You can now register your .CA domain names properly in both official languages CIRA has introduced support for the full range of French characters. Every French character variant of a registered .CA domain name automatically becomes part of an administrative bundle. • For example, the bundle for cira.ca includes variants such as cirà.ca, çira.ca, cîra.ca, çïrâ.ca, and all other combinations of accented French and standard ASCII characters. • The following French characters are available for .CA domain names: é ë ê è â à æ ô œ ù û ü ç î ï ÿ What if I don’t want a whole bundle of domain names I just want one? • There is no need to register all the .CA variants in an administrative bundle. As long as you hold one of the names in an administrative bundle, all the others will be reserved for you. • For example, if you hold cirà.ca, then the variants cira.ca and cirâ.ca are reserved for you and no one else is able to register them. • Although these domain names are reserved for you, they are not active. The only way to make these domain names active and to resolve on the Internet will be to register them. Registration of .CA domain names in a bundle • Each name you wish to use must be registered individually, and each registered name has its own lifecycle. • All domain names within an administrative bundle must be registered by the same Registrant and with the same Registrar. • Once a domain name is registered, all the variants of that domain names in the administrative bundle are reserved, and cannot be registered by anyone except the existing Registrant for the domain name. Transferring an administrative bundle of .CA domain names • If you choose to transfer one domain name in an administrative bundle, all the variants of the domain name within the administrative bundle have to be transferred at the same time. • A separate transfer request must be initiated for each of the registered domain names in the administrative bundle. Until all the registered domain names in the administrative bundle have been transferred, any in progress transfers will be classified as pending. If all the domain names in the administrative bundle aren’t transferred within five days, the transfer will be cancelled.