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For Immediate Release

Canadian companies may not get the .CA domain 
they asked for.


CANADA: Oct 18, 2000 - Canadian companies
may be in for a wake up call on November 1st,
when they find out the .CA name they recently
applied for, and believe they will get, has been
taken by someone else.

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority
(CIRA) is scheduled to take control over the .CA
name space, releasing the University of British
Columbia from it's previous role in maintaining
the Canadian domain space.

In addition to the change in management, the
rules for approving .CA names will change. The
rules currently in place restrict .CA names to
federally incorporated companies or businesses
with offices in two or more provinces. Only one
.CA domain name was allowed per company, a
restriction that has created problems for
companies with multiple brands.

On November 1st, the new rules will allow anyone
with a Canadian presence to register as many .CA
domains as they wish.

Domain names are not registered directly through
CIRA. To obtain a .CA domain name under the new
authority you must go through one of the many
companies that have been approved by CIRA to
operate as a Registrar.

Registrars who have been in operation for some
time now have been handling the re-registrations
of existing .CA names, as well as queuing up new
.CA requests under the proposed new rules. Each
Registrar maintaining it's own internal queue of
new names.

On, or shortly after, midnight on October 31st,
CIRA will begin accepting new name registrations
from each Registrar in what they refer to as "the
CAROUSEL policy". This policy outlines that it
will be taking the new name requests in a
round-robin fashion, taking one name from a
Registrar's queue, moving on to the next
Registrar and taking their next queued name and
so on until all queue's have been exhausted.

Given that situation, companies that have
submitted a new .CA name request to a Registrar
already, may be at a disadvantage due to the size
of the Registrar's queue.

Adding to the confusion is the fact that if you
go to one Registrar to submit a name, that
Registrar may say that it has been reserved, but
another Registrar may not have that name in their
queue and the name would show as being still
available.

Companies can verify if a name may be available
by doing a search using the existing .CA
database: http://www.cdnnet.ca/search.html

"To give yourself the best chance of winning the
names you want," according to Tom Brown, CEO of
Baremetal.com Inc., a newly accredited .CA
Registrar, "try to register your .CA names with
every Registrar that offers a money back
guarantee. The Registrar with the shortest queue
will be your best chance."

Interestingly enough, the CIRA policy actually
favors newly accredited registrars such as
Baremetal.com.

A partial list of accredited Registrars can be
found at the CIRA Web site: http://www.cira.ca/

For more information, visit
http://CanadianHosting.com/baremetal/

-- 
Canadian Domain Names, get the facts: 
"Canadian companies may be in for a wake up call on November 1st, when they
find out the .CA name they recently applied for, and believe they will get,
has been taken by someone else"
http://CanadianHosting.com/dotCAnews.php3