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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 December 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 status not yet established

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 ‹ › Dec 2025 latest
Tucows — 1,881 (47.91%)Diamatrix C.C. — 1,024 (26.08%)Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu — 260 (6.62%)Lexsynergy Limited — 205 (5.22%)DNS Africa Ltd — 148 (3.77%)Host Africa (Pty.) Ltd. — 76 (1.94%)MarkMonitor Inc. — 65 (1.66%)Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE — 58 (1.48%)NETIM SAS — 44 (1.12%)IONOS SE — 34 (0.87%)Other — 131 (3.34%)
3.93kreported Dec 2025
Tucows2 accreditations1,88147.91%
Diamatrix C.C.1,02426.08%
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu2606.62%
Lexsynergy Limited2055.22%
DNS Africa Ltd1483.77%
Host Africa (Pty.) Ltd.761.94%
MarkMonitor Inc.651.66%
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE581.48%
NETIM SAS441.12%
IONOS SE340.87%
Other17 more1313.34%

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
COREhub, S.R.L. 1
0%
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
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
INWX GmbH 4
0.1%
0 0 0
Marcaria International LLC 5
0.1%
0 0 0
united-domains GmbH 10
0.3%
0 0 1
Ascio Technologies, Inc. Danmark - Filial af Ascio technologies, Inc. USA 11
0.3%
0 0 0
1API GmbH 15
0.4%
0 0 0
101domain GRS Limited 18
0.5%
0 0 0
Gandi SAS 23
0.6%
0 0 1
Key-Systems, LLC 29
0.7%
0 0 0
NETIM SAS 32
0.8%
0 0 1
IONOS SE 36
0.9%
0 0 0
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE 60
1.5%
0 0 0
MarkMonitor Inc. 66
1.7%
0 0 0
Host Africa (Pty.) Ltd. 91
2.3%
▲ +11 0 5
DNS Africa Ltd 144
3.7%
▲ +1 0 4
Lexsynergy Limited 201
5.1%
0 0 1
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu 233
5.9%
▲ +3 0 8
Diamatrix C.C. 803
20.5%
▲ +9 0 126
Tucows Domains Inc. 1,825
46.5%
▲ +12 1 19

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
Apr 2026 27 0 80.18k 36 0 182
Mar 2026 27 0 59.71k 40 0 282
Feb 2026 27 324 46.72k 38 0 202
Jan 2026 28 351 65.81k 38 57 230
Dec 2025 28 384 77.04k 32 0 357
Nov 2025 28 435 68.15k 31 19 462
Oct 2025 28 0 0 40 3 295
Sep 2025 29 570 50.33k 50 17 178
Aug 2025 29 531 62.09k 36 3 187
Jul 2025 29 633 61.66k 43 3 209
Jun 2025 29 828 66.24k 31 6 177
May 2025 29 0 0 34 32 234
Apr 2025 29 0 66.95k 43 67 323
Mar 2025 29 0 63.27k 50 95 275
Feb 2025 29 121.73k 61.28k 69 5 217
Jan 2025 29 126.55k 45.78k 105 30 224
Dec 2024 29 133.41k 47.52k 83 51 386
Nov 2024 29 140.42k 66.66k 80 36 520
Oct 2024 29 148.22k 67.60k 150 35 272
Sep 2024 29 156.84k 47.98k 72 29 186
Aug 2024 29 141.88k 47.14k 72 60 199
Jul 2024 29 149.60k 52.31k 57 3 216
Jun 2024 29 160.40k 43.76k 56 3 194
May 2024 29 171.32k 45.41k 70 2 269
Apr 2024 29 181.21k 55.88k 66 9 227
Mar 2024 29 194.07k 75.96k 77 80 405
Feb 2024 29 202.88k 65.92k 61 9 196
Jan 2024 28 215.13k 76.00k 91 2 238
Dec 2023 0 0 0 77 0 205
Nov 2023 0 0 0 76 0 323
Oct 2023 0 0 0 242 0 489
Sep 2023 0 0 0 63 0 345
Aug 2023 0 0 0 58 0 250
Jul 2023 0 0 0 58 0 170
Jun 2023 2 0 0 61 0 201
May 2023 0 0 0 57 0 213
Apr 2023 0 0 0 53 0 181
Mar 2023 0 0 0 91 0 224
Feb 2023 1 0 0 58 0 480
Jan 2023 0 0 0 77 0 242
Dec 2022 0 0 0 40 0 173
Nov 2022 0 0 0 75 0 280
Oct 2022 1 0 0 69 0 536
Sep 2022 0 0 0 74 0 311
Aug 2022 0 0 0 77 0 257
Jul 2022 0 0 0 64 0 145
Jun 2022 1 0 0 123 0 183
May 2022 1 0 0 96 0 202
Apr 2022 0 0 0 121 0 167
Mar 2022 0 0 0 432 0 175
Feb 2022 0 0 0 31 0 201
Jan 2022 1 0 0 34 0 305
Dec 2021 0 0 0 27 0 162
Nov 2021 0 0 0 41 0 268
Oct 2021 2 0 0 46 0 580
Sep 2021 1 0 0 32 0 274
Aug 2021 0 0 0 29 0 219
Jul 2021 1 0 0 36 0 142
Jun 2021 0 0 0 40 0 194
May 2021 0 0 0 35 0 179
Apr 2021 0 0 0 31 0 178
Mar 2021 2 0 0 44 0 170
Feb 2021 0 0 0 33 0 216
Jan 2021 0 0 0 37 0 308
Dec 2020 0 0 0 19 0 192
Nov 2020 0 0 0 40 0 283
Oct 2020 0 0 0 46 0 633
Sep 2020 0 0 0 66 0 330
Aug 2020 0 0 0 60 0 257
Jul 2020 0 0 0 49 0 162
Jun 2020 0 0 0 51 0 216
May 2020 0 0 0 66 0 187
Apr 2020 0 0 0 53 0 177
Mar 2020 0 0 0 53 0 183
Feb 2020 0 0 0 162 0 229
Jan 2020 0 0 0 36 0 338
Dec 2019 0 0 0 27 0 204
Nov 2019 0 0 0 37 0 352
Oct 2019 0 0 0 55 0 714
Sep 2019 1 0 0 90 0 324
Aug 2019 0 0 0 51 0 203
Jul 2019 0 0 0 90 0 154
Jun 2019 1 0 0 50 0 156
May 2019 0 0 0 68 0 161
Apr 2019 0 0 0 69 0 124
Mar 2019 0 0 0 150 0 136
Feb 2019 0 0 0 244 0 138
Jan 2019 0 0 0 71 0 315
Dec 2018 0 0 0 46 0 181
Nov 2018 1 0 0 71 0 458
Oct 2018 1 0 0 72 0 856
Sep 2018 0 0 0 63 0 274
Aug 2018 1 0 0 70 0 279
Jul 2018 2 0 0 80 0 250
Jun 2018 0 0 0 105 0 181
May 2018 0 0 0 87 0 211
Apr 2018 0 0 0 54 0 159
Mar 2018 0 0 0 61 0 198
Feb 2018 1 0 0 86 0 186
Jan 2018 0 0 0 93 0 391

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.