The Canadian Internet Registration Authority is getting a rough ride today. A representative of the Joe Volpe leadership campaign suggested that the campaign contacted CIRA and had the spoof site youthforvolpe.ca pulled down.
CIRA has no such power and, as CIRA’s executives said today, it never talked to anyone associated with Volpe’s campaign.
CIRA is not a federal government organization although the federal government has authorized it to manage the .ca domain. But CIRA itself is run by a board of directors elected by, me and anyone else who owns a .ca domain.
CIRA sets out the rules over which we can argue over the rights to a particular domain name but CIRA cannot order anyone to take down or transfer a particular domain.
I have no knowledge of how youthforvolpe.ca disappeared from the Net — only Volpe's campaign and the domain name owners know for sure.
Who was the mastermind behind youthforvolpe.ca? I'll bet that Mike Hunt from Belleville knows:
WHOIS lookup for youthforvolpe.ca
Domain youthforvolpe.ca is SUSPENDED.
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