Mark.ca - Uh Oh Spaghettio - someone is going to be in trouble (1.Viewing)

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How?
 
rlm said:
Easy. They registered them before they were phased out. As long as you renew them, they're good forever.
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Really? I thought a) the .CA could only be released once all of the provincial domains were expired and conversely b) you can't own the .CA unless all the provincial domains are dropped.

I don't think there could be a scenario like c) when one entity owns all the previously-registered provincial domains, then the .CA is theirs, as that would bring into question the ability to individually sell off the provincial ones, something that CIRA does not want.
 
DomainRecap said:
Really? I thought a) the .CA could only be released once all of the provincial domains were expired and conversely b) you can't own the .CA unless all the provincial domains are dropped.

I don't think there could be a scenario like c) when one entity owns all the previously-registered provincial domains, then the .CA is theirs, as that would bring into question the ability to individually sell off the provincial ones, something that CIRA does not want.
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Your logic is correct assuming that more than one provincial was registered prior to the .ca. However, you're forgetting the situation where there is no provincial and the owner of the .ca later registered some or all of the provincials prior to CIRA shutting down provincials.

So when CIRA announced the end date for provincials, I registered all the provincials for some of my domains prior to that deadline, as did other people with theirs. So CIRA's provincials deadline actually triggered a spike in provincial registrations.
 
I don't think domains like mark.on.ca bring any additional value to mark.ca

If your business is in Canada, has any ties to the word Mark, then Mark.ca says it all, you can do almost anything from there.

on.mark.ca or mark.ca/on

Why would I want to confuse it with mark.on.ca? Totally different domain and not worth the bother in my opinion.
 
rlm said:
Your logic is correct assuming that more than one provincial was registered prior to the .ca. However, you're forgetting the situation where there is no provincial and the owner of the .ca later registered some or all of the provincials prior to CIRA shutting down provincials.
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I was thinking along those lines, but are the provincial registrations linked to the .CA? Otherwise, you could sell a bunch of provincial domains separately and still hold the primary .CA, which I don't think the CIRA would appreciate.
 
DomainRecap said:
I was thinking along those lines, but are the provincial registrations linked to the .CA? Otherwise, you could sell a bunch of provincial domains separately and still hold the primary .CA, which I don't think the CIRA would appreciate.
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Yes, you can sell them individually, you don't have to be the sole owner of all of them.
 
MapleDots said:
I don't think domains like mark.on.ca bring any additional value to mark.ca

If your business is in Canada, has any ties to the word Mark, then Mark.ca says it all, you can do almost anything from there.

on.mark.ca or mark.ca/on

Why would I want to confuse it with mark.on.ca? Totally different domain and not worth the bother in my opinion.
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Agreed. I think it only works for domains that have some advantage to being geographical. Mark isn't one of them.

I have them for some domains like AutoInsurance.ca. Auto insurance is different from province to province, so provincials might make some sense in that case.
 
rlm said:
Yes, you can sell them individually, you don't have to be the sole owner of all of them.
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That's absolutely nuts, but I guess that's what happens when the CIRA allows a loophole like this exist, before finally closing it.
 
i don’t know why you think that is nuts. Provincials were always able to be owned by different individuals. Would you like to be told that your property can’t be sold to anyone?
 
Has anyone here ever registered some or all the provincials for one or more .ca domains they have, and benefited from it? ie: sold some of them?
 
rlm said:
i don’t know why you think that is nuts. Provincials were always able to be owned by different individuals. Would you like to be told that your property can’t be sold to anyone?
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But that was back before there was only one .CA, and that loophole of "own the .CA and register provincials" likely wasn't around for very long. Today, no one can register provincials and if provincials still exist, no one can register the .CA unless they own and trade in the very last provincial. It's an either-or scenario.

So selling provincial sub-domains, when you also sell the primary .CA to someone else, is an illogical relic from a bygone slice in time.
 
DomainRecap said:
But that was back before there was only one .CA, and that loophole of "own the .CA and register provincials" likely wasn't around for very long. Today, no one can register provincials and if provincials still exist, no one can register the .CA unless they own and trade in the very last provincial. It's an either-or scenario.

So selling provincial sub-domains, when you also sell the primary .CA to someone else, is an illogical relic from a bygone slice in time.
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I believe it wasn't until late 2010 when they stopped allowing you to reg new provincials, so you could reg them for 10 years. And again, I don't think it would be fair to say you can no longer use (or sell) your property.

I keep some for own my potential usage, not so much for reselling as I don't think that's likely, but more for geographic or seo reasons.
 
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