, is taking their entire registry offline except for resolution services for 24 hours. While most domain registries conduct scheduled maintenance that would impact the SRS at some level and for several hours at a time I don’t think I’ve ever seen a relatively large domain registry plan a 24 hour outage… Continue reading CIRA To Go Offline For 24 Hours
Canadian Domain Registry Embraces Video
ccTLD registry managers have been “upping their game” quite a bit over the last couple of years. Whether this was inevitable or is due to the oncoming “threat” of new TLDs isn’t clear. In any case it’s a positive move. Some of the registries have embraced social media, unveiled slick websites and done some interesting… Continue reading Canadian Domain Registry Embraces Video