Hey guys. my site http://www.dogcollars.ca was registered in Nov. of 05. It sat there with some dog training articles on it, until middle of last month when I decided to attempt to get it into google news. I stripped it and since then have been putting freshly written dog news on it daily or bi-daily. It does not even have a logo as of yet, yet trafic as you will see is picking up dramatically. attributes: - cms = Drupal - Is a canine news site, currently just displaying fresh news articles - It currently has a pr value of 4. - has pr 4s and 5s backlinks from other pet sites in my pet network. - As of start of Mar. (Google News Inclusion) - Very brandable domain name, great not overpopulated nitch, with great seo and traffic potential. (with no work, ranks 40 on msn for dog collars.) (key word tracker, shows very positivley) - I have just put adsense on it, so have no adsense stats of yet, along with a pet med affiliate - Linked to a pet forum that I'm in the process of getting off the ground - traffic stats: Nov. 05 = 5 uniques per day Jan. 06 = 13 uniques per day Feb. 06 = 24 uniques per day Mar. 06 81 Uniques per day As you can see, the traffic is going up. I have done limitted directory submitting, and all the exchanged links on the home page are either mine or of other pet sites all, pr 4 and up. Reason for sellin is that I am looking to buy a big site and need money to do it. I am starting bidding at $1000.00. Some may think this high, but remember, google news does not come easily, site has great potential if marketted correctly, and if sold for good price I will continue writing for the site for a time to be determined between me and the buyer. I will also contribute separate articles dealing with health and training, as the ones currently there, are from a data feed to my other main pet site. Auction = yes Ending - Wed. 9:00 pm No bin, whomever has highest bid at auction end wins. Thanks. You can pm if you want anything else that I've left out...
I am also adding http://www.dogbreed.ca to the package. Was sold, but buyer has not paid so am including it with the sale of http://www.dogcollars.ca Dogbreed.ca is a pr 4 bookstore right now, with no advertizing done to it as of yet. I'm throwing it in free with the sale of http://www.dogcollars.ca
Are there any residency restrictions on .ca domains for people not being Canadian citizens? Christoph
Hopefully I'm clarifying not threadcrapping. But to actually 'own' a dot ca and register it in your name there is a shortlist of requirements - you do need some sort of canadian presence, either a citizen or a corp. It's one of the registrar questions. I'm sure there are ways around it, but technically speaking, .ca's are limited to Canadian citizens and corps.
I am looking at the Transfer Ownership screen right now. There is nothing to state that anybody cant own a Canadian domain, plus options are there in the address field for any country you choose, plus "postal or zip code". I can take a screen shot of it if ya want. I have also confirmed the fact with my registrer that people can own .ca domains without having to live in can. Cheers...
If this is going to be an issue, I can simply create a sub user, as one is allowed on each domain. That way, my name is on the account, however so is the new owners, plus their contact info and such...
Just an FYI: http://www.cira.ca/en/documents/q3/...entsForRegistrants-EffectiveDateJune52003.txt edit: you can also be the Queen or an Indian Band, apparently....
So, you can own a .ca if you're not Canadian, as long as you're the queen . As I mentioned, I don't want to threadcrap superpump, however also as noted above, you are supposed to be canadian to own a .ca. If you try and transfer it to 'john smith, littletown USA' accurately, it's not going to work. The subuser mentioned is likely your account through your registrar like tucows or look or something. This does NOT reflect in the cira ownership (in other words, setting up a sub user won't change the actual ownership in a whois lookup). Note that with .ca's there is generally two places you need to change the ownership -first with your registrar, and secondly with cira. It's the cira info that is the pain, and where you're going to get blocked if you're not canadian. Yet it's the cira info that is the actual authority. You don't see any of this secondary cira stuff when working with .com's. That being said, I can't imagine they'd be the first to fudge the domain ownership.
After reading again, the policies that cira adhear too, it does appear that the site would have to remain in my own name if sold to a non Canuck. I will still keep the auction going as having the site in my name does decrease the sites value, but does not take away from the fact that that you would stillf have full control over it. All aspects of the site would be yours. All that would change is that I would be the one that would have to re-rigister it when it expires, and would be the contact for cira if they need to contact the owner of the site.