New registrations this month
1,862 domains/month
Generic extension · Broad
.africa
.africa is a generic top-level domain listed in the authoritative IANA Root Zone Database. Its listed manager is ZA Central Registry NPC trading as Registry.Africa.
- RegistryZA Central Registry NPC trading as Registry.Africa
- Metrics held27
- With history0
Signal profile
- Brevity 75
- Namespace depth 23
- RDAP readiness 100
- DNSSEC 100
- NS breadth 38
- Registration scale 57
- Domains
- 57.6K domains
- Active registrars
- 55 registrar accounts
- DNS queries
- 429 queries/month
Everything on record
27 reported metrics for .africa
Grouped as the registry reports them. Each figure carries its source, when it was observed and a quality grade, and any metric with a trend can be opened for its full history.
Attempted registrations
0 attempts/month
Deletions this month
1,687 domains/month
Multi-year registration share
0% ratio
Registered nameservers
21.2K nameservers
Renewals this month
3,065 domains/month
Restores this month
0 domains/month
Successful inbound transfers
65 transfers/month
Registered domains
57.6K domains
ICANN application ID
1-1243-89583
Registry contract signed
24 Mar 2014 date
Registry contract terminated
No
Delegated to the root
15 Feb 2017 date
Contracted registry operator
ZA Central Registry NPC trading as Registry.Africa
Specification 13 brand TLD
No
Third-level registration
No
Registrar accounts with domains
55 registrar accounts
Registrar concentration
10.14% index
Reporting registrar accounts
55 registrar accounts
Top five registrar share
64.22% ratio
Largest registrar share
18.32% ratio
DNS queries received
429 queries/month
DNS response ratio
100% ratio
Operational registrars
55 registrars
Registration-data queries
587.2K queries/month
Registry availability checks
1.51M commands/month
Registry create commands
1,863 commands/month
Root zone and registry agreement
The facts that do not change monthly
Delegation, operator and protocol support, taken from the IANA root zone and the ICANN registry agreement data.
- Registry manager
- ZA Central Registry NPC trading as Registry.Africa
- Registry operator
- ZA Central Registry NPC trading as Registry.Africa
- Delegated to the root
- 15 February 2017
- Registry contract signed
- 24 March 2014
- Authoritative nameservers
- 3
- DNSSEC signed
- Yes
- RDAP available
- Yes
- Internationalised label
- No
- Third-level registration
- No
- Specification 13 brand TLD
- No
IANA Root Zone Database
ICANN registry agreement
ICANN gTLD contract data
ICANN gTLD contract data
IANA root zone
Root delegation DS record
IANA RDAP bootstrap registry
IANA root zone
ICANN registry agreement
ICANN registry agreement
Namespace beneath .africa
1 ICANN boundary rules Registration boundaries recognised beneath this TLD.
0 Private boundary rules Privately operated suffixes, such as hosting subdomains.
Where this comes from
Every figure is traceable
Nothing on this page is estimated or modelled. Each metric names the source it came from and the month it was observed, and a metric with no observation is shown as unknown rather than filled with a zero.
- ICANN gTLD Registry Agreement Data View source
- ICANN Monthly Registry Activity Reports View source
- ICANN Monthly Registry Reports View source
- TLD registry-published statistics View source
Enrichment snapshot generated . Registry reporting runs a month or two behind, so the newest observation is rarely this month.
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