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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has released the results of its first consultation on its proposed implementation of .CA domains with French accent characters (known as the Latin Supplement -1 Unicode characters), such as é à ü and ç.
Under its initial implementation plan, CIRA proposed a sunrise period during which owners of .CA domain owners could register as many French accented variants of their existing ASCII (non- accented Latin-based script characters, namely the letters a-z) domains as they opted for. For example, the owner of grace.ca could also register grâce.ca during the sunrise period, before that accented variant of grace.ca (and all other French accent variants) would be opened up for registration to anyone else who otherwise qualifies to own a .CA domain.
As a result of comments received during the first consultation period, many citing concerns about increased costs to .CA domain owners, phishing and the potential for consumer confusion, CIRA is now proposing to do away with any sort of sunrise and landrush periods and instead is proposing that only the owner of a .CA domain name with ASCII characters would have the right to register any or all French accented versions of that .CA domain. In addition, under the new proposal, once a French accented .CA domain name variant has been registered, it cannot be transferred without also transferring the ASCII .CA domain name and all other registered French accented .CA domain name variants. CIRA refers to this concept as “character bundling”. In addition, CIRA is also considering the feasibility of some additional French accent characters that are commonly used.
CIRA is seeking input and comments on its revised implementation plan, during a second consultation period, running from January 24 to February 24, 2012.
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CIRA Announces Implementation Date For New CDRP Policy and Rules
Monday, July 25th, 2011
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), has announced that its revised Dispute Resolution Policy (CDRP) and Rules will take effect on August 22, 2011. A summary of the changes is available on the CIRA website.
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Survey On Preparation For New gTLDs
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
A survey is now being conducted by World Trademark Review (WTR), seeking input from marketing and trademark professionals as to their views on how industry is preparing for the impact of the new generic top level domains (gTLD) that ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) appears to be pushing forward with. The survey is supported by a number of domain name and brand protection service providers, trademark owner associations and professional marketing associations.
As previously reported on this blog, ICANN proposes to expand beyond the current gTLDs, of which there are 21, including .com, .org and .net. Under the proposed expansion, any company will be permitted to set up its own domain registry under any term – for example .cars, .honda, .mapleleafs, .canucks and pretty much anything else will be possible. This development obviously has huge implications for all brand owners.
WTR’s survey is intended to provide a sense of how well prepared brand owners are for this coming change.
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