Your own website domain name Canada

Domain name registration over a decade ago was a more specialized business with very few offering you the ability to purchase and register your own domain name. The industry with domain name registration has exploded since those days and now you will find hundreds upon thousands of different registrars offering you the ability to register a domain name. The most popular Top Level Domain (TLD) extension is the .com extension, and almost everyone will pick that extension up if available.

What about country specific TLD domain extensions? They are available too and some of the options you have is to purchase .us domain names if you are a United States (USA) company, or if you are based in the UK you can purchase a .co.uk domain extension. Also available for the Canadians just north of the states is their own .ca domain name extension. The .ca domain extensions is simply for all who want to register their site for a canadian domain name.

The controlling company for canadian domain names (.ca) is CIRA. This simply stands for the Canadian Internet Registration Authority. They control and monitor all activity with .ca domain names and if you decide to register a domain canada, you will receive an email from them after stating your registration has been processed and everything is complete.

Can you simply just go to any cheap domain name registrar and purchase a Canadian domain name or does the company who is selling you the ability to register the domain have to be located in Canada? The answer to this is that any registrar will work provided that you find on their website that they actually offer ca domain names. Not every registrar currently offers the ability to register canadian domain names, but many do. One thing you will want to ensure when proceeeding with the domain registration is that the currency they are showing you is in canadian or us dollars. Since the Canadian dollar at the time of this writing, is lower than the US dollar you will be paying more than the posted cost if they are showing it in US dollars.