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would love to transfer my .ca to cloudflare, it’s the last domain I have before everything is centralized in one spot. Been waiting years now!
Another +1 - remaining on Namecheap until this is supported sadly
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+1 to 
TLDs, give it a vote 
Adding my voice to the chorus of people who would very much like .ca registrar support.
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We have over 100 .ca domains to move over to Cloudflare!! They are already in Cloudflare for DNS, would love to hit transfer and make it official!!! DNSSec is SOOOOOOOO nice and easy when its all on Cloudflare… So many Canadians love you guys!
Just adding my name (and vote) to the list of those who would like to see this implemented.
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Adding another voice and vote. Been wating forever for Cloudflare Registrar .ca support. Be nice to get a real update from the registrar team, what the roadblock actually is.
The roadblock will be the extremely stringent rules for .ca domains, not Cloudflare’s end.
The main issue will be residency related. Cloudflare is not a Canadian company, nor is its infrastructure located in Canada. Without Canadian residency, you are not allowed to sell .ca domains, period.
This is explained here on the CIRA side, this policy won’t be changing ever.
Cloudflare would need a canadian subsiduary plus canadian operations to qualify. It’s likely not worth that entire separate business unit just to sell some $10/yr .ca registrations.
Cloudflare does have infrastructure in Canada does it not? They advertise infrastructure here. And other US based companies have managed to pull it off. Namecheap for example.
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Adding my name here as well. I would rather give my money to Cloudflare and have all domains here.
Everyone says to use Cloudflare so I really want to use Cloudflare! What’s the hold up? Is there an issue with CIRA? Do you need us .ca domain owners to have a polite word with them?
It’s really painful seeing that you support .boo and .soy but can’t figure out .ca with no end in sight.
We take it on faith that there are logistical and possibly cost or even regulatory challenges to working with each TLD. The problem is that the combination of seeing .ca on basically every major registrar except Cloudflare with relatively vague/hand-wavy explanations from your side makes people who have consolidated 98% of their domains to your service see red. If [insert major service here] can do it, surely Cloudflare can do it, too.
Here’s the thing: if you have to charge more to support .ca domains, I suspect that the folks backing the 2nd-most upvoted would be willing to pay to ease their consolidation efforts. After all, the common notion of “at cost” literally means “paying what it costs [in this context]”; if it costs $5 more per domain compared to [service I’m trying to escape] then as a person who has lived in the world, I understand that “at cost” now includes that $5. You have earned enough brand trust that if you put a note on .ca domains saying why they cost more to register and that you’re vaguely “working on it” then nobody here is going to be sad. It means that we’d have the option of paying more to consolidate, if that’s important to us. For those who don’t want to pay the premium, they can choose to wait.
Right now, it’s the worst outcome.
If I’m missing something, please feel free to open the kimono on this topic in a more satisfying way. For example, what are the real cost issues, with numbers? As Canadians, is there someone or some organization or some politician that we can contact to encourage them to move things along?
Because right now, it just seems like this is a WONTFIX dressed up as a PDI. I’ve personally been patiently waiting since 2021 and I know others have been waiting longer. In this time, your company has built an entire cloud services development infrastructure. You can’t convince us that supporting .ca is somehow beyond reach to the degree than an ETA is impossible.
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I came here to see if this was being discussed. Needing to transfer my .ca domains somewhere else then point to here is dumb when all of my other .com’s are here.
It’s disappointing that support for registration of .ca’s is taking so long. I find it hard to believe that there would be this much red tape to overcome to allow customers to register/transfer domains into such a large reputable company such as Cloudflare. Cloudflare let’s get this as a prioritized tld to support.
Cloudflare really needs to get on with supporting .ca domains. Why is this taking so long to impliment?
Once again, I’m renewing all my .ca domains elsewhere 
I completely agree with @pjforde1978 post above. Whatever CF’s “at cost” means (including extra added costs to support .ca), we’d be willing to pay it to get everything consolidated. Just be transparent and share some info with us.
This following was posted in the cloudflare blog over 3 years ago. “In the coming months we will be adding even more new extensions, with a focus on country-codes such as .de , .in , .ca, and .au to name just a few.”
Also, not too long after that on TLD policies page (TLD Policies), where they list all supported TLDs, recently added, and available soon, .ca was on the available soon list for a while but then it was removed.
My company has a few hundred .ca domains. I’ve already transferred a few hundred non .ca TLDs to cloudflare registrar. I have asked our (enterprise) CF rep on multiple occasions when .ca support is coming but always get the run around.
Please just share some more info to set expectations. Is this ever going to happen…
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As a Canadian web agency, we’ve been dealing with .ca domains for more than 15 years. We used a ton of registrars over the years, and we were sooo happy when Cloudflare announced they were becoming one! All our DNS zones are there nowadays, so it was only logical to also have domains there. Unfortunately, .ca domains are still unsupported to this day, and for us it’s about half of all the domains we own for our clients - so it’s a big chunk!
That being said, I can see a few reasons why they still don’t support it. The .ca domains have a few added complexities that surely make them harder to support for a registrar:
• The Canadian Presence Requirements mean registrars have to verify the registrant has ties to Canada.
• CIRA (the governing body for .ca) has specific privacy and WHOIS rules, different from most other TLDs.
• Registrars need to go through a unique accreditation process with CIRA, adding extra steps.
And since Cloudflare isn’t making money from domains, they might not prioritize adding support for .ca TLD…
For anyone interested, I strongly suggest trying CanSpace. Their platform is great, and .ca domains are just CAD $12.99 at the moment. That’s actually cheaper than Cloudflare’s .com that are billed at around CAD $14.50 at the moment. Right now we’re exclusively using Cloudflare and CanSpace as registrars.
Hope this helps!