CA at a Glance - History and Facts
- As of May 2007, more than 835,000 .CA domain names have been registered
- May 14th, 1987, the .CA country code domain name was allocated by Jon Postel, operator of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), to John Demco of the University of British Columbia (UBC) on John Demco conceived and managed the .CA registry until December 2000 on a volunteer basis.
- The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) assumed operation of the .CA ccTLD on December 1, 2000
- .CA domain names were free to register until 2000; the websites associated with many of these domain names were among the earliest Canadian content on the World Wide Web
- .CA is the 13th most popular country code domain in the world
- .CA is the seventh most represented extension on Google, behind only .UK for country codes
- 71% percent of Canadians prefer using the .CA extension over all others
- More than 90 certified registrars for .CA (including Webnames.ca) are currently in operation
