The.CA Registry Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow wwTLD Session, Vancouver November 30, 2005 Norm Ritchie Director of Computer Operations Canadian Internet Registration Authority

2 Overview A Bit of History CIRA Today CIRA Tomorrow Summary Questions and answers

3 CIRA History : IANA delegated.ca to University of British Columbia -Canadian Domain Name Consultative Committee -Founding Board -Canadian Internet Registration Authority incorporated in ,000 domains in December 2000

4 CIRA History Founding Principles Canadian Presence Requirements -For Registrants -For Registrars CIRA Dispute Resolution Policy Low barrier to entry for Registrars Competitive Registry

5 CIRA History Founding Principles Protection of the registrant directly from the registry Registrants are the members of the corporation Competitive Registrar distribution model Operate bilingually

6 Keeping.CA Canadian CIRA takes Canadian Presence Requirements (CPR) and the integrity of registrant information seriously CIRA automatically verifies all registrations requests CIRA verifies all accepted registration requests manually CIRA investigates all complaints about Registrants

7 CIRA Today Thick Registry that currently has over 600,000 domain names under management. Over 400,000 individual Registrants of which more than 300,000 are Members. Annual Elections and AGM Active in a Multitude of International Fora

8 CIRA Today Canadian Marketplace for Domains At June com 61% -.ca 22% -.net 5.90% -.info 5.76% -.org 3.80% -.biz 1.40% Total 2.5M domains

9 CIRA Today Approximately 95 Certified Registrars CIRA processes each day: -700 Registration requests -6,000 Public Web page requests -13,000 TBR requests -600,000 WHOIS queries -75M-100M DNS requests

10 CIRA Today Our mission -Operate the dot-ca Internet country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) as a key public resource for all Canadians in an innovative, open, and efficient manner Major Focus Areas -Open and Transparent Processes -Robust and Resilient Systems -No Single Points of Failure

11 CIRA Today - Making it Better ‘Always On’ Registry -Redundant Everything -Automated Monitoring Systems -Hot Backup Site Backups for Staff Positions Process Simplification Governance Reforms Quality Culture -Continuous Process Improvement -Service Excellence

12 CIRA Tomorrow Cultural and Management -Quality, Quality, Quality Improving Existing Products and Services -Improve and simplify processes -CDRP review -Corporate governance reforms -WHOIS implementation -DNS Robustness -TBR -Performance Improvements

13 CIRA Tomorrow Some New Products and Services -IDN -IPv6 -Enum Tier 1A -DNS SEC -Registrar Tools and Business Metrics

14 Summary Not unlike a business venture startup, CIRA is in a state of transition. Quality and Service are Paramount

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