Discuss CIRA Restricted Domains (1.Viewing)

Lol...that's hilarious. The whole town probably has a Cadillac given so few people live there. lol.

Does a municipality have the option to give up complete ownership of their restricted domain, if they want? I see it's still in their name... so they must be leasing it like you said:

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I'm surprised CIRA wouldn't give municipalities a nudge of some sort (every so often) to let them know it's theirs. Maybe [notify]Nafti[/notify] should get in touch with the town of Badger and become their domain hero.
 
Esdiel said:
Does a municipality have the option to give up complete ownership of their restricted domain, if they want?
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I guess it's an option, with CIRA's consent:

Municipal Domain Names cannot be transferred to any other party without CIRA’s prior, written consent;
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So this means the village of Cadillac is most certainly leasing it, considering they could have sold it if they wanted.
 
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Jurisprudence.ca, Jugement.ca and Jugements.ca are restricted domains, due to them being taken in the .qc.ca since 2000-2001.

They're all owned by the same organization and use the domain soquij.qc.ca as their main website, which they've also owned since year 2000. They in fact own many domains (30+) if you look into them, most of which (if not all) are French law-related words. I also came across some other restricted domains because of them, but only mentioned the more interesting ones.

Can't say I'm a fan of their current domain, but they seem to understand domains considering they own so many (for decades now).


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I think CIRA was doing some tech changes and I bought a couple names that were available, and then taken back. forget what they were but might have been California towns.
 
Esdiel said:
They're all owned by the same organization and use the domain soquij.qc.ca as their main website
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Yep, they are part of the ministry of justice in Quebec.
 
So as I understand it there is this rule about place names being restricted from registration (e.g. names of towns, cities etc. in Canada).

What if I register a name EXAMPLE.ca and then some town renames itself to EXAMPLE long after I have registered it, do they take it away?

Bob
 
Nope. I own a few places myself.

In fact myself and another member here knew of a new city that was being incorporated and we weren't sure what exactly the new name was going to be (because it was going to be voted on) so we tried to register and buy up several variations before the vote happened.
 
My friend told me how he was in a place called "Tatamagouche" in Nova Scotia the other day.

Tatamagouche.ca is restricted with no history of ever being registered, and the village has been using villageoftatamagouche.com since 2014. Ain't that a mouthful of a domain? That's 21 letters, and 21 chances of making a typo. Just spelling Tatamagouche alone is tricky enough.. lol

This is most certainly another example where they're entitled to the best domain possible and are completely unaware of it.
 
Esdiel said:
This is most certainly another example where they're entitled to the best domain possible and are completely unaware of it.
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Or is it that they want the .Com and not .CA?? Too bad they didn't want to use tatamagouche.com even after registering it. They also opted not to register villageoftatamagouche.ca.

There seems to be a real dislike for a .Ca by a village in Canada.
 
Eby said:
Or is it that they want the .Com and not .CA?? Too bad they didn't want to use tatamagouche.com even after registering it. They also opted not to register villageoftatamagouche.ca.

There seems to be a real dislike for a .Ca by a village in Canada.
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Well you're right that they seem to be leaning towards the .com since that's what their running with already, and they did previously own/use tatamagouche.com for a long time but seem to have let that drop sometime in 2010-2011.

So yep, definitely leaning towards the .com but I imagine they at least looked up tatamagouche.ca on a registrar like GoDaddy when they wanted to rebuild, saw it was "taken"/unavailable because it's restricted, and then moved on to another domain since they didn't know it was theirs to claim.

Would be crazy not to at least check for it (before choosing to go with their current domain), and even if they did check I would bet they'd have no idea it's reserved for them since there isn't any sort of indication it is... unless they knew to check the whois, read the info carefully, and then dig even further into it.
 
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Yes I understand all that, I am just trying to figure out why meta.bc.ca would have any value.

Technically if you look at it then any short subdomain like meta.dn.ca would have value.

The BC part of the domain makes it worthless to anyone outside of BC.

Again I was just trying to figure out why Esdiel thought the domain had value in case I missed something. I was not trying to instigate anything, it was a sincere question.
 
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That is assuming they are the only one using it?
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Excellent point.

I had already checked most, but I just double checked all of them (using whois) to be certain and it seems to be the case.
 
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