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The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) manages the .CA top-level domain. They maintain a list of registrars who are certified with CIRA to sell .CA domain names.

I have registered a .CA domain with Name.com (which I guess is a subsidiary of Donuts) but I noticed that neither Name.com nor Donuts are on the list of registrars certified with CIRA. How can that be? Is this simply a matter of CIRA not keeping their list up-to-date? Or is it possible for registrars to sell domains without being authorized or certified by the organization that manages the TLD?

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    1) registrars can have resellers and 2) names used by registries to reference registrars can be different from what is expected. Did you ask your provider about this? And/OR the registry? Typically, companies can add logos "accredited by X" if they are registrars of X. If not, you won't see the logo so that can be a point to be taken into account, or not, when choosing your provider. Also a company can be a registrar for some TLDs and at the same time a reseller of another registrar for some other TLDs... Jul 5, 2019 at 22:12

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As Patrick Mevzek said in his comment, it's because registrars can have resellers.

This is the response I got from CIRA.

Name.com is a reseller for other Registrars, and in this case they are for at least one certified .CA Registrar.

Certification is a process that requires some strenuous testing on the Registrars side. They also have to agree and adhere to a large list of policies that we have in place. Resellers do not have to go through the same systems.

In this case it turns out that my domains are actually registered with Tucows and Gandi Services Inc. and Name is just reselling those.

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