Autonomous system
AS6968 ZACR
Unclassified
Summary
ZA Central Registry NPC
enterprise legacy
ZA CENTRAL REGISTRY NPC (ZACR) is the non-profit company that operates South Africa's .za domain registry, including co.za, the country's dominant second-level domain. It also runs the ICANN-contracted registries for .africa, .joburg, .capetown and .durban. Registered with AFRINIC, offices in Midrand.
What it's used for
- Domain-registry and authoritative DNS infrastructure. The announced space is a mix of AFRINIC blocks in
196.29.0.0and196.216.0.0, plus a small block used for interconnect. - Reverse DNS on the announced prefixes resolves under
coza.net.zaanddns.net.za, which is registry and nameserver infrastructure operated with its long-standing technical partner.
Notable
- This is a registry operator, not an ISP or a host. Its address space exists to serve DNS and EPP registry systems, so it does not fit the usual eyeball/hosting/transit buckets.
- ZACR traces back to UniForum SA, established in 1988, and transitioned into the ZA Registry Consortium (ZARC) joint venture in 2022.
- Its IPv6 presence is proportionally large for the size of its IPv4 footprint, which is typical of DNS-serving infrastructure.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 7 |
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere