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I received snail mail today from the Domain Registry of Canada. I thought it odd to receive mail as opposed to email so I thought they must have had difficulty reaching me by mail or perhaps there is a conflict with a previously registered domain name.

Upon opening the bill I was quite surprised to see a Domain Name Expiration Notice and the opportunity to send in my order by mail! I have registered domain names for years and just last month renewed 2 domain names online!

After reading the entire piece of paper (ok the front anyway) I have come to realize that the Domain Registry of Canada is NOT who I registered the domain with (I registered with my hosting company, but ultimately the domain is controlled by Canadian Internet Registration Authority or CIRA).

The Domain Registry of Canada would like me to TRANSFER my domain name to them and renew it… for $40 for one year. Crazy talk as I have a very reliable firm I have been using for years, who do not waste trees to send my renewals - and they charge $5 - $10 for a one year renewal!

The Domain Registry of Canada is abusing their power as a domain registrar by trolling the database for expiring domains and contacting the owners of these domains to transfer and renew their domains, when in reality these domain owners will be contacted by their own registrars shortly for a renewal.

Perhaps it is not illegal activity but it sure is shady. Many customers will be duped into believing they need to do this. Weigh in - have you been duped?

Absolutely fantastic! Google Analytics has a beta feature out that allows viewing of your web stats by day, week or month. Previous to this beta, if you chose a period of 3 months for example, you saw numbers for the entire 3 month chunk. Now if you were to choose a one year time period you would be able to see each month individually in the date graph.

In this first screenshot you can see where you would change the date view options from day to week to month:

How the first quarter of 2008 appears in day view:

And week view:

And finallly, month view:

Way to go Google! Now if date selection could just be a touch faster we’d be happy :-)

And yes I realize the quality of pictures here is not very good. I’ll have to get Jess the Intern to fix those up this afternoon :-)

Are you new to Google Analytics?

If so, check out the visual goodies I’ve been working on — “Google Analytics for Beginners” Youtube Videos.

I have to admit, the first one’s a bit shaky. Slowly, slowly, I’m getting better!