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  1. davidm

    CIRA 2025 Board Elections

    Keith, thank you for stepping forward as a candidate. I have a few questions about your approach to board governance: 1. Strategic Focus: What's your view on CIRA's expansion into areas beyond core .CA registry operations? Should member fees primarily fund registry services, or do you support...
  2. davidm

    CIRA 2025 Board Elections

    What's your specific goal to achieve if you become a director of CIRA? How do you feel about providing objective oversight of CIRA's activities and spending? Will you report issues to the members, especially when the board ratifies or approves of spending on or hiring personnel for non-core...
  3. davidm

    CIRA 2025 Board Elections

    Thanks for this. It's disappointing that the meeting chair decided to cut Byron off before he had the opportunity to answer the hard questions about the $28 million in salaries and IT expenses in 2025.
  4. davidm

    CIRA 2025 Board Elections

    Thank you for the clarifications, Matthew. A few follow-up questions as you seek member support: 1. Financial Breakdown: You mention that operational and staff expense increases are "tied directly to diversified services" like Canadian Shield and XDR. Can you provide a breakdown of how much of...
  5. davidm

    CIRA 2025 Board Elections

    I don't think that this NFL owner is interested in cost cutting at CIRA. Matthew Gamble has already been a CIRA director for long enough and I don't see any positive impacts from his tenures between November 2018 and Oct 2021 and again from September 2022 to the present. I only hear from him...
  6. davidm

    CIRA Financials

    Without detailed disclosures, we really don't know what is going on. Enhanced Disclosure Requirements Line-item expense breakdowns for all categories exceeding $500K Cost allocation between .CA operations and ancillary services Multi-year trend analysis with variance explanations Per-domain...
  7. davidm

    CIRA Financials

    It is concerning that CIRA's expenses are growing out of control. CIRA Expense Analysis - Why Are .CA Registrants Footing the Bill for Mission Creep? Fellow CIRA members, After reviewing CIRA's FY25 financial statements, I'm deeply concerned about expense growth that far exceeds our core...
  8. davidm

    CIRA AGM 2025 - Unofficial Draft Amendments

    Why is it so difficult to get access to AGM agenda and proposed resolutions? Why aren't the proposals provided ahead of time so that we can consider and discuss them? I couldn't find any details on the CIRA website until I received my registration confirmation email, and even then I had to...
  9. davidm

    CIRA 2025 Board Elections

    I am disappointed that my question was not addressed during the Q&A session today, especially given the increasing domain name renewal fees and escalating operational costs at CIRA. I seek a direct response from each CIRA board candidate: Q. Do you commit to minimizing discretionary spending...
  10. davidm

    FOR SALE $799 USD BIN clearance on each of these 90 1 and 2-word domains

    If you want any of these domains, e-transfer $1100 to david@businessreg.ca and then email me your contact info or call me at 416-239-1361 Domains for Sale ($1100 CAD each): fibertape.ca bakeit.ca blackmini.ca bluedress.ca carbusters.ca kevas.ca lawtech.ca logiclock.ca luvv.ca muhamed.ca...
  11. davidm

    SOLD.ca $100,000+ .CA CLUB

    You're right. I don't know why GoDaddy values some random 3L .ca domains so high. Even ones with an "x" or a "z." It's not like many businesses use them in Canada. For example: wxk .ca at $5656 (registered in 33 TLDs) czv .ca at $5189 (registered in 54 TLDs) nxv .ca at $4336 (registered in 40...
  12. davidm

    SOLD.ca $100,000+ .CA CLUB

    What is an ultra premium LLL .ca? Is there a list? I have a few 3Ls.
  13. davidm

    SOLD.ca $100,000+ .CA CLUB

    What kind of .ca domains do you price over $100K? nouns? verbs? 1-word category EMDs? 3L? CVCV? Multiple tm owners?
  14. davidm

    CDRP Guess-Canada.ca - Decision = Transfer

    It's unclear whether the registrant was reselling authentic Guess branded clothing or one of their affiliates masquerading as an eCommerce website because only the home page is shown in Archive's Wayback Machine. The Respondent didn't file any response. Affiliate networks usually provide...
  15. davidm

    CIRA 2024 Board Elections

    Who should we vote for and why? Which candidates will ensure that CIRA reduces discretionary spending and avoids scope creep?
  16. davidm

    CIRA 2024 Board Elections

    CIRA needs to support DN .ca and encourage member collaboration on it. It would be great if CIRA could provide funding to make this a more robust platform.
  17. davidm

    OFFERS Dexo.ca

    Will consider investor offers at $3000 USD
  18. davidm

    OFFERS KingBet.ca

    Registered in 76 TLDs with some popular in various geos. Since online gaming is legal in Ontario now, this is potentially a very high value domain name. There are no matching trademarks nor trade names in Canada. Make an offer. I may accept your mid to high 4 figure offer, if you're a domain...
  19. davidm

    Alo Yoga Sues To Get Alo.com After Losing UDRP

    The court case filing might be a threat to shake the tree to buy the domain for less than 7 figures. There's no current trademark infringement. This case was filed by David Weslow and his team of domain lawyers. They're very savvy about domain name law and file many cases every year. The...
  20. davidm

    Alo Yoga Sues To Get Alo.com After Losing UDRP

    Do you know who the current owner is? Can they sustain litigation?
  21. davidm

    Alo Yoga Sues To Get Alo.com After Losing UDRP

    Screenshots in the complaint seem to indicate that PPC ads appear on ALO .com, but I just see "The site is under construction" in Korean and " This name is not for sale " on the landing page. Did the lawyers lie in their complaint or is something else going on here?
  22. davidm

    CIRA Member survey: Help shape our strategic direction

    I don't support any annual price increases. CIRA must cut their budgets, streamline operations, and stop giving out grants.
  23. davidm

    dn.ca / market / smartbrands

    First names on clearance $99 each Ronja.ca
  24. davidm

    TBR Drop - Apr 24, 2024

    I dropped protestors.ca - no traffic and no inquiries.
  25. davidm

    dn.ca / market / smartbrands

    Selling 10 cvcv .ca domain names for sale in a package for $3000. My picks. If you're interested, I can send you an email with 3 different packages of 10 domains.
  26. davidm

    dn.ca / market / smartbrands

    surveil.ca $2500
  27. davidm

    CIRA election 2023

    @FM My biggest concern with the direction CIRA is that they are ignoring the domain registrants and treating the reg and renewal fees like a cash cow for special projects, travel, and unnecessary memberships. CIRA is running a huge deficit and spending money unnecessarily. The platform that...
  28. davidm

    WANTED Storkpack.ca

    The trademark is owned by a micro business in Montreal. I don't know who owns the domain name.
  29. davidm

    WANTED Storkpack.ca

    Wow! I don't think that there's any Canadian buyer at this price point, let alone a markup for me.
  30. davidm

    WANTED Storkpack.ca

    Hey, I will pay $250 CAD for storkpack.ca Yes, there's an exact match trademark registration for it.
  31. davidm

    EXPIRING Exons.ca $20 expiring

    Make the $20 offer for this expiring domain. No matching trademarks but 100s of business names start with exon* 23 matches for exon on Nuans.
  32. davidm

    EXPIRING Orer.ca expiring $20

    Make the $20 offer on the landing page so that I get your information.
  33. davidm

    How does Danny Hunter win all of the good .ca domains in TBR?

    This registrar is a Canadian federal corporation: MyID.ca INC. CD-7504799 2010-03-22 Active The director of MyID.ca INC. is Fayez Alameddine 270-140 Yonge Street Toronto ON M5C 1X6 Canada If it's the same person, he tried to become an Ontario physician: Alameddine, Fayez...
  34. davidm

    TBR Drop - Jan 11, 2023

    At least I was able to get printz.ca today. I can turn it into a print on demand store and then sell it on Empire Flippers. Obviously, the correctly spelled version would be better once the business is setup.
  35. davidm

    How does Danny Hunter win all of the good .ca domains in TBR?

    How does Danny Hunter win all of the good .ca domains on backorder. Is he a domain investor or does he own the MyID registrar? Today, he got: bio.ca boxing.ca canoe.ca Carlson.ca and more!
  36. davidm

    Friction Selling at GoDaddy

    Buyers of premium .ca domain names have always faced friction when buying these great domain names. There's friction through the GoDaddy registration path: Currency conversion to CAD meant that prices always seemed nonsensical because they were priced by premium domain sellers in USD inside...
  37. davidm

    CDRP Surfshark.ca - Decision = Dismissed

    Join us on Jan 3, 2023, at 6 pm, to discuss the surfshark.ca CDRP decision on the Clubhouse App. Zak Muscovitch was on the 3-member panel that decided the surfshark case. The domain name owner represented himself. He won on a technicality: SURF SHARK wasn't a registered trademark at the time...
  38. davidm

    SOLD.ca Realty.ca - Sold $500,000 USD

    Oxley works through buyer agents who can't afford the Lamborghinis that they broker deals on.
  39. davidm

    EXPIRING Izode.ca $50

    izode.ca is available for $50 - clearance sale IZODE: No matching Canadian businesses named izode And no matching trademarks either. Registry Expiry Date: 2022-12-02 One active business in the UK is called IZODE Limited Found 115 companies matching IZOD on OpenCorporates including 4 trade...
  40. davidm

    Isic.ca ordered transferred

    Yes, The Domain Name resolved to a pay-per-click website depicting links referring to the ISIC card as well as other products directed to students, according to the opinion, but that's no surprise. PPC ads usually re-target visitors based on the websites listed in their browser history, and if...
  41. davidm

    Isic.ca ordered transferred

    The design trademark asserted in the complaint CIPO Registration number TMA414189 is owned by ISIC ASSOCIATION in Denmark. The Canadian Federation of Students-Services doesn't own any trademarks resembling the word ISIC. So how does a licensee have rights in a trademark? Certainly the Canadian...
  42. davidm

    CDRP Sedationadentalgroup.ca - Decision = Transfer

    There's a typo in the domain name that I carried over from copying and pasting David Lipkus' summary. The actual domain transferred was sedationdentalgroup.ca - there's no 'a' between sedation and dental group. So it was actually their main domain name. There was a transfer of ownership in the...
  43. davidm

    CDRP Sedationadentalgroup.ca - Decision = Transfer

    #484 - Dania Alkhani Dentistry Professional Corp. v. Hazim Alkhani (Domain Transferred - One Panelist - PDF)
  44. davidm

    CDRP Equiax.ca - Decision = Transfer

    #486 - Equifax Inc. and Equifax Canada Co. v. Mike Leigh (Domain Transferred - One Panelist - PDF)
  45. davidm

    Isic.ca ordered transferred

    #485 - Canadian Federation of Students-Services v. Nameshield Inc. (Domain Transferred - One Panelist - PDF)
  46. davidm

    TBR Drop - Nov 16, 2022

    Does anyone have the TBR list for Nov 16? I forgot to download it in time.
  47. davidm

    Is sexpositive generic or clearly descriptive? Domain transferred

    An internet search indicates that sex-positive is a generic description: https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Sex-positive_movement Sex-positive movement - Wikipedia The sex-positive movement is a social and philosophical movement that seeks to change cultural attitudes and norms around sexuality...
  48. davidm

    Is sexpositive generic or clearly descriptive? Domain transferred

    I might not know what sexpositive means, but it sounds clearly descriptive of a certain type of behaviour. Anyway, 3 panelists ordered the transfer of the matching .ca domain name in what seems to be a questionable decision at first glance. #482 - Mehdi Naimi / Sexpositive Shop v. Sheila...
  49. davidm

    YCD.ca Transferred To Complainant

    File a superior court action or an application for declaration of ownership rights in their province. It requires a good trademark litigation firm.
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