The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has
announced that registrants will be able to register .CA domain
names comprising accented French characters beginning January 13,
2012. CIRA is introducing support for the full range of French
characters, such as é, û, à, ç,
ë.
Every French character variant of a registered .CA domain name
will automatically become part of an administrative bundle. For
example, the bundle for montreal.ca would include
montréal.ca, and the bundle for celinedion.ca would include
célinedion.ca.
Once a domain name is registered, all the variants of that
domain name in the administrative bundle will be automatically
reserved, and will only be available to that registrant. Third
parties cannot register the variants so the introduction of French
characters should not open the floodgates for cybersquatters. So,
for example, the registrant of montreal.ca is the only registrant
entitled to register montréal.ca, and other variants such
