.africa
59,693 domains as of 19 Aug 2026
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
Do people keep it?
all renewal rates ›Of the 51,708 domains that came up for renewal between May 2025 and Apr 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.
For comparison, the median gTLD keeps 69.15% and .com, .net and .org together keep 73.25%.
Registrar share
individual · combinedRelated accreditations combined into corporate families, folding 4 of the 52 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.
| Tucows2 accreditations | 10,686 | 18.89% |
|---|---|---|
| Namecheap | 9,392 | 16.61% |
| DNS Africa Ltd | 6,351 | 11.23% |
| Diamatrix C.C. | 5,225 | 9.24% |
| GoDaddy2 accreditations | 4,395 | 7.77% |
| Host Africa (Pty.) Ltd. | 3,596 | 6.36% |
| Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu | 2,412 | 4.26% |
| 101domain GRS Limited | 2,000 | 3.54% |
| AFRIREGISTER S.A. | 1,944 | 3.44% |
| NETIM SAS | 1,574 | 2.78% |
| Other42 more | 8,982 | 15.88% |
57,615 attributed to registrars in Apr 2026, against 59,693 in 19 Aug 2026’s zone — the zone is 2,078 larger. The two are months apart, and a registry's own count also includes registrations that are not delegated in the zone. Why there are two clocks.
Domains by month, Feb 2017 – Apr 2026
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 |
Showing the latest 6 of 111 months in this range. Show all 111.
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, over the same window as the chart above.
- Added
- Dropped
Registrars
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 490 | 0 | 30 |
| Nov 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 805 | 0 | 2 |
| Oct 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 797 | 0 | 4 |
| Sep 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,219 | 0 | 5 |
| Aug 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6,123 | 0 | 4 |
| Jul 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,790 | 0 | 22 |
| Jun 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 305 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 541 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 298 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Data currency. Domain counts on this page are from zone files dated 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.