CIRA Annual Report 2007-2008

“ Finding the right domain namewas the key to our success,and Carpool.ca is so easy toremember and speaks directlyto our Canadian audience.Carpool.ca is featured onhighway signs in Calgary,Edmonton, British Columbia’sOkanagan region, and oncampuses across Canada.People use the site to findconvenient carpool partners,protect the environment, andsave and hundreds of dollarsannually.”2007–2008 CIRA Annual Report7CIRA was incorporated in December 1998through the efforts of two founders: businessmanager Ron Harbottle and Internet pioneerBernard Turcotte, who produced the businessplan, oversaw the development of supportingsoftware, and launched the company.Mr. Turcotte would serve as CIRA’s Presidentand CEO until August 2007, while Ron retiredin June 2008 with the title Interim ChiefOperating Officer.By 2000 CIRA had grown to a handful of stafferswith an interim Board of Directors and wasready to open its doors to new registrations. InDecember CIRA assumed the dot-ca registry,and its 60,000 existing dot-ca domain names,from the University of British Columbia.“CIRA and I have come along way from those earlydays. We are both now ina period of transition asCIRA revamps its businessprocedures to confronta dynamic and changingmarket and I look forwardto summers at thecottage.— Ron Harbottle,Interim Chief Operating Officer (Retired)”Twelve Directors are elected and hold votingseats; CIRA’s President and CEO and two BoardDirectors, including a representative fromIndustry Canada, are appointed and hold nonvotingseats. CIRA holds an annual membershipwideonline election to fill vacant Board seats.