The policies and administration of the .ca domain name will be set by CIRA and governed by Canadian law. The gTLDs are managed in the United States under American law. An applicant is a party interested in registering a .CA domain name, or a party who has already applied for, but has not yet been granted or refused, a .CA domain name. A domain name may be registered for a period of 1 to 10 years. CIRA will charge the registrar a fee dependent on the registration term.
Registrars are then free to set their own fee structure.
If CIRA validates a registration request and the requested domain name is available for registration by an applicant who is not already a registrant, the applicant will be required to complete the registration procedure, including accepting the Registrant Agreement, at CIRA's secure website. Once a person is registered as a registrant in the CIRA system, it will be fairly simple to register future domain names through a registrar. CA domain name from a minimum of 2 characters up to 50 characters. For a complete list, Click Here. This query service will be provided at no cost to the user.