I think you'll better point your miner to stratum+tcp://de.kano.is:3333 and the other one as fallback (second pool entry)
Just ping the pool-server in the topic (us.kano.is, de.kano.is,...) and take the one with the lowest latency.
Which from france should be de.kano.is I think.
You don't need to create any workers. They'll be created as soon as you point your miner with your username: username.workername (in your case for example "ctr200hp.worker1") to the pool.
Oh and I think spaces in workernames are not support. So "worker x" would be wrong.
Thank's a lot for your reply, usefull!
