.ca TLD audit hub
Canada ccTLD — administered by CIRA with tight Canadian-presence requirements.
The .ca TLD is administered by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) and has a strong Canadian-presence requirement: registrants must be Canadian citizens, permanent residents, Indigenous peoples, or Canadian-incorporated entities, with a small number of additional eligible categories. CIRA actively audits registrant data and will revoke domains that fail to meet the criteria. There are roughly 3 million active registrations. The registry has high DNSSEC adoption and CIRA offers a registry-lock service that is widely used by financial institutions and government suppliers. SEO treats .ca as a strong Canada-bound geotargeting signal, useful for Canadian-market commerce. Canadian privacy law (PIPEDA, plus Quebec's Law 25) imposes specific obligations on commercial sites. Email deliverability is on parity with major gTLDs and Canadian ISPs (Bell, Rogers, Telus) participate in the standard sender-reputation ecosystem. Pricing is mid-tier.