Canadian domain names work much the same as they do in the U.S.
Registrants should use legal names to establish ownership of a domain.
However, there is a national mindset behind the use of the .ca registry.
Those who have the designated tag in their domain names want to make
sure that everyone who uses it really is Canadian or based in Canada.
The Canadian Presence Requirements help to establish some ground rules for domain name ownership. Canadian citizens, for example, have to use the name that they would ordinarily use on a passport, driver's license or government-issued identification. Only a space, a hyphen or a period can accompany the name. If a person is doing business under another name, he must use o/a, which stands for "operating as," after his
name.
Perhaps this seems a bit complex for a domain name. It is often tough to imagine that people might want to use a name that is not their own, or that they might want to add the .ca designation to a domain name if they are based in another country. However, without the CPR rules, some undesired things could very well happen.
Not only would it be confusing to those who are browsing for content, but it might also give unsavory domain owners and avenue to perform illegal activity and get away with it. The CPR is a check-and-balance system to prevent these kind of events. All over the world, people want to know that a domain owner is a real person and that he is in the country that he says he is.
The Canadian Presence Requirements help to establish some ground rules for domain name ownership. Canadian citizens, for example, have to use the name that they would ordinarily use on a passport, driver's license or government-issued identification. Only a space, a hyphen or a period can accompany the name. If a person is doing business under another name, he must use o/a, which stands for "operating as," after his
name.
Perhaps this seems a bit complex for a domain name. It is often tough to imagine that people might want to use a name that is not their own, or that they might want to add the .ca designation to a domain name if they are based in another country. However, without the CPR rules, some undesired things could very well happen.
Not only would it be confusing to those who are browsing for content, but it might also give unsavory domain owners and avenue to perform illegal activity and get away with it. The CPR is a check-and-balance system to prevent these kind of events. All over the world, people want to know that a domain owner is a real person and that he is in the country that he says he is.
