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By OpenSRS Team on October 29th, 2009
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CIRAWith a renewal rate of 74% and an annual growth rate of 20%, .CA serves value for your Canadian domains customers. The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) operates the .CA domain.

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Started in 1988, Growing Strong

The first .CA domain name was upei.ca, registered in 1988 by the University of Prince Edward Island. Back then, .CA was run by a group of volunteers at the University of British Columbia. In 2000, control of .CA was transferred to CIRA, a non-profit corporation that manages the .CA domain space on behalf of all Canadians.

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.CA Today

With over 1.2 million .CA domains in existence today, .CA easily ranks in the top 20 of ccTLDs worldwide. According to CIRA, more than 400,000 times every minute someone initiates an action online that involves a .ca domain name. CIRA has a new campaign to help Resellers leverage this activity. It’s called “Get my Own .CA” and features great Canadian small businesses and organizations such as Midnight Poutine and Blade Tape (hockey stick tape). CIRA has targeted the small business market with ads appearing in Marketing Magazine, The Globe and Mail, CBC.ca and Yahoo Canada.

Why .CA? CIRA’s Annual Report has more statistics to help your customers when they consider .CA:

  • 70% wanted to show their site was Canadian
  • 60% of Canadians prefer .CA for online shopping
  • 35% use their .CA for personal use
  • 64% use their .CA companies/organizations

Adam Eisner, Director, Domain Services for OpenSRS on .CA and the Canadian Market:

Quick Facts:

  • The .CA registry is CIRA, a not-for-profit corporation
  • .CA domain names are reserved for Canadian people and organizations that meet CIRA Canadian Presence Requirements
  • Started by UBC researchers in 1987 and became available for the general public in December 2000
  • .CA, a ccTLD, has over 1. 2 million domains registered
  • Registering a .CA means you can apply to become a voting member of the organization

Available Resources:

Editor’s note: OpenSRS offers 25 different top-level domains (TLDs) for our resellers. This is the 15th post in a series intended to share information about the wide range of TLDs and to introduce you to some of the available resources that the various Registries provide.

CIRA

Avec des renouvelements de 74% et une croissance annuelle de 20%, point-ca offre vos clients une aubaine. L’Autorité canadienne pour les enregistrements internet (ACEI) est le registre des noms de domaine .CA. En opération depuis une vingtaine d’années, le ccTLD .CA gère au-delà de 1,2 millions de noms de domaine:

chronologie de l'ACEI

Au moins 400,000 opérations chaque minute passent au cours de domaines point-ca. L’ACEI a récemment lancé « Get My Own .CA » , un projet démontrant des entreprises et organisations canadiennes, entre autres Midnight Poutine et Blade Tape. l’ACEI cible les petites entreprises avec ses annonces dans Marketing Magazine, Globeandmail.com, cbc.ca et Yahoo.ca.

Pourquoi point-ca? Le rapport annuel de l’ACEI pour 2009 offre quelques renseignements pour vos clients:

  • 70% désire montrer aux visiteurs qu’il s’agit d’un site Web canadien
  • 60% de canadiens préfèrent les domaines point-ca pour la commerce électronique
  • 35% utilise point-ca pour tâches personelles
  • 64% utilise point-ca pour compagnies ou organisations

    • Adam Eisner, Directeur de Domaines, au sujet de point-ca et le marché canadien:

    Données:

    • Le registre point-ca est l’ACEI, un société du secteur privé à but non lucratif
    • Créé in 1987 par des bénévoles de l’Université de la Colombie-Britannique et ouvert au publique en Décembre 2000
    • Point-ca, un ccTLD, gè au-delá de 1,2 million domaines
    • Comme titulaire, vous pouvez devenir membre de l’ACEI et aider à façonner l’avenir du Canada sur l’Internet
    • En Octobre 2009, l’ACEI a lancé un banc d’essai pour le DNSSEC, technologie importante pour avertier l’usurpation de sites web

    Resources Disponibles:

    Note de l’Éditeur: OpenSRS offre 25 domaines de tête (TLDs) à nos clients. Vous lizes l’article quinze dans une série visée a enseigner au sujet de les nombreux domaines de tête et partager les resources qu’offrent divers registres.

    Special thanks to Ben Zanin, Senior NOC Analyst, OpenSRS for providing his translation assistance.

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