The owner, administrative and technical contact must match the Canadian Presence Requirements (CPR)

Successful domain registration via RCP or XML API or REST API requires:

• Registrant contact containing:
  • a local presence (address) in Canada (no trustee service available)
    • The Registrant name must be the official name of the entity that will hold the domain name registration, without any abbreviations.
    • A Sole Proprietor should be registered under the legal type category of Canadian citizen or permanent resident.
  • The "state" field in all handles is mandatory
    • The document contains the valid state/province codes that you must use to register a .ca domain
      OR
  • a valid trademark in Canada
    • Private individual: the owner, admin, and tech handle must be the same.
    • Corporation: the legal form must be mentioned in the owner handle. (ltd, BV, GMBH). 
      Note: Without the legal form present in the name, the 'Corporation' legal type can't be selected.
• Legal Type (selected in RCP or API)
• Two or more nameservers or a nameserver group (Nameservers should have unique IP addresses)

After registering, the Registry (CIRA) will send a mail informing the registrant about the terms and conditions of the .ca domain name.

NOTE:
If in "additional data" (*.ca):

• If legal type is set to >TRADEMARK<, then the owner contact must also contain the trademark number (TMAXXXXXX) within the company name field (e.g. company name: Company Name - TMA123456)
• If legal type is set to >Canadian Citizen< or >Permanent Resident of Canada<, the owner and administrative contact needs to be same.

IMP.: Regarding Abuse Notifications from the Registry
If the registrant has received an email from CIRA notifying that the domain is identified as abusive and will be suspended, they can perform the verification directly at the Registry
Read more about it in this article. For domains suspended due to abuse, registry will sent a direct email to the registrant and ask them to upload their validation documents in order to unsuspend the domain.

Can be initiated from RCP or XML API or REST API 
A successful transfer request is processed immediately by the registry and does not require approval from the losing registrar.

The following details are required:

• Authorisation code

• Trademark (yes/no)

• Type owner (Citizen / Organisation / Government)

• • Handle owner
    
    • a local presence (address) in Canada (no trustee service available)
      or
    • a valid trademark in Canada
      
      • Private individual: the owner, admin, and tech handle must be the same.
      • Corporation: the legal form must be mentioned in the owner handle. (ltd, BV, GMBH). 
        Note: Without the legal form present in the name, the 'Corporation' legal type can't be selected.

• Handle administrative contact

• Handle technical contact

• Handle billing contact

• Nameservers (Nameservers should have unique IP addresses)

• External authorization code request - via RCP (Reseller Control Panel) or XML API or REST API 

Owner change (trade)

A change of ownership can be done by replacing the owner contact in the control panel. After saving the changes, the change is processed in real time. It may take up to five minutes for the whois to update.

Other update

• requested via RCP or XML API or REST API
• processed realtime

It may take up to five minutes for the WHOIS to update.

Note: Nameservers should have unique IP addresses

Delete

• Requested via RCP or XML API or REST API

To delete domains immediately, please use skip_soft_quarantine=true in deletion request via REST API. In case of deletion request sent without flag 'skip_soft_quarantine=true', the domain will be kept in SoftQuarantine until expiration date+ soft quarantine period is over.

Restore / reactivate

• Restore - via RCP or XML API or REST API 
• quarantine periods can be found under
  Detailed extension information > Technical information > Quarantine period