.ca domain registration in Pakistan

Price and how to order

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Search any name on the availability checker, or go straight to the order form. We confirm availability before registering, you pay in rupees by bank transfer, Raast, JazzCash or Easypaisa, and the domain is registered in your own name.

Who uses .ca

• Canadian citizens of the age of majority, including Pakistani-Canadians
• Permanent residents who live in Canada for more than 183 days a year
• Companies incorporated under Canadian federal or provincial law
• Overseas brands that hold a Canadian trademark registration
• Canadian schools, hospitals, charities and government bodies

A .ca name only makes sense for a Pakistani business that already sells into Canada under a brand it has registered with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO). Picture a Sialkot sports-goods exporter or a Karachi rice brand whose Canadian trademark is the word MARK: it can hold mark.ca or mark-canada.ca in its own name and show Canadian buyers a Canadian address on the web. We also help Pakistani-Canadian citizens who want a .ca registered in their own name; permanent residents can do the same as long as they still spend more than 183 days a year in Canada. We check availability first, you pay us in rupees by bank transfer, Raast, JazzCash or Easypaisa, and we aim to file through our registrar partner the same working day the payment arrives.

Eligibility and rules

Who may register: Restricted. The registrant must meet one of CIRA's eighteen Canadian Presence Requirement categories, such as Canadian citizen (of the age of majority), permanent resident who is ordinarily resident in Canada (more than 183 days in the previous twelve months and in every year of the registration), or a corporation formed under Canadian federal or provincial law. A person or business outside Canada qualifies only as the owner of a trade-mark registered under Canada's Trade-marks Act, and then only for a .ca name that consists of or includes the exact word component of that registered mark.

• Names are 2 to 63 characters long and may use the letters a to z, the digits 0 to 9 and the hyphen; a hyphen cannot start or end the name. For accented names the four-character xn-- prefix counts towards the 63-character limit.
• French accented characters (é, è, ê, ë, à, â, æ, ç, î, ï, ô, œ, ù, û, ü, ÿ) are allowed. All accented variants of one base name form an administrative bundle that is reserved for the same registrant and must sit with the same registrar under the same contact.
• Registration must go through a CIRA certified registrar, never directly with CIRA. The registrant must accept the CIRA Registrant Agreement within five days of registration or the name is released again.
• At expiry CIRA renews the name for one year and bills the registrar. The registrar's auto-renew grace period can run up to 45 days, and the registrar may switch the name off during it. After that the name is deleted and enters a 30-day redemption grace period during which the website and email stop working. If it is not redeemed, it goes to the To Be Released (TBR) list and is released through a TBR session every Wednesday at 19:00 UTC; only registrars can take part in a TBR session.
• A change of registrar is blocked for 60 days after the registration date and for 60 days after any previous change of registrar. A successful registrar transfer adds one year to the term, capped at ten years in total.
• WHOIS privacy is free and automatic only for individual categories (for example Canadian citizen or permanent resident). Non-individual categories, including corporations and trademark holders, show their contact details unless the registrar offers its own privacy service. CIRA may at any time run Registrant Information Validation and ask for proof; a domain that fails is suspended for up to 30 days and then cancelled.

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