Businesses serving customers in Canada and internationally.
.COM domains
.COM domain registration, transfers and ownership
.COM is a general-purpose global domain. The important operational questions are usually ownership, renewal, transfer state, DNS continuity and whether the name still fits the business—not a Canadian eligibility category.
Current DotMoose retail
Use the live checkout for current CAD pricing.
Registration, renewal, transfer, premium status and registry-specific pricing can change. DotMoose synchronizes domain retail pricing from the live reseller path instead of hard-coding point-in-time prices into this guide.
Who it fits
Choose an extension that matches the owner and audience.
Projects that want a broadly recognized general-purpose domain.
Organizations protecting a primary brand across common extensions.
Registration requirements
Get eligibility and ownership right first.
Requirement 1
Use accurate registrant/account information and keep recovery access current.
Requirement 2
Check the live registrar for availability, premium status, registration term and current price; RDAP absence is not an availability guarantee.
Requirement 3
Treat renewal and expiry notices as operational dependencies for any business-critical domain.
Ownership + recovery
A domain should survive staff, agency and provider changes.
Keep the registration in an account controlled by the actual business/domain owner.
Use multi-factor authentication where available and protect registrar account recovery.
Use RDAP to inspect public registration state without assuming public contact information will be present.
Transfer planning
Registrar, DNS and hosting are separate layers.
Check transfer eligibility/locks and authorization requirements before starting.
Preserve nameservers and DNS records unless the migration plan intentionally changes them.
Verify website and email after the registrar move even when DNS was intended to remain unchanged.
Policy source reviewed 2026-08-29: ICANN typical gTLD lifecycle →
Research before changing anything
Check registration state and DNS separately.
RDAP
Check public registration state
Inspect registrar, status, dates, nameservers and DNSSEC data without treating a missing record as an availability guarantee.
DNSRecord the current DNS answers
Check A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT, CNAME and CAA records before a registrar or hosting migration.
GuideUse the transfer checklist
Separate registrar transfer, nameserver delegation and hosting cutover so one change does not accidentally break another service.
.COM with DotMoose
Availability must come from the registrar, not from WHOIS guessing.
DotMoose only treats a name as registerable when the live registrar path confirms it. Availability results are not reservations and can change before checkout completes.