added to the motivation. Brent As an owner of a .ca domain, I would rather be given the choice of choosing my registrar than being dictated a registrar by an automatic switch over. It took me less than half an hour to do it and it still costs less than registering a .com domain. only allowed to register a .ca domain if you were a federal company or owned the trademark This is a little misleading. You can register for sub-level domains e.g xxx.qc.ca without being federally incorporated. Anyway, it may seem strange to you, but I found the process relatively straightforward. You also claim that the re-registration process was initiated to settle URL disputes, to my knowledge the re-registration was done to hand over the management of the .ca domain from a non-profit volunteer based organisation to commercial registrars. Just thought you might like to know, Darrel Miller The whole affair is a big mess. Part of the reason many people did not re-register is simply because they do not know they have to!! I have been talking to a few ISPs and they decided it is not their responsibility to inform their clients! This is how it works. CIRA sends out an email to the owner (if their e-mail is different than what they have now, too bad) and the other goes to the technical contact (the ISP or webhost). In many cases, only the technical contact gets the email and not the actual owner (because their contact