Comments on: The CBC: Master of its own domains?

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:04:09 +0000

Heck, why didn’t Don Cherry snag this particular domain name first?

By: Anne Onimos

Anne Onimos — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:32:34 +0000

If the merchandising is the only thing about this that bothers the Ceeb, why are they after the website and the domain name?

“So why doesn’t the CBC own HockeyNightInCanada.com?” I presume, because they were too incompetent to grab it when the grabbing was good, and too weak to do anything about it now.

By: Gord

Gord — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:37:59 +0000

It’s totally possible that someone registered Hockynightincanada.com well before the CBC even knew what a domain name was. It’d be easy to say that the CBC was slow to understanding the web, but so were a lot of corporations at the time. Surprisingly, the Air Farce was one of the first CBC entities to embrace the web. They have a ton of variations on their name registered, and was one of the first sites to host video clips of the show.

I say “surprisingly” because you would normally never put “Air Farce” and “on the cutting edge of technology” in the same thought.