Registrar none afaik, but you could use free DNS from cloudflare and automate that.
At least that way you can keep the registrar in Canada, if not the DNS.
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Yeah, will do that if necessary. I got a nice support message from Canspace suggesting that I look into Hurricane Electric's free API-managed DNS service as well.
I'm currently using Namecheap and in my mind, ddclient support was something relatively basic and common. But now that I search for a Canadian registrar with the feature it does seem hard to find :(
~~not Canadian, but gandi is based in France and offers an api to update dns for free with domain registration through them. i think their prices are decent too? it's been a while since i've looked at them.~~
i'm guessing a lot of the smaller domain registrars aren't going to offer dynamic dns.
edit: avoid gandi. bought out by private equity firm, now jacking up renewal prices. i heard that previously but had forgotten about it. sorry!
Avoid Gandi. They got recently purchased by private equity and have been jacking up renewal prices like mad. I had them double a dotcom domain renewal. So had a friend. They used to be great before that.
ooh I remember hearing about that. I'll edit my original comment.
Tried a few gibberish .ca domains and it rejected them all. I wonder if maybe they just aren't allowed to register our TLD?
they're listed on their website as "available"? https://www.gandi.net/en-CA/domain/tld/ca
i thought i had a .ca with them at one point in time, but could be wrong too. i dunno.
i wonder if cira is having issues because searching domains on their site is returning an error, and i've tried a few different domain registrars and all .ca domains seems to be coming up as unavailable.
I've been utilizing Porkbun's API for that purpose with a periodic script that checks and updates my DNS