ZA Central Registry, a non-profit organisation that was established in 1988 and administrates the South African zones such as “co.za” and “web.za”, has so far registered over one million.
Of the registered 1 000 0027 domains, 962,962 are co.za domains while 26,592 are org.za.
The balance constitutes .capetown, .joburg, .durban, web.za, and net.za registrations as indicated in the table below.
|
Namespace |
Domains registered |
Percentage |
|
co.za |
962.962 |
96.294 |
|
org.za |
26.592 |
2.659 |
|
.capetown |
3.859 |
0.368 |
|
.joburg |
2.762 |
0.276 |
|
.durban |
1.980 |
0.198 |
|
web.za |
1.425 |
0.142 |
|
Net.za |
447 |
0.045 |
The following domains were the first to be registered in 1992, bksinc.co.za, paradigm.co.za and uiscpt.co.za
Prior to that, quite a number of sub-domains have been added to the .ZA country code top-level domain such as org.za, web.za, and net.za
This was followed by the introduction of three standard TLDs specifically designed for South Africa’s largest cities namely .joburg, .capetown, and .durban.