What happened to dot-ca domain names that were reserved with a registrar before the new rules were implemented?
• Many registrars offered a pre-registration service for new domain names. All queued requests for registration of new dot-ca names were processed beginning November 8, 2000 according to CIRA’s policies. In order to make the process as fair as possible, all .ca domain names that were queued with a certified registrar were processed in an order to be determined randomly. CIRA’s system processed one name from each registrar’s queue in a circuit of the queues. It then repeated the circuit until all the names were processed in the system. If a dot-ca domain name was pre-booked with a registrar and was not registered, this means that the registration request by another applicant who requested the same domain name was processed first.
