Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2017-02 · ZA Central Registry NPC trading as Registry.Africa

.africa TLD stats

Feb 2017 to Aug 2026
Names in the zone
61,549
Oct 13, 2026, 01:01 UTC · registry zone file
Domains under management
58,767
May 2026 · registry report
Last night’s movement
+32
94 in · 62 out
Listed for sale
0.9%
584 names · of the zone

Cross-checkThe registry reported 58,767 domains under management for May 2026 — +2,782 against last night’s zone. Undelegated and on-hold names never reach the zone, so the two will not agree, and neither is wrong.

last night, in detail

Oct 13, 2026
What moved · on Oct 13, 2026
entered the zone
+94
left it
−62
changed nameservers
43
Net
+32
Oct 7, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 61,549 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers5840.9%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers480.1%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers41,44067.3%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name19,47731.6%

Read from each name’s nameservers on the night shown. Listed and parked are counted separately.

How we classify
A name takes the row its nameservers match on our provider list. Verification nameservers sit beside a name’s other nameservers, so they overlap the rows above: 0.5%. List 2026.09.7+psl4b673689.

Counted from the registry’s own zone file on the night of Oct 13, 2026. A zone count is not domains under management: a registered name that is not delegated never appears in the zone, and a name on hold leaves the zone while it stays registered. The two numbers will not agree, and neither is wrong.

Aug 2026: 59,148 — third-party estimate; the registry has not published that month yet.

how many names

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Dashed months are third-party estimates. Sunrise Apr 2017 to Jun 2017; general registration Jul 2017.

everything else