Does CIRA Still Offer a "Free Service" to Complainants Listing All Your Domains? (1.Viewing)

DomainRecap · Nov 6, 2023

I was doing some CDRP research and found the following quote on a law company site:

Recent .CA domain name decision illustrates useful tool for demonstrating bad faith

"Notably, CIRA provides a service whereby complainants, on request and free of charge, can obtain a comprehensive list of all .CA domains which are owned by the registrant of a domain name that may become the subject of a CDRP proceeding. In the present case, the Complainant used this service to identify 4,664 .CA domain names owned by Nameshield Inc. or its sole director."

Needless to say I was taken aback that the CIRA would offer a "free service" that is so blatantly anti-customer and anti-privacy, and I am wondering if this dubious practice is still in operation?

@richard.schreier

MapleDots · Nov 6, 2023

There is a service...

https://viewdns.info/reversewhois/

I only have to punch in a domain you own and it will show me all the domains owned by the same email address registered to the owner of that domain.

Probably similar to how the cira service would work

I cannot see any .ca domains listed in the service above but do see other ccTLD's like .in

DomainRecap · Nov 6, 2023

MapleDots said:
I only have to punch in a domain you own and it will show me all the domains owned by the same email address registered to the owner of that domain.

Probably similar to how the cira service would work

I cannot see any .ca domains listed in the service above but do see other ccTLD's like .in

But I'm not talking about a service like that, as you could write one yourself with public WHOIS records. The legal firm article positioned it clearly as a "free service" specifically for UDRP complainants and not something you or I would ever have access to.

.CAs are also different and come with built-in root privacy for non-corporations and according to the article this "free service" would supersede that privacy.

rlm · Nov 6, 2023