If you could changes some things at CIRA.... (1.Viewing)

If you could change some things at CIRA...

What would you change?

Adam

The evil side of me would say to remove the residency requirements to own a .ca :lol:

Part of me is also curious to see if it would make any difference to the aftermarket.

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The evil side of me would say to remove the residency requirements to own a .ca :lol:

Part of me is also curious to see if it would make any difference to the aftermarket.

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I don't think there would be huge demand outside of Canada. Sure you might get the odd sale, the odd california company, the odd domain hack, and it would ease the path for US companies to sell to Canadians with .CA domain names. They can already do it, they just need a Canadian trademark or some sort of presence here.

But I think those opportunities are generally outweighed by the exclusivity of .CA to Canadians, as I think it is valuable that Canadian's can feel more comfortable shopping with a .CA rather than any .something else. Its one of the only differentiating factors from the gazillion other tlds now.

While I _am_ curious about how the market would react, you can't put that genie back into the bottle once you let it out. So I'd probably vote to keeping the presence requirements as is.

However, there are things that I would like to see change:

1. TRANSPARENCY. They do (or don't do) a lot of shit with no explanation other than its none-yo-business.

2. ENFORCEMENT. I think they may enforce, or not enforce, or turn a blind eye, or bend the rules when convenient. And it all can happen so easily because, yes you guessed, a lack of transparency.