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CIRA officially opened its offices in Ottawa, Ontario on May 2, 2001. CIRA Members (CIRA Registrants with at least one active .ca domain name) voted in the first Board of Directors election in June 2001. The first CIRA Annual General Meeting was held in Toronto in December 2001. By the end of 2001, the registry contained 270,655 .CA domain names.<ref>[http://www.cira.ca/cira-history/ CIRA.ca ]</ref>
CIRA officially opened its offices in Ottawa, Ontario on May 2, 2001. CIRA Members (CIRA Registrants with at least one active .ca domain name) voted in the first Board of Directors election in June 2001. The first CIRA Annual General Meeting was held in Toronto in December 2001. By the end of 2001, the registry contained 270,655 .CA domain names.<ref>[http://www.cira.ca/cira-history/ CIRA.ca ]</ref>
CIRA Launched Public Board Elections in March, 2001.<ref>[http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~geist/domains.html Université d'Ottawa ]</ref>
In June 2003, ICANN Public Meeting in Montreal. <ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/meetings/montreal/ ICANN.org ]</ref>. CIRA also hosted an event during ICANNs 2005 Annual General Meeting in Vancouver.
In June 2003, ICANN Public Meeting in Montreal. <ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/meetings/montreal/ ICANN.org ]</ref>. CIRA also hosted an event during ICANNs 2005 Annual General Meeting in Vancouver.
CIRA announced that it has surpassed one million dot-ca domain name registrations in April, 2008, .<ref>[http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2840/196/ Micheal Geist]</ref>
In October, 2009 CIRA announced the launch of a test-bed initiative for DNSSEC.<ref>[http://www.circleid.com/posts/canada_launching_dnssec_test_bed_for_ca_domain/ CircleID ]</ref> Officials from CIRA said, the process of implementing DNSSEC had began from early 2009 while the implementation date was set for 2010.
In October 12, 2010, CIRA released a new version of its domain name registration system and stopped accepting new registrations for third-level domains. <ref>[http://www.cira.ca/ca-faq-10-12 CIRA.ca ]</ref>
==Services==
Besides top level Canadian domain names (such as www.sampledomainname.ca), there are also lower level Canadian domain names (such as www.sampledomainname.bc.ca), all are overseen by CIRA.
From October 12, 2010, CIRA has stopped registering third-level domains defined by the registry (e.g. example.ab.ca) but has announced to continue supporting the existing third-level domain names.
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