Want to know more about the CREA Data Distribution Facility (DDF)?
Go to the DDF page on the CREA website on REALTOR Link® (REALTOR Link®>CREA>Technology Products>Data Distribution Facility (DDF) Button) and check out the videos explaining the three modules of the DDF and read FAQs and updates.
Here’s what you’ll find:
CREA partners with NAR in its application for .REALTOR Top Level Domain Extention
The Canadian Real Estate Association partners with the National Association of REALTORS® in its application for .REALTOR Top Level Domain Extension.
The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) has entered into an exclusive partnership agreement with the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) that will result in CREA members being able to operate websites using the .REALTOR Top Level Domain (TLD).
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization that controls the creation and distribution of domain names globally, has approved a procedure for establishing a new set of TLDs. If the NAR application is successful, CREA’s partnership arrangement will provide CREA members an alternative to the familiar .ca and .com Only licensed real estate professionals who are members of CREA and subscribe to a strict Code of Ethics have the right to call themselves a REALTOR® in Canada, and only REALTORS® will be allowed to use the new .REALTOR TLD.
Additionally, in order to protect its MLS® trademark, CREA has applied for the .MLS TLD.
ICANN is expected to make a decision on the application some time in 2013.
More details will be made available once ICANN approves the application.