Stats
New gTLD · delegated 2014-06 · ZA Central Registry NPC trading as ZA Central Registry

.capetown TLD stats

.capetown held 3,616 names in June 2026, as ZA Central Registry NPC trading as ZA Central Registry reported to ICANN; a third-party estimate put it at about 3,518 in October 2026; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 3,520.

3,616
names, June 2026, reported to ICANN
3,520
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026

Names since general availability, November 2014

Names on the books at the end of each year since general availability, from the registry's monthly reports to ICANN, through May 2026. The marked point is the zone count of 24 Oct 2026, a different count taken on one night.

Year by year since launch, as the registry reported it

In its first year, to October 2015, 17 registrars held 10 or more .capetown names and the largest held 44%; by its eleventh, to October 2025, 15 did and the largest held 47%.

  1. 1 · to Oct 20155,3611744%
  2. 2 · to Oct 20164,8111851%
  3. 3 · to Oct 20174,8721849%
  4. 4 · to Oct 20184,7651852%
  5. 5 · to Oct 20194,8211854%
  6. 6 · to Oct 20204,3171455%
  7. 7 · to Oct 20213,7631550%
  8. 8 · to Oct 20224,3041640%
  9. 9 · to Oct 20234,3411643%
  10. 10 · to Oct 20244,5541745%
  11. 11 · to Oct 20254,0921547%

Year 1 starts at general availability and each year is labelled by the month it ends. Registrars with 10 or more names and the largest registrar's share are read at that month. A year with fewer than nine monthly reports is left blank.

Who sells it

May 2026

Tucows Domains Inc. held 50.1% of .capetown names in May 2026; the largest five together held 88.4%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for May 2026.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 3,616 names for Jun 2026; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 96 fewer. The two are counted differently and 4 months apart: a registered name that is not delegated never appears in the zone, and a zone file is read on one night, a report at a month's end.

last night, in detail

Oct 24, 2026
What moved · on Oct 24, 2026
entered the zone
+2
left it
−3
changed nameservers
1
Net
−1
Oct 7, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 3,520 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers300.9%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers20.1%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers2,28664.9%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name1,20234.1%

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: 0.0%. List 2026.09.7+psl4b673689.

Counted from the registry’s own zone file on the night of Oct 24, 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.

Oct 2026: 3,518 — third-party estimate; the registry has not published that month yet.

how many names, month by month

Nov 2016 to Oct 2026

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Dashed months are third-party estimates. Sunrise Jul 2014 to Oct 2014; general registration Nov 2014.

everything else