CA Domain Information

You can compare a domain name with a toll-free phone number. From anywhere around the world, when someone dials your number (your domain name). The phone rings, and you answer (your website is shown). Then a dialog between the two is engaged (the visitor clicking links and looking through sections), until the line is closed (the visitor closes his browser). The different extensions (.ca, .com, .net, etc) can be compared to the different toll-free numbers, like 1-800, 1-877 or 1-888.

Our on-line application make registering a domain name very simple and quick. Type in the name that you want to register, fill-out the short application and that's it, we do the rest !

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In order to register a domain name, you have to satisfy the Canadian Presence Requirements for Registrants. Basicaly you have to be one of the following:

• Canadian citizen. (A canadian citizen at legal age of maturity according to their provincial laws).
• A permanent resident as defined in the Immigration Act (Canada) R.S.C. 1985, c.I-2.
• An executor, administrator or other legal representative of one of the above 2.
• A corporation under the laws of Canada or any province or territory of Canada.
• A trust established and subsisting under the laws of a province or territory of Canada.
• A partnership which is registered as a partnership under the laws of any province or territory of Canada.
• An unincorporated organization, association or club.
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No. Applications for the registration of domain names will only be accepted if they are admissible domain names in accordance with CIRA's Registration Rules, which are resumed here:

• Acceptable Characters: letters from a to z. (No accent of any kind is accepted. Domain names are not case sensitives, which means A = a). Numbers from 0 to 9. The Hyphen ( - ) character (it cannot be used at the end or beginning of the domain name)
• Lenght: A domain name can have a lenght of anything between two (2) and fifty (50) characters.
• Reserved Names: CIRA does not allow the following to be registered as a domain name under normal circumstances:
  (a) village.ca, hamlet.ca, town.ca, city.ca and ville.ca.
  (b) Any existing top level domain name (.com.ca, .net.ca, .org.ca, etc)
  (c) The names and all abbreviations of names of any Canadian provinces and territories as well as the names of major cities and landmarks.
  (d) Conflicting domain names: If someone tries to register a .on.ca when the .ca exists, they need consent from the owner of the .ca in order to register the .on.ca.
  (e) CIRA also reserves the right to refuse registration of any domain name they think is inacceptable under their own discretion.

Yes. ZiD.com accepts requests for the registration of 3rd and 4th level domain names under provincial, and territorial sub-domains as well as their official municipal sub-domains. To qualify such domain names must meet CIRA's requirements for the registration of domain names.

Provincial or territorial governments wishing to request that CIRA place additional constraints on the allocation of domain names under their respective provincial or territorial domain codes or wishing to take over the administration of their respective provincial or territorial domain codes, under the .ca domain, may do so but only after entering into a contractual arrangement with CIRA that is satisfactory to CIRA.