.joburg

2,162 domains as of 24 Sep 2026

Domains
2,162
24 Sep 2026
30-day change
–
–
Signed in root
✔ Yes
DS record present
Type
Generic
ASCII
Registrar figures are for December 2023. 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.joburg/rdap
Zone data
CZDS access approved — counted daily

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Of the 2,598 domains that came up for renewal between Jun 2025 and May 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate
71.79%
below .com/.net/.org
Renewed
1,865
in twelve months
Deleted
733
in twelve months

For comparison, the median new gTLD keeps 68.45% and .com, .net and .org together keep 73.23%.

Registrar share

individual · combined

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Related accreditations combined into corporate families, folding 2 of the 30 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

Month ‹ › Dec 2023 latest
Tucows — 1,023 (35.29%)Diamatrix C.C. — 918 (31.67%)Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu — 383 (13.21%)Lexsynergy Limited — 187 (6.45%)DNS Africa Ltd — 102 (3.52%)MarkMonitor Inc. — 65 (2.24%)Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE — 45 (1.55%)1API GmbH — 24 (0.83%)Key-Systems — 23 (0.79%)Gandi SAS — 18 (0.62%)Other — 111 (3.83%)
2.90kreported Dec 2023
Share of .joburg by registrar
Tucows2 accreditations1,02335.29%
Diamatrix C.C.91831.67%
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu38313.21%
Lexsynergy Limited1876.45%
DNS Africa Ltd1023.52%
MarkMonitor Inc.652.24%
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE451.55%
1API GmbH240.83%
Key-Systems230.79%
Gandi SAS180.62%
Other20 more1113.83%

Domains by month, May 2016 – May 2026

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

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.

May 2016 – May 2026 1y 3y 5y 10y All
2,0852,5122,9403,3673,794May 2016May 2021May 2026
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MonthDomainsChangeRegistrarsNet addsDeletes
May 2026 2,203 ▼ -91 28 61 130
Apr 2026 2,294 ▼ -113 28 9 145
Mar 2026 2,407 ▼ -20 28 21 35
Feb 2026 2,427 ▼ -22 28 21 47
Jan 2026 2,449 ▼ -23 28 13 30
Dec 2025 2,472 ▼ -51 28 12 70

Showing the latest 6 of 121 months in this range. Show all 121.

Domains by day, 31 Aug 2026 – 24 Sep 2026

Source: Daily zone files

Counted from daily zone files. Names with at least one NS record or a DS record.

31 Aug 2026 – 24 Sep 2026
31 Aug 26 — first counted. Daily counting starts here, when the zone became available to us. The monthly chart above reaches further back, because those figures come from the registry rather than the zone.2,1612,1652,1692,1722,17631 Aug 2612 Sep 2624 Sep 26
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  • 31 Aug 26, first counted — Daily counting starts here, when the zone became available to us. The monthly chart above reaches further back, because those figures come from the registry rather than the zone.

Daily change

Source: Daily zone files

Day-over-day difference of the zone's name list, over the same window as the chart above.

  • Added
  • Dropped
31 Aug 26 — first counted. Daily counting starts here, when the zone became available to us. The monthly chart above reaches further back, because those figures come from the registry rather than the zone.+50-531 Aug 2624 Sep 26
  • 31 Aug 26, first counted — Daily counting starts here, when the zone became available to us. The monthly chart above reaches further back, because those figures come from the registry rather than the zone.

Registrars

Registrar figures are for May 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. 901
31.1%
▲ +7 1 5
Diamatrix C.C. 538
18.6%
▲ +5 0 5
Lexsynergy Limited 198
6.8%
▲ +2 0 1
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu 144
5%
0 0 56
Host Africa (Pty.) Ltd. 98
3.4%
▲ +44 0 32
DNS Africa Ltd 79
2.7%
▲ +1 0 3
MarkMonitor Inc. 64
2.2%
0 0 0
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE 57
2%
0 0 0
Key-Systems, LLC 22
0.8%
0 0 0
NETIM SAS 17
0.6%
0 0 7
101domain GRS Limited 11
0.4%
0 0 0
1API GmbH 10
0.3%
0 0 0
united-domains GmbH 9
0.3%
▲ +1 0 1
Gandi SAS 8
0.3%
0 0 17
PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com 8
0.3%
▲ +1 0 1
IONOS SE 6
0.2%
0 0 0
Ascio Technologies, Inc. Danmark - Filial af Ascio technologies, Inc. USA 6
0.2%
0 0 0
Safenames Ltd 3
0.1%
0 0 0
EuroDNS S.A. 3
0.1%
0 0 0
Dreamscape Networks International Pte Ltd 3
0.1%
0 0 0
Instra Corporation Pty Ltd. 3
0.1%
0 0 0
INWX GmbH 3
0.1%
0 0 0
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd. 3
0.1%
0 0 2
COREhub, S.R.L. 2
0.1%
0 0 0
InterNetX GmbH 2
0.1%
0 0 0
Realtime Register B.V. 2
0.1%
0 0 0
Marcaria International LLC 2
0.1%
0 0 0
Mesh Digital Limited 1
0%
0 0 0

Registry activity

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

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 Transfers approved Rejected
May 2026 28 6 57.80k 61 0 173 0 0
Apr 2026 28 6 71.59k 9 0 111 – –
Mar 2026 28 9 73.22k 21 0 165 – –
Feb 2026 28 339 48.11k 21 0 105 – –
Jan 2026 28 369 62.25k 13 57 114 – –
Dec 2025 28 402 71.46k 12 0 232 – –
Nov 2025 28 450 71.18k 16 3 298 – –
Oct 2025 28 0 0 23 5 224 – –
Sep 2025 29 582 73.03k 8 6 108 – –
Aug 2025 28 543 80.26k 13 2 123 – –
Jul 2025 29 648 56.08k 12 2 116 – –
Jun 2025 29 846 79.76k 13 32 96 – –
May 2025 30 0 0 16 4 164 – –
Apr 2025 30 27 71.00k 124 81 259 – –
Mar 2025 29 18 43.56k 25 6 174 – –
Feb 2025 29 121.61k 79.36k 35 36 144 – –
Jan 2025 29 126.43k 51.12k 26 14 126 – –
Dec 2024 29 133.28k 64.22k 21 9 262 – –
Nov 2024 29 140.29k 61.15k 40 11 334 – –
Oct 2024 29 148.07k 67.28k 47 40 222 – –
Sep 2024 29 156.69k 79.82k 42 1 124 – –
Aug 2024 29 141.71k 66.06k 29 30 127 – –
Jul 2024 29 149.44k 64.95k 66 4 116 – –
Jun 2024 29 160.21k 71.64k 40 32 102 – –
May 2024 29 171.11k 65.34k 33 2 197 – –
Apr 2024 29 180.98k 56.90k 38 4 143 – –
Mar 2024 29 193.80k 48.08k 42 75 321 – –
Feb 2024 30 202.63k 64.68k 28 3 126 – –
Jan 2024 30 214.94k 48.28k 38 43 104 – –
Dec 2023 0 0 0 29 0 103 – –
Nov 2023 0 0 0 48 0 177 – –
Oct 2023 0 0 0 206 0 319 – –
Sep 2023 0 0 0 42 0 264 – –
Aug 2023 0 0 0 35 0 178 – –
Jul 2023 0 0 0 48 0 124 – –
Jun 2023 2 0 0 25 0 98 – –
May 2023 0 0 0 34 0 115 – –
Apr 2023 0 0 0 28 0 111 – –
Mar 2023 0 0 0 43 0 143 – –
Feb 2023 1 0 0 45 0 422 – –
Jan 2023 0 0 0 37 0 176 – –
Dec 2022 0 0 0 26 0 93 – –
Nov 2022 0 0 0 42 0 182 – –
Oct 2022 1 0 0 38 0 355 – –
Sep 2022 0 0 0 51 0 233 – –
Aug 2022 0 0 0 187 0 164 – –
Jul 2022 0 0 0 53 0 105 – –
Jun 2022 1 0 0 102 0 95 – –
May 2022 1 0 0 89 0 105 – –
Apr 2022 0 0 0 99 0 96 – –
Mar 2022 0 0 0 414 0 96 – –
Feb 2022 0 0 0 34 0 146 – –
Jan 2022 1 0 0 21 0 246 – –
Dec 2021 0 0 0 15 0 88 – –
Nov 2021 0 0 0 27 0 177 – –
Oct 2021 2 0 0 31 0 397 – –
Sep 2021 1 0 0 23 0 194 – –
Aug 2021 0 0 0 23 0 145 – –
Jul 2021 1 0 0 24 0 100 – –
Jun 2021 0 0 0 20 0 103 – –
May 2021 0 0 0 17 0 89 – –
Apr 2021 0 0 0 18 0 111 – –
Mar 2021 2 0 0 28 0 105 – –
Feb 2021 0 0 0 27 0 150 – –
Jan 2021 0 0 0 16 0 226 – –
Dec 2020 0 0 0 20 0 99 – –
Nov 2020 0 0 0 21 0 188 – –
Oct 2020 0 0 0 27 0 427 – –
Sep 2020 0 0 0 43 0 259 – –
Aug 2020 0 0 0 38 0 155 – –
Jul 2020 0 0 0 29 0 101 – –
Jun 2020 0 0 0 27 0 113 – –
May 2020 0 0 0 37 0 106 – –
Apr 2020 0 0 0 41 0 106 – –
Mar 2020 0 0 0 33 0 109 – –
Feb 2020 0 0 0 100 0 164 – –
Jan 2020 0 0 0 21 0 262 – –
Dec 2019 0 0 0 19 0 126 – –
Nov 2019 0 0 0 22 0 235 – –
Oct 2019 0 0 0 50 0 514 – –
Sep 2019 1 0 0 58 0 221 – –
Aug 2019 0 0 0 36 0 166 – –
Jul 2019 0 0 0 47 0 101 – –
Jun 2019 1 0 0 38 0 99 – –
May 2019 0 0 0 37 0 93 – –
Apr 2019 0 0 0 38 0 78 – –
Mar 2019 0 0 0 117 0 80 – –
Feb 2019 0 0 0 146 0 105 – –
Jan 2019 0 0 0 34 0 237 – –
Dec 2018 0 0 0 18 0 121 – –
Nov 2018 1 0 0 43 0 265 – –
Oct 2018 1 0 0 47 0 688 – –
Sep 2018 0 0 0 39 0 166 – –
Aug 2018 1 0 0 44 0 181 – –
Jul 2018 2 0 0 64 0 178 – –
Jun 2018 0 0 0 70 0 117 – –
May 2018 0 0 0 41 0 124 – –
Apr 2018 0 0 0 39 0 114 – –
Mar 2018 0 0 0 38 0 107 – –
Feb 2018 1 0 0 57 0 136 – –

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 May 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.