To eHarmony Blog’s surprise, eHarmony rebrands itself with the maple leaf and the colours of Canada — eHarmony launched eHarmony.ca yesterday.
eHarmony Launches First Country Specific Website in Canada
PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 12 /CNW/ — eHarmony, the Internet’s #1 trusted relationship service, today announced the launch of a new Canadian website (www.eharmony.ca), the first country-specific site the company has introduced. eHarmony.ca will make it easier and more convenient for users living in Canada to register and subscribe to the service. Currently, Canadians represent the second largest group of registered users on eHarmony.com. . . Read rest of Lou Casale’s news release
eHarmony Blog is calling the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) tomorrow to find out whether they dropped the Canadian Presence Requirements rules and Canada now lets foreigners reap benefits from the .ca domain. (Wikipedia has an overview of the .ca presence requirements, if you care to know.)
Oh well, for eH’s sake, we hope it won’t be a dispute. Check out what happened to airbag.ca and typographi.ca. In contrast, Amazon.ca, eBay.ca and Yahoo.ca are Canadian companies.
P.S. Hmm. If eHarmony has Canadian presence after all (i.e., a business unit incorporated in Canada), well, eHarmony should have been collecting Goods and Services Tax (GST) from its Canadian customers. Since they are not doing this, that’s even a bigger violation, that of the Government of Canada’s Excise Tax Act.
Of course US residents can use the site, Karen, subject to prefunctory restrictions. Have a quick read of the 
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