I guess I fall somewhere in between the two, my main view is that CIRA should not compete with their channel, i.e. registrars.
Let's take a moment though to look at all of CIRA's products/initiatives:
* operating and promoting .CA (including root DNS)
* charitable grants to technology-related projects for public benefit
* setup and coordination of Internet Exchange points to keep traffic within Canada (IXPs)
* registry platform
* DNS for TLD zones
* City gTLDs
* Anycast DNS
* Canadian Internet Performance Test
* Cybersecurity Awareness training
* "DNS firewall" and the free "Canadian Shield" version of it
* Labs: IoT Home Gateway
* Labs: IoT Registry
* Labs: DNS query data collection and research, .CA server traffic dashboard, DNS Magnitude (determining how popular a domain is from DNS traffic), Malicious Domain Registrations (MDR) - detect MDRs
Did I miss anything?
Let's take a moment though to look at all of CIRA's products/initiatives:
* operating and promoting .CA (including root DNS)
* charitable grants to technology-related projects for public benefit
* setup and coordination of Internet Exchange points to keep traffic within Canada (IXPs)
* registry platform
* DNS for TLD zones
* City gTLDs
* Anycast DNS
* Canadian Internet Performance Test
* Cybersecurity Awareness training
* "DNS firewall" and the free "Canadian Shield" version of it
* Labs: IoT Home Gateway
* Labs: IoT Registry
* Labs: DNS query data collection and research, .CA server traffic dashboard, DNS Magnitude (determining how popular a domain is from DNS traffic), Malicious Domain Registrations (MDR) - detect MDRs
Did I miss anything?
