I am not Canadian and I am trying to decide whether it is worth paying for the Canadian Presence requirements which means paying the expenses involved in maintaining an office address, phones, provincial incorporation and tax filing requirements. Not only time consuming but expensive for those of us on a budget and not making any money from the .ca domain. On one hand I really cannot afford to be doing all of that but on the other I am concerned that letting it drop or be taken by cira will devalue the investment in my .com. For this same domain I also own the .net, .org, .cc, .tv, .co, co.uk, com.au, co.nz, etc, etc well you get the picture. I have owned the domains for this word for over 10 years including the .ca. The site itself is about 9 letters but it is a very common name. The site was developed and had traffic at one time but has not been updated for years so it is really out dated and traffic has dropped off. Although I have spent about 2000 hours (my lifes work) and money trying to rebuild it, I have yet to relaunch the new site. There is also a media company that has registered and trademarked a shorter version of my domain name including part of my logo using my same font. That part of the word they are using makes no sense so I think they are doing it to eventually gain control over my domains for this word. Domain sellers have been trying to sell me that part of the word that the media company brought for $20 for years and I laughed when I saw it. But this media company registered it and literally invested several million dollars in it. So based on this I think my full word domain is valuable. Does anyone here have a successful site that believes .ca is not worth the registering to protect your investment? Amazing that Canadians can buy whatever they want here in the US but I could lose my 10 year investment in the .ca domain name because of CIRA's protectionist trade polices.
If the company which would like to overtake your domain and they do have trademark. They might just report you and get the domain from with free and you might in trouble of having the domain name which do have trademark of other company . The risk is there. You might end up with rich if they paid you for the domain name or you might end up with get sue with trademark issues. Sometime it luck.