CIRA Says .CA Registry Growing Fast

March 2005

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (cira.ca) announced this week that the 500,000th .ca domain name has been registered. The CIRA says the domain name is stronger than ever since the company began administering the then-60,000-strong registry in December 2000.

In 2004, the number of .ca domain names registered increased by 24 percent from 389,216 in 2003, to 482,684. Meanwhile, the number of .com domain names registered by Canadians saw a smaller 10 percent increase from 1,043,043 in 2003 to 1,144,801 in 2004. Already some 17,316 new .ca domain names have been registered since January 1, 2005, averaging an estimated 275 new registrations per day.

"The ongoing success of .ca points to the value that Canadian individuals, businesses, and associations see in .ca domain names. The .ca names work anywhere in the world and are recognized as Canadian," says Bernard Turcotte, CIRA's president and CEO. "They are easy to register and can cost less than .coms when registered through many of our 80-plus CIRA certified registrars."