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

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	Creates	Renews
Dec 2017	2	490	30
Nov 2017	0	805	2
Oct 2017	2	797	4
Sep 2017	0	1,219	5
Aug 2017	0	6,123	4
Jul 2017	0	1,790	22
Jun 2017	2	305	0
May 2017	2	541	0
Apr 2017	1	298	0
Mar 2017	0	0	0
Feb 2017	1	0	0

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.