Canada reaches two million .CA Internet domain name registries

Ottawa
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The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) announced Thursday that Canada has reached its two millionth .CA registration. This makes Canada the fourth fastest-growing Internet domain name and 14th largest.
It took 21 years to generate one million .CA Internet domain name registrations. It took only four years to reach two million. This is transpiring as many .CA domain names are being registered for both private and business use.


The latest .CA registration came from Leora Rissin, a retired schoolteacher from Toronto, Ontario, who created algonquinhouse.ca for a new bed and breakfast small business located near High Park.


It was nearly 25 years ago when the .CA domain name was established by University of British Columbia volunteers, which then became the CIRA 13 years later. The very first .CA domain name was set up in 1988 by the University of Prince Edward Island that had upei.ca.


?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,? said John Demco, the team leader responsible for the 1987 .CA foundation, in a news release.


?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.?


Byron Holland, President and CEO of CIRA, said in a news release that maintaining a .CA address is akin to having a Canadian flag on a ?digital backpack.? He noted that having such an address represents the country on the Internet and data indicates that Canadians prefer .CA for things like breaking news, banking and shopping.


The Canadian domain name is the 14th largest among those with countries that have specific domain names, such as .UK. It is also the fourth-fastest growing Internet domain name registry.

Source: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/337474

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