Price Cap Removals Shake Up The Internet
A recent article on Mashable reviews the early history of ICANN (the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers) in light of a recent decision…
Category: History
How Candidates Use Their Domains for Outreach
With a general election in our midst, candidates across Canada are scrambling for attention. Most political parties have centralized their campaign websites, providing subdomains and…
How is .QUEBEC doing?
A motion to establish a distinct extension for Quebec passed unanimously by National Assembly of Quebec in 2008. PointQuébec Inc was formed as a non…
The Politics of Domains
The writ has dropped for the 43rd Canadian General Election. As the nation’s federal parties take their platforms to the people of Canada, their use…
The online discourse of truth and reconciliation
As part of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority’s (CIRA’s) Community Investment Program, the organization Facing History and Ourselves is introducing an educational resource for middle…
20 Years of BlackBerry
It was Waterloo’s claim to fame in the digital world. In January of 1999, the company known formerly as Research In Motion (RIM) introduced the…
What was the first .ca domain?
We all take the .ca domain for granted now to represent Canadian content on the internet, but what was the very first one? How did…