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Canadian .ca domains in CIRA's next To Be Released sessions, straight from CIRA's own public list, with archive history and a spam check for each name.

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Domain name

Characters and pattern

No hyphens No double hyphens No numbers No adult names

Pattern: C consonant, V vowel, N number, L any letter, * any run, ? any one character; letters and numbers match themselves. Separate several with commas.

Counts

LengthHyphensVowelsConsonantsLettersNumbersWords

FreedDomains scores

Quality 0-100BrandabilityValue £ Passes the radio test

Our own estimates: how we score domains.

Words and topic

Dictionary words only (English)Word length Words start with the same letter

Other extensions (Reg)

Registrar, nameservers and status (from the registry)

Registered (WBY)

Filled from each registry's RDAP service a few names at a time, best names first. Names not yet checked are left out by these filters.

History and SEO

First archived (ABY) Only with archive history Only without archive history Has authority Linked from Wikipedia

Listing

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How .ca names are released

Expired .ca names are not simply deleted. CIRA, the .ca registry, puts them into a weekly To Be Released (TBR) session, usually 32 to 78 days after they expire. Before the session, you ask a CIRA-certified registrar to put in a request for the name; if several registrars request the same name, CIRA picks one at random. Names nobody requests are released for normal registration afterwards. You must meet CIRA's Canadian presence rules to hold a .ca name.

When a name drops it is released to the first registrar to ask for it. For a name others want, a backorder with a drop-catching service is the best chance; quieter names can often be registered at any registrar shortly after the drop. See auctions, backorders and drop-catching.

What the columns mean

History: the year the Internet Archive first saw a website on the name, and how many years it was captured. This is website history, not registration age.
Spam: our own 0 to 100 score from the archived URLs and history: gambling, adult, pharmacy, replica or loan pages, Chinese/Japanese keyword spam, mass-generated pages and long spells of redirects all raise it. Hover or tap the score for the reasons. It is an estimate, not Moz's Spam Score.
Authority: the name's rank in Common Crawl's public web graph (lower is stronger), a free measure of how well linked it is across the web.
Wiki: how many English Wikipedia articles link to the name, from Wikipedia's own public data. Links from Wikipedia are a strong sign the old site was real and trusted. A dash means not checked yet.
Words and topic: under each name, the dictionary words it splits into and its topic, so you can filter for keyword or brandable names. Pattern uses C for a consonant, V for a vowel and N for a number, so CVCV finds names like "bako".
Other TLDs: how many of .com, .net, .org, .co.uk, .io, .de and .info are already registered with the same name. Names taken in many extensions are usually valued keywords.
DA, TF, DR: Moz, Majestic and Ahrefs metrics, shown where we have measured them. A dash means not measured, never zero.

Before you buy

Look at the old captures, check the backlinks and search for trademarks before buying: our domain history checklist covers each step. Other lists: just dropped, caught domains, dropping in 24 hours, all expired domains, top picks, .uk drop list, .se drop list, .nu drop list, .hu drop list, .it drop list.

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