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Hello,

I tried to post this some time ago, it did not get posted. I tried a test,
which did get posted. So, here's a second attempt.

Last December/95, I tried to register col.ca, and ran into the understandable
refusals. Having plainly declared my committment to qualify asap, I settled
for col.on.ca

It took me untill March 20/96 to get federally incorporated. This was 
difficult, for even though I had been provincially registered as a company,
since November of 1994, other corporations got inc'd with names similar 
to mine, but long after my provincial registration, causing a 'cofusion 
conflict problem' for the feds, and for me.

I finally got the inc., and immediately applied for col.ca, only to find
that it had been registered some 11 days before.

Not to Canada Online, or Online Construction, nor, TWA, which has a COL
trademark, nor any of the other truly potential name conflicts,

but rather to a Calgary Online, with plans to go national, or at least,
more than 2 provinces. An outfit that wants to be considered national,
but, called Calgary Online.

My inernet related company is known by almost 43,000 surfers as
COL, and now I have to rethink the whole corporate image.

With all the battles breaking out over domain registrations, and going to 
courts, with potential millions to be wasted fighting, I respectfully
suggest that, these issues be deeply considered, for making some changes.

One suggstions I would like to make is that if someone or company or org
like me, that registers a subdomain such as col.on.ca,
and expresses strong plans to upgrade to national,
we aught be to allowed first chance to register related national domain.

And, the other way from antional to subdomains too.

Thankyou for considering these comments.


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Steve Hartwell - <aa028@torfree.net><aa205@torfree.net><conston@io.org>
Toronto Freenet Information Resources Committee Volunteer - and:
Founder of Construction  Online  |    Construction Industry - Res-ICI
Toronto, Ontario, Canada         |    http://www.io.org/~conston