.CA domains owned by American Registrants

[RatherGood]

Under the .CA registration rules the registrant has to meet "residency" status.

An American company is listed as the admin contact - but a bogus Canadian corporation is listed as the owner.

The .CA name is doing a framed redirect to their .COM name which is the US business.

They have no trademark or are even allowed to register the domain name.

I can snitch which is all fun and games, but how do I get this domain for myself? Can this be taken care of via UDP?

 

[TexasFilly]

what's the name your referring too?

if the owner has a canadian relation,
and the registration has went through
successful..

prob not much you can do to gain the name
except to buy it.

goodluck.

 

[RatherGood]

I'm going to be secretive about the actualy name at this point. It's a valuable keyword and generic (not their actual business name).

I know they are not selling it and it doesn't expire for a few years.

Naturally, I would prefer to have it! Especially if they have no claim to it.

Originally posted by TexasFilly
what's the name your referring too?

if the owner has a canadian relation,
and the registration has went through
successful..

prob not much you can do to gain the name
except to buy it.

goodluck.

 

[Anthony Ng]

gruffyserv, I assume that you are Canadian, eh? Frankly, there ARE quite a number of non-Canadian entities that have registered some decent dot-ca names "illegally", including some of our friends here on DNForum.com; however, it would take a long and difficult process to get the domains from them, even if it is viable.

It doesn't hurt to file a complaint (to CIRA) in order to teach them a lesson , but don't expect to get any result soon (say within 6-9 months). I filed a legitimate complaint against a certain illegal registration (not in this context though) back in January 2002 and have heard from CIRA only once saying that it's under investigation.

 

[RatherGood]

Yes I'm very Canadian.

It makes sense to register what you can in the unregulated market. The registar's are very happy to take the money regardeless.

I don't know to what extent this is covered under UDRP. I'd certainly invest in trademarking the domain myself and go about it that way (the so called reverese-jacking).

CIRA seems like a bunch of jokers. The don't really stand to benefit in anyway from responding to complaints so that about sums up their interest level.

Originally posted by nameslave
gruffyserv, I assume that you are Canadian, eh? Frankly, there ARE quite a number of non-Canadian entities that have registered some decent dot-ca names "illegally", including some of our friends here on DNForum.com; however, it would take a long and difficult process to get the domains from them, even if it is viable.

It doesn't hurt to file a complaint (to CIRA) in order to teach them a lesson , but don't expect to get any result soon (say within 6-9 months). I filed a legitimate complaint against a certain illegal registration (not in this context though) back in January 2002 and have heard from CIRA only once saying that it's under investigation.