Therefore it is extremely important that their contact information be updated. Those .ca Domain Names that are not pre-registered before the Operational Transfer Date of the .ca Registry, later this fall, will not be included in the CIRA .ca Registry and will cease to function. Additionally, these Domain Names will be available for registration by other users after a grace period. This is part of an attempt by UBC to clean out invalid contact information from the registry. UBC will try to reach these contacts through other means such as the postal mail to advise them of the pressing need to update the contact information contained in their current .ca registration.
Undeliverable messages are only part of the problem.
CIRA is the Canadian Internet Registration Authority. This means that all Domain names ending with .ca are issued by them. As a Registry, CIRA is responsible for setting policy managing and operating the .ca domain database and registering domain names. On June 5, CIRA, the University of British Columbia and the Government of Canada announced that they had reached agreement on the terms under which CIRA would assume responsibility for the top-level .ca Registry. About CIRA s upcoming announcements Over the next few months, during the transfer of the .ca Registry, CIRA will be sending a number of news releases and advisories.