In one respect, neither a registered partnership nor a registered
proprietorship is a legal entity, but in other ways both are. I don't
believe it varies that much from province to province. But that doesn't
alter the fact that neither is listed on CIRA's "Legal Types for
Registrants". Basically, if you are a registered partnership, the domain
must be registered in the name of ONE (and only one) of the partners, and if
you are a proprietorship, the name must be registered in the name of the
(sole) proprietor.
But I believe that you missed the point I was making. And that is the
ridiculous and arcane ways that CIRA tries to figure out if a registrant
complies. My name does not pass their regular expression test, I believe
because of the apostrophe &/or the upper-case "D"; therefore I must use a
name which is neither my legal registered name (from birth), nor my
registered (sole-proprietorship) company name.
I think that CIRA should offer "registered partnership or proprietorship" as
one of the "legal entities". It would make things a whole lot easier for all
involved. I mean... if I can order a telephone, rent a building, and lease a
vehicle under my company name, you would think I could register a domain
name under it.
Oh, and just for clarification, my registered proprietorship status allowed
me to get an IRS tax number for conducting business in the USA, which in
turn allowed me to register doctorpc.us with no legal hassles or
hoop-jumping.
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Andersen" <opensrs-discuss@paul.ca>
To: "Doctor PC - Brian O'Donnell" <brian@doctorpc.ca>
Cc: "admin" <admin@whatevercomputes.com>; "disscuss"
<discuss-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: .ca registration failure
>
> You are correct if you mean Registered Partnerships which don't qualify
> because they are not their own legal entity. Only a corporation is.
>
> This is actually not so much a CIRA problem as a Canadian Law problem
> which varies wildly from province to province when it comes to RP's. The
> problem is that most provinces don't let bind the entity to a contract.
>
> I understand that this can be a PITA but you should whine to your local
> province ;)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
>
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