Autonomous system
AS6968 ZACR
Unclassified APNIC
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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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.8.194 |
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.96.29 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 3.07K addresses IPv6 3 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS6968- Registry name
- ORG-US7-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- ZA CENTRAL REGISTRY NPC
- Registered
- 2005-02-21
- Last changed
- 2026-07-20
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 7 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 7 authorising AS6968
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 7 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS6968
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere