AS6968 — ZACR

AS6968 announces 4 IPv4 prefixes covering 3,072 addresses and 3 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

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 196.29.0.0 and 196.216.0.0, plus a small block used for interconnect.
• Reverse DNS on the announced prefixes resolves under coza.net.za and dns.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.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 196.29.56.0/21
• 196.216.170.0/24
• 196.216.230.0/23
• 206.223.136.0/24
• 2001:43f8:30::/48
• 2001:43f8:100::/48
• 2001:43f8:790::/48

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS37271 Workonline Communications(Pty) Ltd
• AS30844 Liquid Telecommunications Ltd
• AS3741 Dimension Data
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS37271 Workonline Communications(Pty) Ltd
• AS30844 Liquid Telecommunications Ltd
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS3741 Dimension Data

Internet exchanges

• NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg — Johannesburg, South Africa
• Johannesburg Internet Exchange — Johannesburg, South Africa