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Domain name registration South Africa(.za)
An .za is the extension for the registration of domain names from South Africa. Here are our prices, requirements and more information about registration of a domain name in South Africa.
General information .za
| Country |  South Africa (ZA) |
Purpose | Country Code Top Level Domain | Price per 1 year | € 9.50 |
| Renew fee per 1 year | € 9.50 | Setup fee | € 0 | Min. registration period | 1 year | IDN Support | IDN not available | Authcode (Transfer) | No Authcode needed |
| ac.za | |
| Purpose | Higher education and research institutions and related organisation |
| Price a year per 1 year | € 9.50 |
| Renew fee per 1 year | € 9.50 |
| Setup fee | € 12.50 |
| Restrictions: | |
| city.za | |
| Purpose | Official representatives of local government structures, municipalities, local business chambers and local tourism boards |
| Price a year per 1 year | € 9.50 |
| Renew fee per 1 year | € 9.50 |
| Setup fee | € 12.50 |
| Restrictions: | |
| co.za | |
| Purpose | Unlimited registration for everyone |
| Price a year per 1 year | € 9.50 |
| Renew fee per 1 year | € 9.50 |
| Setup fee | € 12.50 |
| Restrictions: | |
| There are no restrictions at this time. | |
| edu.za | |
| Purpose | Formally registered further education and training institutions |
| Price a year per 1 year | € 9.50 |
| Renew fee per 1 year | € 9.50 |
| Setup fee | € 12.50 |
| Restrictions: | |
| gov.za | |
| Purpose | Government departments or organisations |
| Price a year per 1 year | € 9.50 |
| Renew fee per 1 year | € 9.50 |
| Setup fee | € 12.50 |
| Restrictions: | |
| law.za | |
| Purpose | Practising Firms of Attorneys in good standing with their respective Law Society |
| Price a year per 1 year | € 9.50 |
| Renew fee per 1 year | € 9.50 |
| Setup fee | € 12.50 |
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| mil.za | |
| Purpose | Divisions or sections within the Department of Defence |
| Price a year per 1 year | € 9.50 |
| Renew fee per 1 year | € 9.50 |
| Setup fee | € 12.50 |
| Restrictions: | |
| nom.za | |
| Purpose | Individuals, no registrations by corporate entities are accepted |
| Price a year per 1 year | € 9.50 |
| Renew fee per 1 year | € 9.50 |
| Setup fee | € 12.50 |
| Restrictions: | |
| org.za | |
| Purpose | South African non-commercial organisations, in practice no registrations are rejected |
| Price a year per 1 year | € 9.50 |
| Renew fee per 1 year | € 9.50 |
| Setup fee | € 12.50 |
| Restrictions: | |
| school.za | |
| Purpose | Schools |
| Price a year per 1 year | € 9.50 |
| Renew fee per 1 year | € 9.50 |
| Setup fee | € 12.50 |
| Restrictions: | |
| Min Characters | 3 | Max Characters | 30 | Max registrations | Unlimited | Only company's | No | Local contact | No | Domain is company name | No | Reserved names | Not listed | Redemption period | 0 days |
| Nameservers preconfigured | No requirements |
| Nameservers on different subnet | No |
| Working mailexchanges | No |
To officially register, the network must be located in South Africa.
Only the letters a-z, digits 0-9 and hyphens will be accepted in a domain name. Case is not significant.
A domain name shall contain a minimum of three (3) characters and a maximum of fifty (30) characters.
A domain shall not begin or end with a hyphen.
A domain name shall not contain a hyphen as both its third and fourth characters until a policy for Internationalised Domain Names is in force. (e.g. xn--abcdef may not be registered.)
A domain name shall contain a minimum of three (3) characters and a maximum of fifty (30) characters.
A domain shall not begin or end with a hyphen.
A domain name shall not contain a hyphen as both its third and fourth characters until a policy for Internationalised Domain Names is in force. (e.g. xn--abcdef may not be registered.)
At present one may only register a domain on the third level (eg. name.sld.za). Please see the list of second level domains which will also direct you to registration information.
It is not possible to register a domain directly under the .za top level,
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.
It is not possible to register a domain directly under the .za top level,
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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