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

.africa TLD stats

to
May 2025 to May 2025
Names in the zone
61,549
Oct 13, 2026, 01:01 UTC · registry zone file
Domains under management
55,550
May 2025 · 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 55,550 domains under management for May 2025 — +5,999 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.

how many names

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Apr 2017 to Jun 2017; general registration Jul 2017.

everything else