.africa

59,414 domains as of 13 Aug 2026

Domains

59,414

13 Aug 2026

30-day change

–

Signed in root

✔ Yes

DS record present

Type

Generic

ASCII

Registrar figures are for April 2026. ICANN publishes monthly registry reports about three months in arrears, and they are the only source that attributes domains to registrars — zone files do not contain registrar information. Methodology.

Registry details

From the IANA Root Zone Database and RDAP bootstrap.

Registry operator: ZA Central Registry NPC trading as Registry.Africa
Technical backend: dnsnode.net inferred group via ns suffix
Delegated: 15 Feb 2017
Nameservers: coza1.dnsnode.net, ns.coza.net.za, ns4.dns.net.za
RDAP: https://rdap.nic.africa/rdap
Zone data: CZDS access approved — counted daily

Registrar share

individual · combined

Individual ICANN accreditations, matching the registry report line for line. 55 reported volume in this TLD.

57.6kdomains reported

Share of .africa by registrar
Tucows Domains Inc.	10,556	18.32%
NameCheap, Inc.	9,814	17.03%
DNS Africa Ltd	6,076	10.55%
GoDaddy.com, LLC	5,461	9.48%
Diamatrix C.C.	5,093	8.84%
Host Africa (Pty.) Ltd.	4,054	7.04%
101domain GRS Limited	1,900	3.3%
AFRIREGISTER S.A.	1,837	3.19%
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu	1,719	2.98%
NETIM SAS	1,623	2.82%
Other45 more registrars	9,482	16.46%

Domains by month, 2017–present

From ICANN's monthly registry reports — the registry's own count, summed across registrars. This is the long history: it reaches back to delegation, where the daily series below can only start when this site began collecting zone files.

Month	Domains	Change	Registrars	Net adds	Deletes
Apr 2026	57,615	▲ +181	55	1,862	1,687
Mar 2026	57,434	▲ +780	55	2,173	1,368
Feb 2026	56,654	▲ +97	55	1,666	1,511
Jan 2026	56,557	▲ +173	54	1,579	1,558
Dec 2025	56,384	▼ -171	53	1,522	1,664
Nov 2025	56,555	▼ -572	53	1,613	2,159
Oct 2025	57,127	▲ +252	53	1,544	1,400
Sep 2025	56,875	▲ +268	53	1,568	1,230
Aug 2025	56,607	▲ +457	53	1,633	1,159
Jul 2025	56,150	▲ +547	52	1,550	1,063
Jun 2025	55,603	▲ +53	52	1,767	1,566
May 2025	55,550	▲ +623	53	1,802	1,302
Apr 2025	54,927	▲ +339	53	1,570	1,289
Mar 2025	54,588	▲ +407	53	2,028	1,509
Feb 2025	54,181	▲ +289	50	1,407	1,187
Jan 2025	53,892	▲ +1,088	49	1,793	933
Dec 2024	52,804	▲ +561	49	1,917	1,131
Nov 2024	52,243	▲ +688	49	1,863	1,029
Oct 2024	51,555	▲ +1,186	49	2,203	1,225
Sep 2024	50,369	▲ +416	49	1,425	919
Aug 2024	49,953	▲ +310	49	1,348	1,084
Jul 2024	49,643	▲ +172	49	1,311	1,147
Jun 2024	49,471	▼ -497	49	1,212	1,713
May 2024	49,968	▲ +605	49	1,417	913

Domains over time

Counted from daily zone files. Names with at least one NS record or a DS record.

Daily adds and drops

Day-over-day difference of the zone's name list.

Added
Dropped

Registrars

Registrar	Domains	Share	Net adds	Transfers in	Deletes
Tucows Domains Inc.	10,556	18.3%	▲ +199	13	187
NameCheap, Inc.	9,814	17%	▲ +489	12	348
DNS Africa Ltd	6,076	10.5%	▲ +66	6	223
GoDaddy.com, LLC	5,461	9.5%	▲ +381	5	152
Diamatrix C.C.	5,093	8.8%	▲ +90	5	235
Host Africa (Pty.) Ltd.	4,054	7%	▲ +247	2	83
101domain GRS Limited	1,900	3.3%	▲ +11	1	66
AFRIREGISTER S.A.	1,837	3.2%	▲ +69	0	108
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu	1,719	3%	▲ +42	9	153
NETIM SAS	1,623	2.8%	▲ +37	4	25
Lexsynergy Limited	1,551	2.7%	▲ +19	1	4
Key-Systems, LLC	1,258	2.2%	▲ +49	1	8
Gandi SAS	922	1.6%	▲ +19	0	20
Instra Corporation Pty Ltd.	919	1.6%	▲ +7	0	7
IONOS SE	572	1%	▲ +10	0	7
Marcaria International LLC	452	0.8%	▲ +12	0	12
1API GmbH	439	0.8%	0	0	2
Genious Communications SARL/AU	322	0.6%	0	0	3
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE	318	0.6%	0	0	0
united-domains GmbH	299	0.5%	▲ +7	0	4
Ascio Technologies, Inc. Danmark - Filial af Ascio technologies, Inc. USA	230	0.4%	▲ +3	0	1
MarkMonitor Inc.	230	0.4%	▲ +1	3	0
Arcanes Technologies	211	0.4%	▲ +3	0	2
Upperlink Limited	170	0.3%	▲ +7	0	10
Safenames Ltd	151	0.3%	0	0	0
EuroDNS S.A.	143	0.2%	▲ +2	0	1
INWX GmbH	140	0.2%	▲ +1	1	19
InterNetX GmbH	122	0.2%	0	0	2
GO54 LIMITED	116	0.2%	▲ +60	0	0
Nameshield SAS	115	0.2%	0	0	0
Hosteur SARL	80	0.1%	▲ +2	1	1
IP Twins SAS	76	0.1%	0	0	0
Realtime Register B.V.	67	0.1%	▲ +2	0	0
Ghana Dot Com Ltd.	60	0.1%	0	0	1
CSL Computer Service Langenbach GmbH d/b/a joker.com	59	0.1%	▲ +3	0	0
BB-Online UK Limited	58	0.1%	0	0	0
Gname.com Pte. Ltd.	54	0.1%	▲ +16	0	0
Abion AB	52	0.1%	0	0	0
Gransy, s.r.o.	50	0.1%	0	1	1
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd.	41	0.1%	▲ +3	0	0
Wild West Domains, LLC	40	0.1%	▲ +5	0	0
Dreamscape Networks International Pte Ltd	39	0.1%	0	0	2
SafeBrands SAS	30	0.1%	0	0	0
NameWeb BVBA	25	0%	0	0	0
Kheweul.com SA	20	0%	0	0	0
COREhub, S.R.L.	18	0%	0	0	0
Secura GmbH	13	0%	0	0	0
Variomedia AG	5	0%	0	0	0
Tool Domains Ltd dba Edoms.com	4	0%	0	0	0
SecureBackorder EOOD	3	0%	0	0	0
Salestrar EOOD	3	0%	0	0	0
Whois Corp.	2	0%	0	0	0
EnCirca, Inc.	1	0%	0	0	0
CPS-Datensysteme GmbH	1	0%	0	0	0
Reserved for billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar	1	0%	0	0	0

Registry activity

Query volumes and EPP operations reported monthly by the registry. The only public signal of how much a TLD is actually resolved rather than merely registered.

Month	Operational registrars	DNS queries (UDP)	RDAP queries	Creates	Deletes	Renews
Apr 2026	55	387	185.8k	1,863	64	3,065
Mar 2026	55	225	124.6k	2,175	45	3,483
Feb 2026	55	975	193.3k	1,668	63	2,294
Jan 2026	54	1k	187k	1,579	57	2,195
Dec 2025	53	1.1k	158.1k	1,523	61	2,135
Nov 2025	53	1.2k	207.9k	1,614	38	2,421
Oct 2025	53	0	0	1,545	41	2,555
Sep 2025	53	1.4k	200.8k	1,568	54	3,514
Aug 2025	53	1.2k	178.1k	1,633	1,436	3,608
Jul 2025	52	1.1k	130.4k	1,550	2,623	3,491
Jun 2025	52	1.4k	150.1k	1,767	3,250	2,988
May 2025	53	0	0	1,802	3,664	2,293
Apr 2025	53	795	135.6k	1,570	3,471	2,825
Mar 2025	53	300	190.2k	2,028	3,602	3,303
Feb 2025	50	122.3k	113.4k	1,407	2,175	2,072
Jan 2025	49	127.1k	145.4k	1,793	2,410	2,034
Dec 2024	49	134k	125.3k	1,917	3,355	1,971
Nov 2024	49	141k	174.8k	1,863	2,090	2,184
Oct 2024	49	148.8k	207.5k	2,203	2,316	2,459
Sep 2024	49	157.4k	205.7k	1,425	1,714	3,758
Aug 2024	49	142.4k	194k	1,348	1,481	3,412
Jul 2024	49	150.2k	204.6k	1,311	1,561	3,069
Jun 2024	49	161k	120.3k	1,212	2,832	3,069
May 2024	49	171.9k	152.5k	1,417	1,488	2,281
Apr 2024	49	181.8k	134.2k	1,411	1,939	3,172
Mar 2024	49	194.7k	127.4k	1,587	1,279	2,817
Feb 2024	49	203.5k	116.8k	1,401	300	1,786
Jan 2024	49	215.9k	153k	1,533	1,380	1,820
Dec 2023	49	71.52M	0	1,182	1,466	1,770
Nov 2023	49	0	0	1,322	2,462	1,682
Oct 2023	49	423.67M	0	1,302	1,377	2,655
Sep 2023	49	0	0	1,233	0	3,622
Aug 2023	49	31.5k	0	1,295	1,223	3,090
Jul 2023	49	0	0	1,351	0	3,102
Jun 2023	49	0	0	184	111	2,696
May 2023	49	29.9k	0	1,262	1,848	3,440
Apr 2023	49	32.8k	0	1,231	1,994	2,259
Mar 2023	0	0	0	1,386	0	2,200
Feb 2023	1	0	0	1,301	0	3,276
Jan 2023	0	0	0	1,307	0	2,243
Dec 2022	0	0	0	1,081	0	1,553
Nov 2022	0	0	0	17,126	0	1,294
Oct 2022	1	0	0	2,306	0	1,655
Sep 2022	0	0	0	3,228	0	1,645
Aug 2022	0	0	0	1,300	0	2,089
Jul 2022	0	0	0	1,073	0	3,037
Jun 2022	1	0	0	52,428	0	2,226
May 2022	1	0	0	40,443	0	2,036
Apr 2022	0	0	0	1,003	0	1,568
Mar 2022	0	0	0	2,905	0	1,508
Feb 2022	0	0	0	16,162	0	1,636
Jan 2022	1	0	0	774	0	1,465
Dec 2021	0	0	0	712	0	1,123
Nov 2021	0	0	0	853	0	1,113
Oct 2021	2	0	0	888	0	1,330
Sep 2021	1	0	0	813	0	1,270
Aug 2021	0	0	0	821	0	2,028
Jul 2021	1	0	0	770	0	2,569
Jun 2021	0	0	0	842	0	1,977
May 2021	0	0	0	947	0	1,752
Apr 2021	0	0	0	871	0	1,334
Mar 2021	2	0	0	1,242	0	1,083
Feb 2021	0	0	0	1,293	0	1,244
Jan 2021	0	0	0	924	0	1,100
Dec 2020	0	0	0	876	0	879
Nov 2020	0	0	0	882	0	713
Oct 2020	0	0	0	1,150	0	1,035
Sep 2020	0	0	0	930	0	1,297
Aug 2020	0	0	0	988	0	1,605
Jul 2020	0	0	0	1,044	0	2,478
Jun 2020	0	0	0	961	0	1,840
May 2020	0	0	0	1,066	0	1,382
Apr 2020	0	0	0	900	0	750
Mar 2020	0	0	0	769	0	802
Feb 2020	0	0	0	1,598	0	964
Jan 2020	0	0	0	693	0	883
Dec 2019	0	0	0	555	0	678
Nov 2019	0	0	0	653	0	543
Oct 2019	0	0	0	783	0	767
Sep 2019	1	0	0	828	0	802
Aug 2019	0	0	0	729	0	1,713
Jul 2019	0	0	0	781	0	2,477
Jun 2019	1	0	0	636	0	1,404
May 2019	0	0	0	696	0	1,169
Apr 2019	0	0	0	665	0	502
Mar 2019	0	0	0	1,238	0	523
Feb 2019	0	0	0	1,393	0	516
Jan 2019	0	0	0	651	0	500
Dec 2018	0	0	0	557	0	411
Nov 2018	1	0	0	613	0	455
Oct 2018	1	0	0	662	0	479
Sep 2018	0	0	0	645	0	684
Aug 2018	1	0	0	756	0	1,648
Jul 2018	2	0	0	645	0	3,089
Jun 2018	0	0	0	631	0	1,136
May 2018	0	0	0	723	0	826
Apr 2018	0	0	0	588	0	276
Mar 2018	0	0	0	794	0	94
Feb 2018	1	0	0	740	0	55
Jan 2018	0	0	0	899	0	62

Data currency. Domain counts on this page are from zone files dated 13 August 2026 and refresh daily. Registrar figures are from ICANN's monthly registry reports for April 2026, which ICANN publishes about three months in arrears; zone files contain no registrar information, so no fresher source exists. Full detail on methodology and live pipeline status.