As of today the Canadian Government owns .gov.ca
This domain will be used mostly for official communications with non-Canadians (who tend to get confused by .gc.ca) and allow for many more government initiatives with an easy to remember domain name.
More info: http://mcanerin.blog...main-govca.html
Interestingly, a certain Canadian SEO with a lot of Government clients was responsible for first suggesting this while on a recent trip to Ottawa
The .gc.ca is still the official one, as well - this is just added to it.
Ian
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Canadian Government Has New Tld
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mcanerin
, Feb 10 2006 07:43 PM
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Posted 10 February 2006 - 07:43 PM
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Posted 11 February 2006 - 12:53 AM
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Interestingly, a certain Canadian SEO with a lot of Government clients was responsible for first suggesting this while on a recent trip to Ottawa
Would that be someone we know?
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Posted 11 February 2006 - 02:03 AM
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Posted 11 February 2006 - 02:18 AM
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Would that be someone we know?
Why...yes....as a matter of fact....
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Posted 11 February 2006 - 08:51 AM
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QUOTE(Randy @ Feb 11 2006, 02:03 AM) Ian is going to be Prime Minister next time around. I can feel it. But Randy, I thought you liked Ian! Why would you wish something like that on him?   |
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Posted 11 February 2006 - 10:26 AM
What about the provincial governments? I seem to recall that Quebec's official pages, even the ones in English, are at gouv.qc.ca -- that's gouv, not gov. So you get URLs like http://www.gouv.qc.c...itoyens?lang=en
Anything you can do about that, Ian? It just doesn't seem right that English pages should reside at such a French-esque domain
Anything you can do about that, Ian? It just doesn't seem right that English pages should reside at such a French-esque domain
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Posted 09 March 2006 - 02:02 PM
QUOTE(qwerty @ Feb 11 2006, 11:26 AM)
What about the provincial governments? I seem to recall that Quebec's official pages, even the ones in English, are at gouv.qc.ca -- that's gouv, not gov. So you get URLs like http://www.gouv.qc.c...itoyens?lang=en
Anything you can do about that, Ian? It just doesn't seem right that English pages should reside at such a French-esque domain
Anything you can do about that, Ian? It just doesn't seem right that English pages should reside at such a French-esque domain
Oh Qwerty! Don't get me started on Quebec government websites! They are just awful! Rarely do you find complete information in English! Or you'll find a link to an English page that is written in French!
Do not expect gouv to replaced by gov anytime soon :-)
Congrats Ian! I didn't hear about this until I just read this post! One thing that I don't care for are the marketing URLs that .gc.ca has been using. It would be nice if .gc.ca were retained for official department names - even there I can't keep track of things LOL
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Posted 09 March 2006 - 02:09 PM
Hey Ian!
Do you have any links to official Canadian government sites acknowledging this? I couldn't find anything and was surprised that canada.gov.ca doesn't work...
Darlene
Do you have any links to official Canadian government sites acknowledging this? I couldn't find anything and was surprised that canada.gov.ca doesn't work...
Darlene
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Posted 09 March 2006 - 02:20 PM
Nice find, Ian. Any chance they'll be auctioning off those TLDs to folks who want to create domains with words ending in govca... like, let's see
whacha.want.fa.dinnah.gov.ca
OK, so I'm stretching in my application of the del.icio.us principle.
whacha.want.fa.dinnah.gov.ca
OK, so I'm stretching in my application of the del.icio.us principle.
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Posted 09 March 2006 - 03:04 PM
Rand! Too funny on the url!Ian won't be answering for a bit most likely. He's on his China junket atm so I'm sure connectivity is going to be an issue even if free time isn't.
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