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

.durban TLD stats

.durban held 1,966 names in August 2025, as ZA Central Registry NPC trading as ZA Central Registry reported to ICANN; its zone file on 24 Oct 2026 carried 1,607. 28 registrars held names in it that month; the largest, Tucows Domains Inc., held 36.9%.

1,966
names, August 2025, reported to ICANN
1,607
in the zone file, 24 Oct 2026
28
registrars holding names

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, 12 registrars held 10 or more .durban names and the largest held 41%; by its eleventh, to October 2025, 12 did and the largest held 37%.

  1. 1 · to Oct 20152,7871241%
  2. 2 · to Oct 20162,5681243%
  3. 3 · to Oct 20172,4821340%
  4. 4 · to Oct 20182,3251542%
  5. 5 · to Oct 20192,3901543%
  6. 6 · to Oct 20202,1351146%
  7. 7 · to Oct 20211,8611141%
  8. 8 · to Oct 20222,6421439%
  9. 9 · to Oct 20232,3691235%
  10. 10 · to Oct 20242,3251233%
  11. 11 · to Oct 20251,9301237%

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

August 2025

Tucows Domains Inc. held 36.9% of .durban names in August 2025; the largest five together held 86.7%.

Shares add to 100%. From the registry's report for August 2025.

Cross-checkThe registry reported 1,966 names for Aug 2025; the zone on Oct 24, 2026 held 359 fewer. The two are counted differently and 14 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
0
left it
−1
changed nameservers
0
Net
−1
Oct 7, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero
How the zone is used · 1,607 names
  • Listed for salemarketplace nameservers221.4%
  • Parkedad-parking or expiry nameservers10.1%
  • In usehosting, registrar or DNS nameservers95159.2%
  • Not classifiednameservers we can’t name63339.4%

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.

how many names, month by month

to
Aug 2025 to Aug 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it. Reported to ICANN monthly. Sunrise Jul 2014 to Oct 2014; general registration Nov 2014.

everything else