.za is the Internet

Internet

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 country code

Country code

Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The best known of these is ISO 3166-1...

 top-level domain

Top-level domain

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 (ccTLD) for South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

. It is administered by the ZADNA.

None of the official names for South Africa

Official names of South Africa

There are eleven official names of South Africa, one in each of its eleven official languages. The number is surpassed only by India. These languages include English, Afrikaans, the Nguni languages Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele, and Swazi, as well as the Sotho languages, which include Tswana, Sotho and...

 can be abbreviated to ZA, which is an abbreviation of the Dutch

Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...

 Zuid-Afrika. This is a legacy of when Dutch was an official language in South Africa, before being replaced by Afrikaans

Afrikaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...

, in which the name of the country is Suid-Afrika. Afrikaans joined English and Dutch as an official language of South Africa in 1925 in a synonym-status with Dutch, and in the South African Constitution of 1961 Dutch was removed as an official language altogether and replaced by Afrikaans. In 1983 Dutch lost its synonym

Synonym

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-status with Afrikaans. However, the .sa

.sa

.sa is the Latin alphabet Internet country code top-level domain of Saudi Arabia. Domains of this type can be registered through SaudiNIC, a department of the Communication & Information Technology Commission...

 domain is used by Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

 and ZAR is the ISO 4217

ISO 4217

ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Standards Organization, which delineates currency designators, country codes , and references to minor units in three tables:* Table A.1 – Current currency & funds code list...

 currency code for the South African Rand.

The international vehicle code for South Africa has been ZA since 1936.

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
    Eastern Cape
    The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...
    
    
  • .fs.school.za - Free State
    Free State
    The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...
    
    
  • .gp.school.za - Gauteng
    Gauteng
    Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...
    
    
  • .kzn.school.za - Kwazulu-Natal
    KwaZulu-Natal
    KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....
    
    
  • .mpm.za - Mpumalanga
    Mpumalanga
    Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...
    
    
  • .ncape.school.za - Northern Cape
    Northern Cape
    The Northern Cape is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley. It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, part of an international park shared with Botswana...
    
    
  • .lp.school.za - Limpopo
    Limpopo
    Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...
    
    
  • .nw.school.za - North West
    North West (South African province)
    North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng.-History:...
    
    
  • .wcape.school.za - Western Cape
    Western Cape
    The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...
    
    

Dormant

• .alt.za - Historical registrants
• .net.work.za - Network infrastructure.
• .ngo.za - for non-governmental organizations. New registrations pending .za DNA public consultation process
• .tm.za - for trademark
  Trademark
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  s. 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
  Olivetti
  Olivetti S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines.- Founding :The company was founded as a typewriter manufacturer in 1908 in Ivrea, near Turin, by Camillo Olivetti. The firm was mainly developed by his son Adriano Olivetti...
  
  /Mark Elkins
• .pix.za - Proxima Information Exchange

Flagged for deletion

• .db.za - De Beers
  De Beers
  De Beers is a family of companies that dominate the diamond, diamond mining, diamond trading and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors. De Beers is active in every category of industrial diamond mining: open-pit, underground, large-scale alluvial, coastal and deep sea...
  
  
• .imt.za - Institute for Maritime Technology
• .landesign.za - Lan Design (no longer exists)

External links

• IANA .za whois information
• .co.za domain registration website
• .nom.za domain registration website