Some .ca names spent their whole lives inside the province they came from. severnlodge.on.ca, cloverdale.bc.ca, rdaq.qc.ca — addresses from the hierarchical era, when Canadian organizations registered under whichever province they belonged to. For as long as one of those third-level forms was alive, the flat .ca form behind it sat untouchable, reserved in CIRA's registry like a chair pulled up to a table no one was sitting at.
When the holder finally lets go, the flat form unlocks for the first time ever. There is a small joy in that — a name two decades dormant, finally available. There is also a clean kind of grief: the original holder doesn't get it back. Whoever was severnlodge.on.ca for twenty-five years is gone from this name before anyone notices. The third-level form does not return.
This page is the wake. Each card below is a Canadian web address letting go, captured in the moment of release.
5 releases this drop. Page auto-rolls to the next drop every Wednesday.
Craig Taylor's chuckwagon.ab.ca carried an Alberta web presence for over two decades, first registered in April 2001 and documented in twenty-five Wayback captures stretching across a quarter-century of the Canadian internet. When that third-level domain was deleted, it took with it whatever Taylor had built under that name — the thread simply ends. The flat chuckwagon.ca, released today into open registration for the first time, belongs to no part of that history; whoever claims it at auction will begin something entirely unrelated, and Taylor's long tenure under the Alberta hierarchy will leave no trace in what follows.
Original registrant: Craig Taylor
First WHOIS record: 2001-04-24
Held via: 2229826 Ontario Inc
Captured at 3 moments from the Wayback archive of chuckwagon.ab.ca
Wayback timeline — 12 sampled captures from 2001–2026
Robert J. Wilkins Associates Ltd held rjwa.on.ca within Ontario's hierarchical namespace from October 2000, a presence reaching back in the Wayback Machine's record to 1998 and documented across more than two decades of captures through 2021. That third-level address, and whatever professional identity it carried for the Associates, is now deleted. The flat rjwa.ca, unlocked today for the first time and bearing none of that history, will pass to whoever claims it first — a stranger to the name, beginning from nothing.
Original registrant: Robert J. Wilkins Associates Ltd
First WHOIS record: 2000-10-17
Held via: Canadian Domain Name Services Inc
Captured at 3 moments from the Wayback archive of rjwa.on.ca
Wayback timeline — 12 sampled captures from 1998–2021
Four villages dot on dot ca carried an Ontario web presence through the early open years of the Canadian internet, registered in November 2000 and captured by the Wayback Machine at least four times between 2001 and 2005, its registrant's identity kept behind a privacy shield but their tenure of more than two decades in the hierarchical system quietly real. That third-level form has now been deleted, and with it whatever community, organization, or individual tended this particular corner of Ontario's online geography is severed from this name permanently. The flat 4villages.ca enters open registration today for the first time, and whoever claims it will have no thread connecting them to what came before.
Original registrant: privacy-protected
First WHOIS record: 2000-11-29
Held via: register.ca inc
Captured at 2 moments from the Wayback archive of 4villages.on.ca
Wayback timeline — 12 sampled captures from 2001–2005
qts.on.ca held a quiet Ontario presence across the final turn of the millennium, its two Wayback captures from 1999 and 2000 the only surviving evidence of whatever purpose it once served — a registrant whose name the WHOIS record declined to preserve. With that third-level domain now deleted, the lineage ends there, unattributed and unretrievable. Today qts.ca enters open registration for the first time, available to any stranger, carrying nothing forward from the Ontario record it has no connection to.
Original registrant: privacy-protected
Captured at 1 moment from the Wayback archive of qts.on.ca
Wayback timeline — 4 sampled captures from 1999–2000
The Quebec domain arp.qc.ca carried a thread of online presence reaching back to 1998, its single archived capture a quiet trace of whatever organization or individual once claimed that name in the province's hierarchical registry. The registrant, shielded by privacy redaction, remains unknown — only the fact of their presence survives, and now even that anchoring form is gone, deleted after more than two decades of reservation. With arp.ca entering open registration for the first time today, the lineage ends here: whoever takes that flat name will be a stranger to what came before.
Original registrant: privacy-protected
Captured at 1 moment from the Wayback archive of arp.qc.ca
Wayback timeline — 2 sampled captures from 1998–1998