Who can register a .ca domain?
Registration is $8.73 and renewal $9.18 a year.
Who may register
Canadian Presence Requirements: citizen, permanent resident, Canadian-incorporated company, or holder of a Canadian trademark matching the name.
What it costs
| Registration | $8.73 / year |
|---|---|
| Renewal | $9.18 / year |
| Transfer | $8.98 |
| Smallest possible first bill | $8.73 |
Standard price from Porkbun. Premium and reserved names return the same registry answer as an ordinary free one, so every quote here is a floor rather than a price.
Source
Read from the registry's own policy page: https://www.cira.ca/en/canadian-presence-requirements-registrants/. Read on 2026-07-29.
Is a .ca name free?
Availability comes from the registry itself over RDAP, with a WHOIS fallback where a registry publishes no RDAP service. A throttled or unreachable registry is reported as unconfirmed rather than available. It is the one wrong answer that costs somebody money.
You can check from a terminal or from an assistant instead:
curl https://dotsweep.com/check/yourname.ca