NEW DATE/TIME FOR CIRA’S RELEASE OF
CANCELLED DOT-CA DOMAIN IS JANUARY 24, 2002, 9:00 AM (OTTAWA
TIME)
January 23, 2002 —
On January 24, 2002, starting at 9:00 AM (Ottawa time), the
Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) will release
from its systems all the domain names that expired before January
23, 2002, 23:59:59 (Ottawa time). It is expected that the approximately
20,000 domain names will be released and made available for
registration.
CIRA had planned to release these
domain names on January 17, 2002 but chose to postpone the release
when it was found that some registrars could not access the
pool of available names. “We delayed the release because
we wanted to ensure that our first come first served approach
worked fairly for everyone,” said Bernard Turcotte, CIRA’s
President.
Since January 17, CIRA’s systems
have undergone an additional series of highly demanding tests
designed to ensure that all cancelled domain are made available
for registration through any CIRA Certified Registrars regardless
of the registration technology used.
CIRA will sequentially release
domain names in alphabetical order, starting with domain names
registered as numbers (e.g. 121212.ca), in groups based on the
first letter or number of the domain name to safeguard performance
levels from abnormally high transaction volumes.
All
expired dot-ca domain names are available on a first come first
served basis and can be purchased through Add Value International
Inc. (www.caregistration.com),
a CIRA Certified Registrar. After
January 24, 2002, CIRA will release expired domain names on
a daily basis.
To
register and reserved a dot-ca (.CA) domain name, click
here.
To
register multiple dot-ca (.CA) domain names, click
here.
To
view the list of domain names (1.5MB)
that are subject to cancelled registrations as
of January 11th, 2002, click here.
(Please be patient for the web page to load
as it's a large file!).
To
view the list of domain names (285KB)
in text as of January 11th, 2002,
click here.
To
view the latest expired
domain names to be released (TBR), click
here.
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