What is a registrant transfer?
CIRA (the Canadian Internet Registration Authority) requires that every .ca domain be part of a CIRA account. These accounts are referred to as a registrant account , with yourself or your organization as the registrant (owner) . If you have multiple .ca domains, you may have many different CIRA accounts, one per domain, or you may have all your domains in a single one, but the one thing that s certain is that you have one. With .ca domains, when a domain changes owners, instead of the information on the domain changing, the domain gets moved into the CIRA account of the new registrant.. A good way to think of a .ca domain is like money in a bank account, rather than like an object. When you write a check, the money gets moved by the bank into a new account, just like CIRA moves your domain from your registrant account into the new owner s registrant account. This is called a registrant transfer. Because the domain is transferred, an extra year is added to the registration period, whic
