Re: [apps-discuss] [taugh.com-standards] Comments on draft-levine-orgboundary

["Murray S. Kucherawy" <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 7:57 PM, John Levine <[e-mail]> wrote:

> >To be clear if slightly pedantic about the example, the current
> >registration rules don't permit the first case any more.  Also as I
> >understand it, case (2) sort of depends on what you mean by "same
> >entity".  Everything of the form [municipality].[province].ca under
> >the current rules must be a department of the municipality.  You can't
> >register (for instance) somecompany.toronto.on.ca.  This is under the
> >CIRA rules for the delegation of [municipality].[province].ca.
>
> That may be the current rule, but I know someone whose domain is
> <something>.montreal.qc.ca.  There are of course plenty of other
> ccTLDs with irregular registration boundaries, e.g., trieste.it is a
> geographic delegation point while triste.it is a registration.
>

Back when there was a committee of ISPs approving .ca domains, what level
in the .ca tree you got depended on the breadth of your business.  The
default was to register your entity in your municipality unless you could
show incorporation or operations in a wider scope.  There are undoubtedly
numerous domains created under that rule that still exist.

-MSK