Sooner or later the professional domain campers were bound to appear. Imagine volunteers running out of CS departments at local universities armed with pea shooters confronting malaria season after a spring flood. So what was to be done? Grant entitlement status to all the scammers like myself on the basis of what we had wheedled from a petty functionary operating in a spirit of civic duty with neither a mandate nor the authority to enforce one? As I see it, the new system has nothing to knock against it. What they have done is created, at long last, a registration process which does have a mandate and the proper authority to enforce it, and required those who hold existing claims under the previous, rather lax regime to re-apply to the same standards which were already required in the first place. And I'm certainly not paying for something twice. I never paid for my original registration in the first place, nor anything at all for the years I've operated it. The Canadian government wishes to deprive me of something I obtained for free by penning in a few white lies on a simple one-page application form screened by a petty functionary with no authority. How may I join the NRA? Neither have they granted the large and powerful trademark holders a priority over my existing dubious claim. I'm only required to meet the rule that as a owner of a top level .ca subdomain I have a legitimate claim to operating