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Canada Reaches Two Million .CA Internet Addresses
OTTAWA, Nov. 22, 2012, 2012 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) --
The Canadian Internet Registration
Authority (CIRA) announced today it has reached the two million mark
for registered .CA Internet domain names. This milestone demonstrates
Canadians' rapidly increasing adoption of .CA domain names for personal
and business use: it took 21 years for one million .CA domain names to
be registered and just four years to reach the next million.
The two million mark is all the more poignant as it comes at the close
of the 25(th) anniversary of the founding of the .CA domain. It was established in
1987 by a group of volunteers at the University of British Columbia
(UBC) and transferred to CIRA in 2000. In 1988, the first .CA domain
name, upei.ca, was registered by the University of Prince Edward
Island.
Leora Rissin, a retired schoolteacher from Toronto, Ontario, registered
the two-millionth .CA domain name, algonquinhouse.ca. She is planning
to use it to promote her new small business, a bed and breakfast near
High Park.
"For me, having a .CA lets everyone know you're a Canadian business,"
said Ms. Rissin.
".CA is like having a Canadian flag on your digital backpack," says
Byron Holland, President and CEO of CIRA., "It represents Canada on the
Internet. And research shows Canadians prefer.CA sites for online news,
banking and shopping. So it's no surprise our numbers continue to
climb."
.CA is the fourth fastest-growing Internet domain name registry and the
fourteenth largest compared to other country specific domain names like
.uk (United Kingdom). "When we started the .CA domain there were only a
few thousand computers on the Internet - in total - and no one thought
it would ever be so pervasive," says John Demco, who led the team
responsible for creating the .CA top-level domain at UBC in 1987. "Now
Canada leads the world in the amount of time its citizens spend online,
and while the Internet from a technology perspective doesn't concern
itself with nationality, Canadians strongly identify with.CA domain
names and the registration of two million .CAs is proof of that."
About CIRA
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority is the Member-driven
organization that manages Canada's .CA domain name registry, develops
and implements policies that support Canada's Internet community, and
represents the .CA registry internationally.
SOURCE: Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA)
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SOURCE: Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA)
For more information or to schedule an interview: Tanya O'Callaghan Communications
Manager, Canadian Internet Registration Authority (613) 237-5335 ext. 262
tanya.ocallaghan@cira.ca
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