| Country: | Canada |
| Continent: | North America |
| Capital: | Ottawa |
| Location: | 45°23'N 75°40'W |
| Area: | 9984670 |
| Population: | 33759742 |
| Time Zone: | (UTC−3.5 to −8) - Summer (UTC−2.5 to −7) |
| Calling Code: | 1 |
Zone Info
.CA is the official country code Top-Level-Domain (ccTLD) of Canada
Zone Use
.CA domain space should be developed as a key public resource for the social and economic development of all Canadians.
Characters
- Minimum: 2
- Maximum: 50
- Letters and numbers
- Hyphens ("-"), however not at the beginning or directly in front of the TLD
IDN info
It is now possible for French .CA domain names to be spelled with the language’s full range of characters and ligatures: é, ë, ê, è, â, à, æ, ô, œ, ù, û, ü, ç, î, ï, ÿ.
One of the most important developments by CIRA is the creation of a bundling policy that removes the necessity to register every special-character variant of an existing .CA domain. Whoever registers, or has already registered, a specific domain, is automatically granted an exclusive right to register all of its variants, but is under no obligation to do so. For example, only the owner of cira.ca will have the right to register cïra.ca and cîra.ca.
The ownercontact has to be the same for all of the domains which belong to a bundle.
Restrictions
- The Ownercontact and Admincontact must match the Canadian Presence Requirements (CPR).
Please see http://cira.ca/assets/Documents/Legal/Registrants/CPR.pdf - A maximum number of 6 nameservers may be specified.
