African domains: South Africa (.co.za)
South African Domain Name Check: When entering your search string don't write “www” or the South African domain type, ie. “co.za”. Therefore to search “www.nominate.co.za” enter “nominate” and nothing else.
The only letters allowed within a domain name are: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z - 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Spaces are NOT ALLOWED.
Registration:
To register search for its availabilty in the box above and then buy domain names.
Once the domain is registered
All South African domain names registered with us are stored on our international server. Domains registered with us are automatically provided with their own under-construction page - this notifies potential registrants that the name has been acquired and is now registered. The under-construction page is offered free of charge and may be used indefinitely.
It is possible for Web and/or Mail forwarding to be provided for South African domains.
Domain transfer/release fees are charged are by a majority of registrars, but Nominate make no charge to transfer a domain to another South African domain name registrar.
Background
.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 o 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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