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.capetown

3,627 domains as of April 2026, from the registry's own report to ICANN. No zone file is available for this TLD, so there is no daily count — why there are two clocks.

Domains
3,627
April 2026 report
30-day change
–
–
Signed in root
✔ Yes
DS record present
Type
Generic
ASCII
Registrar figures are for November 2025. 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 ZA Central Registry
Technical backend
dns.net.za inferred group via ns suffix
Delegated
19 Jun 2014
Nameservers
coza1.dnsnode.net, ns2.dns.net.za, ns4.dns.net.za
RDAP
https://rdap.nic.capetown/rdap
Zone data
CZDS access expired, renewal pending

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Of the 3,996 domains that came up for renewal between May 2025 and Apr 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate
74.95%
above .com/.net/.org
Renewed
2,995
in twelve months
Deleted
1,001
in twelve months

For comparison, the median gTLD keeps 69.15% and .com, .net and .org together keep 73.25%.

Registrar share

individual · combined

Related accreditations combined into corporate families, folding 2 of the 27 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

Month ‹ › Nov 2025 latest
Tucows — 1,913 (48.08%)Diamatrix C.C. — 1,026 (25.79%)Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu — 267 (6.71%)Lexsynergy Limited — 211 (5.3%)DNS Africa Ltd — 152 (3.82%)Host Africa (Pty.) Ltd. — 76 (1.91%)MarkMonitor Inc. — 65 (1.63%)Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE — 58 (1.46%)NETIM SAS — 45 (1.13%)IONOS SE — 35 (0.88%)Other — 131 (3.29%)
3.98kreported Nov 2025
Tucows2 accreditations1,91348.08%
Diamatrix C.C.1,02625.79%
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu2676.71%
Lexsynergy Limited2115.3%
DNS Africa Ltd1523.82%
Host Africa (Pty.) Ltd.761.91%
MarkMonitor Inc.651.63%
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE581.46%
NETIM SAS451.13%
IONOS SE350.88%
Other17 more1313.29%

Domains by month, Jun 2014 – 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.

Jun 2014 – Apr 2026 1y 3y 5y 10y All
01,4622,9244,3855,847Jun 2014May 2020Apr 2026
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MonthDomainsChangeRegistrarsNet addsDeletes
Apr 2026 3,627 ▼ -122 27 36 167
Mar 2026 3,749 ▼ -56 27 40 85
Feb 2026 3,805 ▼ -47 27 38 89
Jan 2026 3,852 ▼ -74 28 38 87
Dec 2025 3,926 ▼ -53 28 32 110
Nov 2025 3,979 ▼ -113 28 31 19

Showing the latest 6 of 143 months in this range. Show all 143.

Daily domain counts

No zone data for this TLD yet Daily counts require an approved CZDS zone request for this TLD. The monthly history above is unaffected — it comes from ICANN registry reports.

Registrars

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.
Registrar Domains Share Net adds Transfers in Deletes
Tucows Domains Inc. 1,825
45.9%
▲ +12 1 19
Diamatrix C.C. 803
20.2%
▲ +9 0 126
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu 233
5.9%
▲ +3 0 8
Lexsynergy Limited 201
5.1%
0 0 1
DNS Africa Ltd 144
3.6%
▲ +1 0 4
Host Africa (Pty.) Ltd. 91
2.3%
▲ +11 0 5
MarkMonitor Inc. 66
1.7%
0 0 0
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE 60
1.5%
0 0 0
IONOS SE 36
0.9%
0 0 0
NETIM SAS 32
0.8%
0 0 1
Key-Systems, LLC 29
0.7%
0 0 0
Gandi SAS 23
0.6%
0 0 1
101domain GRS Limited 18
0.5%
0 0 0
1API GmbH 15
0.4%
0 0 0
Ascio Technologies, Inc. Danmark - Filial af Ascio technologies, Inc. USA 11
0.3%
0 0 0
united-domains GmbH 10
0.3%
0 0 1
Marcaria International LLC 5
0.1%
0 0 0
INWX GmbH 4
0.1%
0 0 0
Safenames Ltd 3
0.1%
0 0 0
Realtime Register B.V. 3
0.1%
0 0 0
Instra Corporation Pty Ltd. 3
0.1%
0 0 0
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd. 3
0.1%
0 0 0
InterNetX GmbH 2
0.1%
0 0 0
PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com 2
0.1%
0 0 0
EuroDNS S.A. 2
0.1%
0 0 1
Dreamscape Networks International Pte Ltd 2
0.1%
0 0 0
COREhub, S.R.L. 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.

MonthOperational registrarsDNS queries (UDP)RDAP queriesCreatesDeletesRenews
Dec 2017 2 0 0 38 0 186
Nov 2017 0 0 0 80 0 486
Oct 2017 2 0 0 103 0 985
Sep 2017 0 0 0 77 0 204
Aug 2017 0 0 0 201 0 206
Jul 2017 0 0 0 92 0 124
Jun 2017 2 0 0 91 0 123
May 2017 2 0 0 98 0 155
Apr 2017 1 0 0 84 0 120
Mar 2017 0 0 0 104 0 161
Feb 2017 0 13.67M 0 92 0 152
Jan 2017 0 17.63M 0 122 0 322
Dec 2016 0 11.07M 0 82 0 167
Nov 2016 0 10.37M 0 161 0 448
Oct 2016 0 10.13M 0 109 0 1,140
Sep 2016 0 10.28M 0 131 0 110
Aug 2016 0 9.91M 0 106 0 141
Jul 2016 0 9.24M 0 104 0 69
Jun 2016 0 9.50M 0 135 0 74
May 2016 0 9.33M 0 113 0 78
Apr 2016 1 10.58M 0 109 0 94
Mar 2016 0 9.06M 0 109 0 115
Feb 2016 0 7.39M 0 95 0 125
Jan 2016 0 7.32M 0 83 0 315
Dec 2015 0 7.28M 0 86 0 166
Nov 2015 0 6.87M 0 100 0 533
Oct 2015 0 6.96M 0 131 0 1,306
Sep 2015 1 5.05M 0 232 0 45
Aug 2015 1 5.45M 0 102 0 15
Jul 2015 0 5.85M 0 113 0 10
Jun 2015 0 6.00M 0 119 0 9
May 2015 1 5.22M 0 122 0 14
Apr 2015 0 6.52M 0 157 0 4
Mar 2015 0 6.34M 0 181 0 12
Feb 2015 0 6.09M 0 356 0 5
Jan 2015 0 5.94M 0 411 0 3
Dec 2014 2 6.65M 0 262 0 6
Nov 2014 3 5.98M 0 2,776 0 13
Oct 2014 6 4.45M 0 356 0 0
Sep 2014 4 0 0 113 0 0
Aug 2014 3 0 0 0 0 0
Jul 2014 10 0 0 0 0 0
Jun 2014 0 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.