Stats
ccTLD · ZA Domain Name Authority

.za TLD stats

.za held 1,399,058 names in February 2025, by ZA Domain Name Authority’s own figures; by 22 Oct 2026 certificates had shown us 285,488 of them, confirmed in DNS.

1.40M
names, February 2025, the registry’s own figure
285,488
seen in certificates by 22 Oct 2026, a floor

Cross-checkThe registry reported 1,399,058 names for Feb 2025; by Oct 22, 2026 certificates had shown us 285,488 of them, 20.4%. A floor, not a count: a name that never appears in a certificate is not here, and one that does is counted only once DNS confirms it.

last night, in detail

Oct 22, 2026
What moved · on Oct 22, 2026
first seen by us
+15,493
gone from DNS
0
changed nameservers
0
Net
+15,493
Oct 17, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026 · axis starts at the data, not at zero

Names seen in certificate transparency logs and confirmed in DNS, as of Oct 22, 2026. A floor, not a count of the TLD: a name that never appears in a certificate is not here, and we hold no zone file for .za. The registry’s own figure is the count; this one says how much of it we can see name by name.

how many names, month by month

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Feb 2025 to Feb 2025

Names under management at month end, as the registry reported it.

everything else