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I don't mind what happens either way, but our population is under 40 million, and I don't know what other country codes, with bigger populations, need to have the same kind of provincial/state add-on extensions. Does .us have this? Or .de or .co.uk?
Why not girlguidesmb.ca and girlguideson.ca instead? There are lots of ways around having to use a provincial extension.
Plus, existing ones seem to be grandfathered in, and if you can still apply to CIRA for one, they still have an avenue to continue. I'm sure new organizations that crop up similar to girl guides or charities, operating in different provinces, would get approved.
First of all, if you need to beg CIRA for approval and they may or may not approve something, depending upon how they see things that day, rather than having simple rules like I proposed, then tell me please what they will change next, with no notice.
Perhaps people who own more than ten domains will need to seek special permission to own more domains, or submit to a special exam. If they can get away with this, then keep quiet when the next change happens!
Secondly, Nominet in the UK runs .co.uk along with .org.uk and the like - they divided their tree along the lines of organisation type, which several other countries have done, while physically larger countries relied upon territorial branches. As katherine stated you can already say the U.S. has at least 50 third level domains hanging from the .us tree.
Look around the world: many countries are small, non-diverse or linguistically monolithic, so they do not need state or province divisions.
In Europe many refer to cities more than a specific state, like Sedo is 'based in Cologne' without ever even putting the state name in their address - just 'Germany'. Europe has 40 or 50 country ccTLDs plus .eu - so why do we have a problem with Canada having a proper province and territory designation?