Re: DNS and CL&F

On 06/14/11 08:07, Jean-Francois Messier wrote:
> I had to manage about 35 domains for a Department, and those were mostly
> under .gc.ca. I also had the chance to read about those, from CIRA
> themselves, and in short, .gc.ca is managed just as .ca, or .on.ca or
> any other province. It is actually considered at the same level as other
> country-based TLDs, For .gc.ca, you need to be a government employee
> with an email address from the government, and you also have to provide
> a lot of information about the purpose of the domain name, beyond just
> contacts names. There is no cost as such for the domain registration,
> and there is no expiry as for a regular .ca domain.
For example, boo.gc.ca is "registered" with the owner of gc.ca, not a
normal registrar, right?
> Once the registration is complete with all the information, you are
> ready to go. Usually, they are asking that the DNS servers are ready
> before enabling the name. 
>
> So the .gc.ca domain names are not available for the general public, as
> the .on.ca or .qc.ca. Note that .qc.ca (Quebec) has been frozen, in that
> you can no more register a .qc.ca domain anymore. However, if you own
> one, you're safe. This decision was taken few months ago, as the number
> of .qc.ca domain names registrations was too low. Also, if you register,
> say, a .ca domain like messier.ca, you also control the .qc.ca and
> .on.ca domains. Those are not registered, but if someone else wants to
> register messier.ab.ca for example, they first need to ask you. We
> wanted to register justice.ca but could not, as justice.on.ca was
> already registered, and the owner was asking for "big bucks" before
> releasing the .ca name. We had to give up on this.
>
>
> JF
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>   -------- Original Message --------
>  Subject: Re: [oclug] DNS and CL&F
>  From: Charles MacDonald <[email protected]>
>  Date: Mon, June 13, 2011 10:26 pm
>  To: General Membership Discussion List <[email protected]>
>  
>  On 11-06-13 09:31 PM, James wrote:
>  > I've been reading the common look and feel directives for government
> of
>  > Canada websites.
>  > How does cybersquatting apply to the register of gc.ca?
>  > I always thought it would be impossible to register boo.gc.ca if
> someone
>  > else has registered gc.ca.
>  
>  Yes but someone could register say harpergovernment.ca or 
>  Employmentinsurance.Com
>  
>  (in fact
>  host harpergovernment.ca
>  harpergovernment.ca has address 205.196.19.17
>  harpergovernment.ca mail is handled by 0 harpergovernment.ca.
>  )
>  
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