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org">CIRA</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div>Canadian Internet Registration Authority</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Cira_logo_en.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Cira_logo_en.png/220px-Cira_logo_en.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="64" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Cira_logo_en.png/330px-Cira_logo_en.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Cira_logo_en.png/440px-Cira_logo_en.png 2x" data-file-width="587" data-file-height="170" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Abbreviation</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">CIRA</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_British_Columbia" title="University of British Columbia">University of British Columbia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Formation</th><td class="infobox-data note">1998-12-30</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data">Non-Soliciting</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Registration no.</th><td class="infobox-data">357494-6</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Legal status</th><td class="infobox-data">Active</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Purpose</th><td class="infobox-data">Authority for ccTLD .CA</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data">979 Bank Street, Suite 400</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Location</th><td class="infobox-data label"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ottawa,_Ontario" class="mw-redirect" title="Ottawa, Ontario">Ottawa, Ontario</a>, Canada</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Services</th><td class="infobox-data note">Management of .CA domain, Cybersecurity services, Registry services</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Official language </div></th><td class="infobox-data">English, French</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Key people</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Byron Holland</li><li>(President and CEO)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cira.ca">cira<wbr />.ca</a></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2872773#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Canadian Internet Registration Authority</b> (<b>CIRA</b>; <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">Autorité canadienne pour les enregistrements internet</i>, <b>ACEI</b>) is the organization that manages the <a href="/wiki/.ca" title=".ca">.ca</a> <a href="/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain" title="Country code top-level domain">country code top-level domain</a> (ccTLD) for Canada. Its offices are located at 979 Bank Street in <a href="/wiki/Ottawa" title="Ottawa">Ottawa, Ontario</a>, Canada. CIRA sets the policies and agendas that support Canada's internet community and Canada's involvement in international internet governance. It is a member-driven organization with membership open to all that hold a .ca domain. As of March 2023, there were more than 3.3 million active .ca domains.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Canadian_Internet_Registration_Authority&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Inception">Inception</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Canadian_Internet_Registration_Authority&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Inception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/.ca" title=".ca">.ca</a></div> <p>In May 1987, the Information Sciences Institute at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Southern_California" title="University of Southern California">University of Southern California</a>, delegated the <a href="/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain" title="Country code top-level domain">ccTLD</a> .ca to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_British_Columbia" title="University of British Columbia">University of British Columbia</a> (UBC) in <a href="/wiki/Vancouver" title="Vancouver">Vancouver</a>, British Columbia, Canada. The university was named the sponsoring delegation for .ca. John Demco, the university's computing facilities manager for the Department of Computer Science, would be its administrator and technical contact. For ten years, under his leadership, a group of volunteers managed the .ca domain. </p><p>In 1997, the Canadian internet community, part of an evolving and rapidly expanding internet, wanted changes with the administration of the .ca domain. After its annual conference, it formed the Canadian Domain Names Consultation Committee. After public consultations, the committee's recommendation was to form a private-sector, not-for-profit corporation to administer the .ca domain in Canada.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 30 December 1998, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority was incorporated, and in an 11 March 1999 letter, the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Canada" title="Government of Canada">Government of Canada</a> officially recognized CIRA as the authority to manage the .ca domain for Canada. On 9 May 2000, CIRA, the University of British Columbia, and the Government of Canada entered into an umbrella agreement that stated: "the .ca domain space should be developed as a key public resource for social and economic development for all Canadians".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 10 October 2000, <a href="/wiki/Industry_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Industry Canada">Industry Canada</a> sent a letter<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to the <a href="/wiki/ICANN" title="ICANN">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers</a> (ICANN) formally designating CIRA as the Government of Canada's designee for the .ca domain. On 30 November 2000, CIRA sent ICANN a letter<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> requesting a redelegation of the ccTLD .ca domain, effective 1 December 2000. ICANN agreed, and on that day, the ccTLD .ca was redelegated to CIRA, effectively transitioning all .ca domains from <a href="/wiki/University_of_British_Columbia" title="University of British Columbia">UBC</a> to CIRA. By 30 November 2000, it had registered approximately 120,000 .ca domain names.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2001, CIRA initiated the process to elect its first board of directors. In May 2001, it opened its offices in Ottawa, Ontario and in June 2001, it held a public election for its initial twelve directors. Its first annual general meeting was held 1 December 2001 in <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto, Ontario</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Milestones">Milestones</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Canadian_Internet_Registration_Authority&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Milestones"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In April 2008, CIRA announced that it had surpassed 1 million registered .ca domains. It announced in October 2009, that it would initiate testing for securing the .ca domain space using <a href="/wiki/Domain_Name_System_Security_Extensions" title="Domain Name System Security Extensions">DNSSEC</a>. </p><p>In 2010, CIRA stopped accepting new registrations for third-level domains like "example.on.ca", which prior to CIRA's inception, were imposed on registrants wanting a second-level domain like "example.ca"<i>,</i> but who could not meet the <a href="/wiki/Domain_name_registry" title="Domain name registry">domain name registry's</a> (UBC) standing requirements. Also in 2010, it announced it had reached 1.5 million registered .ca domains, and it launched a national consultation called the Canadian Internet Forum, designed to engage Canadians on internet governance and policy. </p><p>In 2012, CIRA announced it had already reached 2 million .ca registered domains. That year it launched <a href="/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name" title="Internationalized domain name">Internationalized Domain Names</a> (IDNs). In 2014, CIRA started a Community Investment Program, and in 2015, launched the Internet Performance Test initiative. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Additional_activities">Additional activities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Canadian_Internet_Registration_Authority&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Additional activities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Security">Security</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Canadian_Internet_Registration_Authority&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Security"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In September 2012, CIRA held a <a href="/wiki/Domain_Name_System_Security_Extensions" title="Domain Name System Security Extensions">DNSSEC</a> key signing ceremony, and published its first signed .ca <a href="/wiki/Zone_file" title="Zone file">zone file</a> in January 2013. In 2014, it launched its D-Zone DNS firewall and introduced <a href="/wiki/Anycast" title="Anycast">Anycast</a> DNS. A year after its launch, D-Zone was protecting 800,000 users from malware, ransomware and other cyber-attacks in schools, hospitals, municipalities and small businesses across Canada. In June 2016 it announced delivering a <a href="/wiki/White-label_product" title="White-label product">white-label</a> Anycast version of D-Zone. In June 2018, CIRA announced a partnership with the <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Centre_for_Child_Protection" title="Canadian Centre for Child Protection">Canadian Centre for Child Protection</a>, safeguarding K-12 schools by incorporating data from its Project Arachnid into its D-Zone platform.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="CIRA_Registry_Platform">CIRA Registry Platform</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Canadian_Internet_Registration_Authority&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: CIRA Registry Platform"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In July 2016, CIRA announced it would be offering its back-end registry service called FURY, to <a href="/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain" title="Generic top-level domain">gTLDs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain" title="Country code top-level domain">ccTLDs</a> around the world. Its first gTLD customer was <a href="/wiki/.kiwi" title=".kiwi">.kiwi</a> in October 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-DomIncite02_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DomIncite02-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first ccTLD would be <a href="/wiki/.sx" title=".sx">.sx</a> which went live on FURY in November 2017. In 2019, its second and largest ccTLD .ca was added to the platform,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and later it added gTLD <a href="/w/index.php?title=.MLS&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title=".MLS (page does not exist)">.mls</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CIRA-SX_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIRA-SX-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DINC01_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DINC01-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In November 2020 .ie completed the process of migrating it's backend registration platform to a customised version called Titan.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversy">Controversy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Canadian_Internet_Registration_Authority&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Controversy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In March 2006, Clyde Beattie, former chair of the CIRA board of directors and Bernard Turcotte, former president and CEO of CIRA sent an open letter to ICANN expressing concerns on ICANN's "accountability", "transparency", and "fair processes".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>CIRA has itself invited concerns and controversy by changing the make-up of its board of directors, and by removing the reference to "registration" from a clause in its letters patent, allowing it to now go beyond its original mandate by venturing into more lucrative commercial endeavours.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014, Mark Jeftovic, a former CIRA director, and co-founder of <a href="/wiki/EasyDNS" title="EasyDNS">easyDNS Technologies Inc</a>, an accredited ICANN <a href="/wiki/Domain_name_registrar" title="Domain name registrar">domain name registrar</a>, and CIRA certified, sent an open letter<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to Canada's industry minister, the Honorable <a href="/wiki/James_Moore_(Canadian_politician)" title="James Moore (Canadian politician)">James Moore</a>. In his letter, he expressed his concerns about CIRA entering the business of managed <a href="/wiki/Domain_Name_System" title="Domain Name System">DNS</a>, while having a monopoly to operate the ccTLD .ca registry. He proposed the registry be opened to a competitive bidding process, in order to operate it under a fixed three to five-year term.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Canadian_Internet_Registration_Authority&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Governance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The CIRA board is composed of twelve elected directors and currently, three non-voting board advisors. The board members are elected annually by CIRA members through an online process. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Board_of_directors">Board of directors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Canadian_Internet_Registration_Authority&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Board of directors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The current board of directors as of November 2023:<sup id="cite_ref-:2_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Jill Kolwalchuck – Chair, Board of Directors</li> <li>Liza Aboud – Director</li> <li>Colleen Arnold – Chair, Finance, Audit, Investment and Risk Management (FAIR) Committee</li> <li>Gwen Beauchemin – Vice-chair, Board of Directors</li> <li>Don Bowman, Chair – Services Strategy Committee</li> <li>Graeme Bunton - Director</li> <li>Anne Butler, Chair – Compensation and Review Committee</li> <li>Eric Hill, Chair – Governance Committee</li> <li>Matthew Gamble – Co-chair, Community Investment Committee</li> <li>Samantha Ventresca – Co-chair, Community Investment Committee</li> <li>Rob Villeneuve - Director</li> <li>Michael Zahra – Director</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Board_advisors">Board advisors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Canadian_Internet_Registration_Authority&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Board advisors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The current board advisors as of March 2023:<sup id="cite_ref-:2_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Byron Holland – Board Advisor, President, CEO</li> <li>John Demco – Board Advisor</li> <li>Heather Dryden – Board Advisor, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Leadership_team">Leadership team</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Canadian_Internet_Registration_Authority&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Leadership team"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The current leadership team as of January 2024:<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Byron Holland – President and CEO</li> <li>Sanita Alias – Vice-president, People, Culture & Brand</li> <li>Adam Eisner – General Manager, .CA & Registry Services</li> <li>John Ferguson – General Manager, Cybersecurity and DNS Services</li> <li>Jane Fulford – Chief Operating Officer</li> <li>Jacques Latour – Chief Technology and Security Officer</li> <li>Charles Noir – Vice-president, Community Investment, Policy and Advocacy</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Canadian_Internet_Registration_Authority&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/.ca" title=".ca">.ca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/.gc.ca" title=".gc.ca">.gc.ca</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Canadian_Internet_Registration_Authority&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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