Five years ago I chose to register my site, Caffinara, with a dot ca domain name. I wanted to announce my Canadianess. I wanted to be different from all those generic dot com sites. Dot com denotes a commercial site and since I'm not selling anything dot ca seemed appropriate.
On April 13 2008 I received a letter from the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) congratulating me on choosing a dot ca domain on that date dot ca had registered its one millionth domain name. Dot ca registration started in 1988 and was managed by volunteers at the University of British Columbia. Ten years later CIRA was incorporated to manage the dot ca domains and in 2000 60,000 domains were transfered from UBC to CIRA.
If you are thinking of registering a domain consider adding you country code to the end. Stand out from the crowd.
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