Time for CIRA to Get Rid of Canadian Presence Requirements? (1.Viewing)

Is it time for CIRA to get rid of Canadian presence requirements. Would this step make .ca increase in value. I know a lot of people in California would love to register a .ca domain name.

Get involved, run for the board, initiate change

That's the only way it will change

Am I for it?

For me as a domainer - absolutely

Would it be good for .ca businesses - probably not

So you have to look at the core value of .ca and quite honestly it's not directed at us, it is to assure you're doing business with a Canadian entity and watering that down would water down the extension. It would make domainers and CIRA a pile of money but ultimately what good would it be visiting a .ca website doing commerce in USD instead of CAD?

For domainers it would represent a short-term gain with new buyers jumping in initially, then it would be a lot of long-term pain as the bloom would be off the rose pretty quick and .CA would become meaningless to Canadian business. It would soon get lost with all the other generic ccTLDs from the various banana republics who are looking for some quick money and don't care about the future.

Remember, Canada is an actual country with a business sector that needs their own ccTLD, not some island with a few thousand people on it (like .IO) or less than 1000 (.cc) who really don't give a crap about the future of their ccTLD. One some of these tiny island ccTLDs, a vote would be a show of hands.

Transforming .CA into a generic ccTLD would be a huge long-term mistake for our country and with the history .CA already has and the CIRA continues to develop, I really don't see it happening.