For Sale CIRA marketing machine = NOT.........

[ianccc]

Have you seen the Canada AM video when CIRA's John Demco was interviewed
http://www.cira.ca/en/media-room/video.html

Well all I can say..................

quote from ianc
"I did not hear anything that blew up my skirt"

Canada AM
"what are you planning for the 1,000,000 domain"
CIRA
"I think there will be a nice Gala"

Come on CIRA - is that the best you can do - nothing I hear from you folks inspires any confidence

~ian

 

[sudesh]

I don't get it either...

BTW.. the count is 999,418 now

 

[djallan]

Haha. John Demco (father of the Canadian internet) is a brilliant guy but he sure isn't an exciting, motivating, marketing type guy :lol:

Hey - anything that brings the millionth .ca to the attention of the general public is better than nothing.:clap2:

 

[whitebark]

It's going to take a lot more than Canada AM to draw attention to .ca. I probably haven't watched a minute of that show in a decade...

"I think there will be a nice Gala" = "there will be a nice champagne party for the CIRA insiders, a few select invitees and maybe a press release to announce our party."

 

[Kamloops]

ya they dont even have anything about it on the home page http://www.cira.ca/
You have to go one level in

 

[Daem0n]

I think you need to re-watch the interview. He was joking about the gala...he said there might be something that isn't mentioned yet. Also, they can't have anything about it on the MAIN cira.ca website because you need to choose English or French first for accessibility.

 

[ianccc]

I agree is came of as a half heartly response to the question, but what is with the secrecy, We had the Media guy for CIRA here on the forum he mentioning there are things planned.

So my question is this, we need to get behind any promotion once it is realeased so why not inform us (Aftermarket)

Today at 998,793 I guess with 2700 + dropping per week and only 3-500 of those getting picked up it will have to rely on the fresh reg market to get us there

 

[djallan]

Interesting point of view just posted on CanadianDots by a member that wonders ...

"What does CIRA have to gain by promoting, marketing the extension?
I'd expect .ca registrars and investors to have something to gain by the promotion but not CIRA. WE should be doing the promoting."

 

[PeterMan]

Interesting point of view just posted on CanadianDots by a member that wonders ...

"What does CIRA have to gain by promoting, marketing the extension?
I'd expect .ca registrars and investors to have something to gain by the promotion but not CIRA. WE should be doing the promoting."

Do they not collect a fee every time a .ca domain is registered?

 

[djallan]

Do they not collect a fee every time a .ca domain is registered?

Yup $8.00 per.
But they are a non-profit organization and that fee is (supposedly) what it costs to administer the domain on an annual basis. More domains = more cost to administer. No profit motive there.

 

[DropWizard.com]

Yup $8.00 per.
But they are a non-profit organization and that fee is (supposedly) what it costs to administer the domain on an annual basis. More domains = more cost to administer. No profit motive there.

Oh yeah.

$8 mill a year in fees to run a 1 mill database I could run for under 500k.

Typical bureaucracy. grrrrrrr