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| Introduced | 1990 |
|---|---|
| TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | ZADNA |
| Sponsor | ZADNA |
| Intended use | Entities connected with  South Africa |
| Actual use | Popular in South Africa |
| Registration restrictions | None in .co.za; various restrictions in other subdomains |
| Structure | Registrations are only taken at third level beneath various second-level labels |
| Documents | Articles of Association of ZADNA |
| Dispute policies | Under development |
| Website | ZADNA |
.za is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for South Africa. It is administered by the ZADNA.
None of the official names for South Africa can be abbreviated to ZA, which is an abbreviation of the Dutch Zuid-Afrika. This is a legacy of when Dutch was an official language in South Africa, before being replaced by Afrikaans, in which the name of the country is Suid-Afrika. Afrikaans joined English and Dutch as an official language of the South Africa in 1925, and in the South African Constitution of 1961 Dutch was removed as an official language altogether, decades before .za was introduced. However, the .sa domain is used by Saudi Arabia and ZAR is also the ISO 4217 currency code for the South African Rand.
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2nd level domains
Open and Active
- .ac.za - academic and tertiary societies
- .city.za - for municipal governments. Domain registration coming soon.
- .co.za - commercial, general use
- .edu.za - for distance learning institutions
- .gov.za - government departments
- .law.za - for legal firms
- .mil.za - military institutions
- .nom.za - for personal names, not organizations
- .org.za - for 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
Dormant
- .alt.za - Historical registrants
- .net.za - Network infrastructure.
- .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
- .web.za - only for web servers. New registration system under development.
Unresponsive
- .bourse.za - for all companies which are listed on the JSE Securities Exchange
Private
- .agric.za - ARC & Company
- .cybernet.za - Infront Investments Five cc
- .grondar.za - Mark R V Murray
- .iaccess.za - Compustat
- .inca.za - Internetworking Cape
- .nis.za - Network Information Systems
- .olivetti.za - Olivetti/Mark Elkins
- .pix.za - Proxima Information Exchange
Flagged for deletion
- .db.za - De Beers
- .imt.za - Institute for Maritime Technology
- .landesign.za - Lan Design (no longer exists)
External links
- IANA .za whois information
- ZADNA
- .co.za domain registration website
- .nom.za domain registration website
Wikipedia content modification information:
- This page was last modified on 24 November 2008, at 18:18.
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