Just over ten years ago, you would have been more hard pressed to find companies offering domain name registration as it was a more specialized business for select companies. Since then, the domain name industry has blossomed and currently their is in existence of hundreds to thousands of service providers offering the chance to pick up and register your own domain name. The one domain name extensions almost everyone will pick up first if given the option is the .com extension which is what every web surfer will naturally type in first when getting on the web.
Do TLD domain name extensions exist that are specific for different countries? Does this benefit your decision on a Wordpress Hosting provider? Yes they exist and you can purchase everything from .co.uk for United Kingdom (UK) based companies, to even .us domain names for United States companies. For those living in Canada, you also have available your own domain name extension which is the .ca domain. Anyone who wishes to register their site for a canadian audience and to show they are in the canadian market will register a .ca domain extension. Domain names have no effect on who you select for your wordpress hosting. They just manage what the user types to get to your wordpress site. The hosting is taken care of seperately.
The controlling company for canadian domain names (.ca) is CIRA. This simply stands for the Canadian Internet Registration Authority. Their responsiblity is to oversee activity related to .ca domain name registration and when you decide to register a domain canada, an email will be sent to the administrative contact email indicating the registration process has been completed and you own the domain name.
Can you simply just go to any domain name registrar and purchase a Canadian domain name or does the company who is selling you the ability to register the domain have to be located in Canada? The answer to this is that any registrar will work provided that you find on their website that they actually offer ca domain names. Not every registrar currently offers the ability to register canadian domain names, but many do. Before making the purchase of your domain name, just double check that the price showing on the website is in Canadian Dollars instead of US Dollars. With the rate the conversion is at today, you will be paying more than the posted rate if it is in US Currency.
