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Introduced
  
1990

Registry
  
ZADNA

Status
  
Active

Sponsor
  
ZADNA

TLD type
  
Country code top-level domain

Intended use
  
Entities connected with South Africa

.za is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for South Africa. It is administered by the .za Domain Name Authority (ZADNA).

Contents

Map of South Africa

None of the official names for South Africa can be abbreviated to ZA, which is an abbreviation of the Dutch Zuid-Afrika. Dutch was considered an official language in the Union of South Africa until 1961; it subsequently lost its synonymous status with Afrikaans in 1983. Suid-Afrika is the standard spelling in Afrikaans; however, the .sa domain is used by Saudi Arabia. Zuid-Afrika has a history of usage: ZAR serves as the ISO 4217 currency code for the South African rand.

Even the international vehicle code for South Africa has been "ZA" since 1936.

Open and active

  • .ac.za - South African academic and tertiary societies
  • .co.za - general use by South African and non-South African persons and entities
  • .edu.za - South African further education training and private colleges
  • .gov.za - South African government & its departments and entities
  • .law.za - South African legal firms
  • .mil.za - South African Department of Defense & its institutions
  • .net.za - primarily for network & internet infrastructure providers
  • .nom.za - personal names, not organizations
  • .org.za - primarily for South African non-commercial entities.
  • .school.za - for schools in South Africa
  • .ecape.school.za - Eastern Cape
  • .fs.school.za - Free State
  • .gp.school.za - Gauteng
  • .kzn.school.za - Kwazulu-Natal
  • .mpm.school.za - Mpumalanga
  • .ncape.school.za - Northern Cape
  • .lp.school.za - Limpopo
  • .nw.school.za - North West
  • .wcape.school.za - Western Cape
  • .web.za - general use by South Africans & non-South Africans

    • Dormant

  • .alt.za - Historical registrants
  • .ngo.za - for non-governmental organizations. New registrations pending .za DNA public consultation process
  • .tm.za - for trademarks. On hold pending establishment of the .ZA DNA

    • Private

  • .agric.za - ARC & Company
  • .grondar.za - Mark R V Murray
  • .nis.za - Network Information Systems

    • Former (deleted)

    ZADNA removed a number of domains from the .za zone on the 7 August 2009

  • .bourse.za - for all companies which are listed on the JSE Securities Exchange
  • .city.za - for municipal governments.
  • .cybernet.za - Infront Investments Five cc
  • .db.za - De Beers
  • .iaccess.za - Compustat
  • .imt.za - Institute for Maritime Technology
  • .inca.za - Internetworking Cape
  • .landesign.za - Lan Design (no longer exists)
  • .olivetti.za - Olivetti/Mark Elkins
  • .pix.za - Proxima Information Exchange

    • References

    .za Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA