FAQ

Yes, depending on the .za SLD you are considering. Not all SLDs have readily available Whois information for now.

Usually, you need to pay a registration fee and then pay a renewal fee annually to keep hold of your name.

No, ZADNA cannot advise people about suitable registrars.

No, ZADNA only administers and manages the .za namespace.

There is no overall policy prohibiting non-South Africans from registering .za names, but most .za SLDs, especially the moderated ones, limit eligibility to South African persons.

No, domain name registrations under .za are currently not allowed – one may only register a domain name under an SLD (e.g. yourname.org.za).

The country codes were established by the International Standards Organisation (ISO) before the domain name system.

In its origin, the DNS provides a platform for competition, innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development. Competition occurs at various levels between ccTLDs, between ccTLDs and gTLDs and between registries and registrars.

This is because the demand for the .za domain name ADR procedure has previously concerned commercial domain names under co.za sub-domains. For sometime there was no apparent demand to extend the application of the procedure to other

Cyber-squatting occurs mainly as a result of the simple first-come, first-served nature of registering domain names.