RIP Linuxcaffe?

[E K]

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 From: D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>
To: "tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org" <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org> 
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:44:24 AM
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: RIP Linuxcaffe?
 
| From: Robert Brockway <robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org>

| On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, E K wrote:
| 
| > Oddly enough you need to have a passport to have a .ca domain name for your
| > privately owned company. That might be the reason their site is down.
| 
| Hi E K.  Here are the rules for .ca registration:
| 
| http://www.cira.ca/assets/Documents/Legal/Registrants/CPR.pdf

| At one point (perhaps 1992) I looked into .ca.  I think that it was
| when UBC was the gatekeeper.  The rules would not allow my
| Ontario-registered company to have a .ca domain if it didn't have some
| kind of presence in more than just Ontario.  Otherwise, I was supposed
| to register in on.ca.  Apparently those rules went away on 2000
| November 8.
|
| E K: when did you try to register?

I had registered the domain name without any of the documentation, as far as I can remember. It was only this year that the CIRA contacted me to give them the document. The business registration that I submitted clearly indicates that the company address is in Toronto. Arguably, that address is more current than the address on any of the documents that they asked. Definately more current than the birth certificate.

In the light of this case, their 'Canadian presence' reason didn't make sense to me. But, I have lived long enough to know that rules do not have to always be logical; only enforceable. 

EK
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