Recent content by rlm

completely unrelated but, @MapleDots - nice work on "cleaning" things up quickly, lol. No chance for the dust to settle, haha.

I think its never been more important for any business serving Canadian customers to clearly show they are Canadian, so .CA is more than "just fine" - its nearly mandatory. Even if you're lucky enough to score the .com equivalent, the .ca should be forward facing for Canadian customers. Of...

Yes, a routine is important when you have a big portfolio. 1. Every couple months, consolidate all your domains to one registrar. I don't care if you just bought it and have 10 months left. You bought it for the long-haul, so just pony up the extra fee and do it now and then you won't have to...

Its simple, you always consolidate your acquisitions to a single registrar after the 60 days are up, and you stay on top of it. Then you only have one place to deal with renewals.

Yeah, I was going to say there's nothing stopping any registrar from getting involved at whatever level they're comfortable with, and expanding as justified economically. No different than WHC (and their sibername predecessor) or Baremetal have done over many years. Others have come and gone...

talk to CIRA... that's ridiculous. They are failing their responsibility as a registrar.

And thanks to @Legalnonconforming for catching that and bringing it to everyone's attention!

And a very sincere thank you for doing something about it!

Is that even true? I have .us domains as old as 2002 where that was clearly not the case. From my experience, it was only government sites that used the .{state_abbr}.us structure.

@CIRA ?

@CIRA - would be great to get your perspective on this. If this is true, it seems like it should be a breach of some sort of terms of service between CIRA and a registrar.

Wholesale is $10.50. The price is good compared to most, but it's definitely not wholesale, and definitely not the cheapest. It would take very generous CC fees and FX fees to get from $10.50 to $12.59 - or if GST/HST were hidden in the price. And I'd be claiming back the GST/HST anyways, so...

They're infinitely better than subdomains.

yes

On the surface, its the kind of thing where you might say, what's the big deal, the original seller gets exactly what he asked for, and the middle man is arbitraging a potentially underpriced asset, and paying for that privilege. Win-Win. Right? However, there are two potential issues, one...