.ca Canada domain registration

What are the registration requirements for registering a .CA domain?

In order to register a .ca domain you should:

- Be a Canadian resident or national (individual or entity), or

- Own a Registered Trademark in Canada.

If you do not meet any of these requirements, you can apply for a trademark registration in Canada with our company here. The registration process takes approximately 1 year, and only after the trademark is registered, we will be able to register your .ca domain. If you cannot wait for the trademark to be registered, we might be able to offer another solution. In this case please contact us via email to [email protected] and provide us the name of the domain you wish to register and the purpose of the website.

What is the minimum registration term allowed? The minimum registration term for “.ca” extensions is 1 year. Do you offer Trustee for this extension? No, we don’t offer Trustee service for this extension. Does this extension support third level domains? No, it does not support, you can register only domains with “.ca” extension, it is not supported domains like “.com.ca”. Is there an official whois server for .CA domains? Yes, it is whois.cira.ca Who is the registry that manages this domain extension? The authority in charge of managing this extension is “CIRA.CA” Does .CA support IDN characters? Yes, it supports the following characters: é, ë, ê, è, â, à, æ, ô, œ, ù, û, ü, ç, î, ï, ÿ. What are the minimum and maximum length of characters? The minimum is 2 and the maximum is 50 What characters .CA extension supports? It is possible to register the letters a to z, the numbers 0 to 9 and hyphen “-“. In addition, the following characters are allowed: é, ë, ê, è, â, à, æ, ô, œ, ù, û, ü, ç, î, ï, ÿ. However, it is not possible to register domains that begin or end with a hyphen “-“ or have it located in the third and fourth positions.   https://www.atakdomain.com/en/domain-registration/canada/ca