Canada uses .ca, which requires a local presence to register. Below: who operates each namespace, what its rules actually constrain, the accredited local registrars, and how global registrars compare on price where we hold a sourced figure.
Of the 11 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, none printed a .ca price together with its currency and tax treatment, so no local registrar is ranked; each is listed below with what its page showed. CIRA accredits 34 registrars to sell .ca; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .ca in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in Canada, not a recommendation in it.
Registrars accredited by CIRA (Canadian Internet Registration Authority)
These 34 companies are accredited by the Canada registry to sell .ca. Every column is a fact the registry publishes, read from its accredited-registrar list on 2026-09-29. Listed in the registry's own order.
Registrars accredited by CIRA (Canadian Internet Registration Authority), with website and whether the registry lists each as supporting DNSSEC. No prices and no scores: none of these registrars has been tested by this site.
Registrar
Website
DNSSECas the registry publishes it
CanSpace Solutions
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
Web Hosting Canada
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
Namespro.ca
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
Register.ca
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
Namecheap
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
Rebel.ca
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
GoDaddy
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
Funio
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
Webnames.ca
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
FullHost
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
Hover
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
HostPapa
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
Grape
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
Only Domains
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
Namesilo
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
Dynadot
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
COOLCOM
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
Website.com
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
PlanetHoster
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
4GoodHosting.com
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
easyDNS
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
DomainePlus.com
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
Hosted In Canada
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
Lexicom.ca
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
Internic.ca
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
Dot.ca
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
ZiD Internet
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
FastWebServer
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
BlackSun
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
CanReg
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
Réseau Internet Québec - Registraire RIQ
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
CanadianDomainRegistry.ca
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
Vaxxine.com
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
Netfirms
-the registry publishes no website for this registrar
Not published
0 of 34 are listed by the registry as supporting DNSSEC. “Not published” means the registry does not list that registrar as supporting it, which is not the same as the registrar not supporting it. We have not tested any of these registrars, so nothing here carries a price, a score or a ranking. Comparing them on price and service is work we have not done, and saying which is better would be invention.
Which registrars have a English / French site, bill in CAD and sell .ca?
Three conditions decide whether a registrar can be recommended in Canada rather than merely to the world from it: an interface in an official language, billing in the local currency, and selling the local namespace. All three must hold. No registrar we track currently meets all three here.
Bills in USD only. "All prices are in USD" is a positive statement that no other billing currency is offered, so this is a recorded 'no' on every non-USD currency rather than an absence.
Offers CAD in a currency selector, but whether the card is charged in CAD or in USD after a conversion is not established. Nine currencies in the selector, which is more than any other registrar tracked here. Whether the card is charged in the selected currency or in USD after a conversion is NOT established: https://www.dynadot.com/community/help/question/change-currency was read on the same date and says nothing about how charges are made or about an exchange rate. Until that is established these do not pass the currency condition, because the condition exists to protect a buyer from a conversion fee and a display-only currency does not.
Bills in USD only. "All pricing is per year and in USD." is a positive statement that no other billing currency is offered, as Porkbun's is; recorded as a 'no' on every non-USD currency.
Read billing in EUR and PKR and BRL and ARS and COP and TRY and INR and UAH and PLN and CZK and IDR and PHP and SEK and DKK; CAD has not been established either way.
Offers CAD in a currency selector, but whether the card is charged in CAD or in USD after a conversion is not established. Thirteen currencies in the selector (AU$, R$, CA$, ¥, €, £, ₹, MX$, ₱, ﷼, ฿, ₺, USD $). Whether the card is charged in the selected currency is not established by the page, so none passes the currency condition.
A dash is ignorance, not a failing grade: it means we have not established that condition either way. Several registrars render their language and currency switchers in JavaScript, which the read behind this table cannot see, so we record nothing rather than a false “no”. A currency that appears only in a display selector does not count as billing in that currency, because a converted price charged in dollars is exactly the case this condition exists to catch.
Where to buy a .ca: CIRA-accredited registrars, read from their own storefronts
CIRA's .CA Marketplace, which CIRA says lists all .CA Certified Registrars, was read on 2026-09-29 (34 registrars once "View all certified providers" was opened), and 11 storefronts were opened from it. GoDaddy and Namecheap refused the read, Hover and easyDNS show US dollars, and HostPapa shows a bare "$". CanSpace, WHC and Rebel print .ca in Canadian dollars, but no page read states whether GST/HST is included, so no store is ranked.
Ordered by the standing .ca price each registrar's own page printed on 2026-09-29: the renewal where the page states one, else the regular price, VAT included (added at 5% where the page states prices excluding it). Price only: this site has not tested their support, uptime or transfers, and none of them carries a score.
Read, not ranked
A local-language storefront, but no .ca price with its VAT treatment on the page read.
CCanSpace SolutionsThe page prints .ca at $11.99/yr in Canadian dollars but states no GST/HST treatment on the page read.
WWHCThe page prints .ca at C$14.99 with C$10.99 beside it but states no GST/HST treatment on the page read.
HHoverHover prices .ca in US dollars ($16.99), not Canadian dollars.
EeasyDNSNo .ca price on the page read, and it displays US dollars.
HHostPapaThe page prints .ca at $19.99 with $25.99 renewal, but a bare "$" does not establish Canadian dollars and no GST/HST treatment is stated.
Not read on 2026-09-29: GoDaddy (HTTP 403 "Access Denied" on 2026-09-29. Nothing read.); Namecheap (HTTP 403 Cloudflare "Just a moment..." challenge on 2026-09-29. Nothing read.). Unread is a fact about our read, not a finding about the registrar.
Best options in Canada
No registrar we track meets all three local conditions in Canada.
Porkbun, Namecheap, GoDaddy, Dynadot, Spaceship, Hover, NameSilo, Gandi, OVHcloud, IONOS, AWS Route 53 sell .ca, but none of them has been established to bill in CAD or to run a English or French-language storefront. Where we have simply not checked, the table above says so rather than counting it against them.
For .ca itself, the registry’s own accredited registrars are the route, and they are listed on this page above. We have not tested them, so we name them rather than rank them.
Verified .com renewal of $11.08. Not the cheapest .com we verify: Spaceship renews at $10.18, 9% less. Porkbun is the pick here for catalogue breadth, not for price. WHOIS privacy: free, included by default.
Buying a gTLD through an English-language registrar that bills in dollars is a real and common choice, so it is named with the trade stated rather than dropped. It is not a recommendation in Canada: the conditions it misses are in the column above.
Business use, globally
Namecheap
Support channels: 24/7 live chat, ticket support, knowledge base.
Developers, globally
Cloudflare Registrar
Industry-leading anycast DNS with deep developer tooling. Public API documented.
These two are the site’s global picks and are the same on every country page, which is why they are labelled globally and sit outside the table above. Nothing about a registrar’s API or its support channels changes at a border; what does change is language, billing currency and whether it can sell the local namespace, and that is what the eligibility table measures.
Local presence: Yes: Canadian Presence Requirements (CPR). Registrants must fall into one of 18 eligibility categories (Canadian citizens, permanent residents, corporations registered in Canada, Indigenous peoples of Canada, etc.).
DNSSEC: Signed at the root: Supported and recommended; CIRA offers free DNSSEC for all .ca domains
IDN: Supported in English and French character sets
CIRA also operates the Canadian Shield free public DNS resolver and publishes anonymized DNS data publicly.
Purpose: Canada's national ccTLD, administered by CIRA.
Eligibility: Canadian Presence Requirements (CPR): registrant must fit one of 18 categories (Canadian citizen 18+, permanent resident, federally/provincially registered corporation, Indigenous peoples of Canada, registered trademark holder of the .ca string, federal or provincial government, etc.). CIRA audits CPR declarations.
Pricing fetched from each registrar's own pricing page on the date shown. Local registrars may bill in CAD and add VAT/GST/sales tax on top.
Cloudflare Registrar does not sell .ca. Hover (via Tucows, CIRA-certified) sells .ca and is the strongest CAD-invoiced option we track. Trademark holders register under CPR category 13 and must list the exact mark; the domain string must match the trademarked word.
Namespace map
What you can register under .ca
The Public Suffix List records 15 registrable namespaces under .ca.
Registrable namespaces under .ca from the Public Suffix List, with which of the registrars this site tracks sell each one and the cheapest renewal price we have verified.
Operator: Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) Autorité Canadienne pour les enregistrements Internet (ACEI) · .ca signed in the root zone (2026-09-28)
A namespace no tracked registrar sells is not a namespace you cannot register: most country-code registries delegate to their own accredited registrars, listed above where we have the registry's list. It is also not a namespace anyone may register - registries reserve some for schools, government, health services or licensed providers, and this table states eligibility only where we read it from the registry itself.
Verified and sample pricing per registrar for this TLD, with first-year, renewal, ten-year cost and the date each figure was checked
Registrar
First-year
Renewal
10-year cost
WHOIS privacy
Last checked
(verified price)
Spaceship
$9.08
$10.18
$100.70
Free
2026-09-02
(verified price)
Dynadot
$10.88
$10.88
$108.80
Free
2026-09-28
(verified price)
Porkbun
$11.08
$11.08
$110.80
Free
2026-09-28
(verified price)
OVHcloud
$9.20
$14.69
$141.41
Available; contact data red…
2026-09-28
(verified price)
AAmazon Route 53
$16.00
$16.00
$160.00
Free, with exceptions
2026-09-29
(verified price)
NNameSilo
$17.29
$17.29
$172.90
Free
2026-09-28
(verified price)
Namecheap
$11.28
$18.48
$177.60
Free, with exceptions
2026-08-19
(verified price)
Hover
$18.99
$18.99
$189.90
Free, with exceptions
2026-09-28
(verified price)
NName.com
$12.99
$19.99
$192.90
Available (Whois Privacy) o…
2026-09-28
(verified price)
IONOS
$1.00
$20.00
$181.00
Available; contact data red…
2026-09-29
(verified price)
Gandi
$11.00
$38.38
$356.42
Free, with exceptions
2026-09-28
Compared across the 11 registrars whose .com price we have read ourselves.
Most global registrars price domains in USD; local registrars often invoice in CAD.
Can a registrar we track handle Canada?
.ca is sold by 10 of the registrars whose prices we verify, renewing from $9.18: less than the cheapest verified .com at $10.18.
At $9.18 a year, .ca is 22nd of 295 by price among the extensions we verify: $1.00 less than the cheapest verified .com. Registering locally costs less here than registering the default.
Canada ccTLDs and whether a registrar we verify sells each one
Renewals are all-in and per year, at the cheapest registrar we verify for that extension, checked 2026-09-29. The .com reference is the cheapest verified .com renewal ($10.18). "Listed" counts registrars our country notes record as selling the extension without a price we have read ourselves.
What this page does not tell you: how the registrars based in Canada compare. We list 34 of them by name only, no prices, no scores, no hands-on testing, so any claim here that a local registrar is cheaper, better supported or easier to pay would be invention. Where local billing in Canadian Dollar (CAD), local-language support, or a registry rule requires a local registrar, that is a reason to use one, and comparing them is work we have not done. Canada also applies a local-presence or nexus requirement to at least one of its ccTLDs: see the registry rules above before assuming eligibility.
FAQ
What is the best domain registrar in Canada?+
Of the 11 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, none printed a .ca price together with its currency and tax treatment, so no local registrar is ranked; each is listed below with what its page showed. CIRA accredits 34 registrars to sell .ca; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .ca in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in Canada, not a recommendation in it.
Do I need a local presence to register a .ca domain?+
Yes: Canadian Presence Requirements (CPR). Registrants must fall into one of 18 eligibility categories (Canadian citizens, permanent residents, corporations registered in Canada, Indigenous peoples of Canada, etc.).
Which global registrars sell .ca?+
Porkbun, Namecheap, GoDaddy, Dynadot, Spaceship, Hover, NameSilo, Gandi, OVHcloud, IONOS, AWS Route 53. Cloudflare Registrar does not sell .ca. Hover (via Tucows, CIRA-certified) sells .ca and is the strongest CAD-invoiced option we track. Trademark holders register under CPR category 13 and must list the exact mark; the domain string must match the trademarked word.
Which currency are domains billed in for users in Canada?+
Most global registrars bill in USD regardless of buyer location. Local registrars typically invoice in Canadian Dollar (CAD). Global registrars bill in USD. Canadian registrars (Hover, Webnames.ca, easyDNS, Rebel.com) bill in CAD with GST/HST itemised. Interac e-Transfer is supported at most Canadian-headquartered registrars but not at the global ones.
What payment methods work in Canada?+
Global registrars bill in USD. Canadian registrars (Hover, Webnames.ca, easyDNS, Rebel.com) bill in CAD with GST/HST itemised. Interac e-Transfer is supported at most Canadian-headquartered registrars but not at the global ones.
