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CIRA Signs Deal With DomainsBot to Offer Domain Suggestions

March 12, 2014 by Michele Neylon

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 DomainsBot and similar … [Read more...] about CIRA Signs Deal With DomainsBot to Offer Domain Suggestions

A New Domain For Canada

April 1, 2013 by Michele Neylon

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 found a cure for herpes You'd never … [Read more...] about A New Domain For Canada

CIRA Goes Large on Marketing And PR For Launch of French Language IDN

January 17, 2013 by Michele Neylon

.ca take over the front of La Presse

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 language characters. It is now possible for French .CA … [Read more...] about CIRA Goes Large on Marketing And PR For Launch of French Language IDN

CIRA To Go Offline For 24 Hours

June 5, 2012 by Michele Neylon

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 before. You can read details of the outage on … [Read more...] about CIRA To Go Offline For 24 Hours

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