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HOSTAFRICA

Hosting provider
🌐 hostafrica.com📍 Cape Town, South Africa🎛 cPanel
77K
Domains · #269
0.02%
Market share
+1.9%
30-day growth
+1K
Domains · 30d
cPanel
Control panel
Domain flow 30 days · DNS
+1K
Gained
−3K
Lost
−1K
Net
Where clients come from · top sources
Where domains go · top destinations
Above.com−64
Geographic footprint top markets
🇿🇦South Africa37%
🇰🇪Kenya17%
🇳🇬Nigeria11%
🇬🇧United Kingdom0%
🇮🇴British Indian Ocean Territory0%
🇨🇴Colombia0%
🌐Rest of world32%
Top TLDs by domains
.co.za37%
.com22%
.co.ke15%
.com.ng7%
.org3%
.africa2%
Infrastructure footprint measured by webhosting.today · 2026-09-02
44%
On own network
129
Median days tracked
Where client domains actually run · top networks by domains
Host-Africa-AS2, ZA own44%
Host-Africa-AS, ZA36.9%
AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US4%
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US2.8%
FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US2.2%
Registrar business ICANN monthly reports · 2026-03
12K
gTLD domains (ICANN)
+190
Net adds / month
+71
Transfer balance
Domains under management · 2025-10 → 2026-03
Top TLDs registered
.com9K
.org2K
.net501
.xyz227
.biz59
.online41
ICANN counts registered gTLD domains for Web4Africa Ltd. (IANA #664); the profile's domain total is our DNS measurement of domains served - different metrics, published with ~5 months' delay.
Corporate timeline funding · M&A · milestones
2026-05-14
Acquired company Zanode
HOSTAFRICA acquired Zanode developer platform source
2026-05-05
Acquired company Evoweb
HOSTAFRICA acquired Evoweb hosting division source
2025
Acquired company GO54 / WhoGoHost (Nigeria)
HOSTAFRICA acquired GO54 (formerly WhoGoHost) - direction: HOSTAFRICA is the acquirer source
2024
Acquired company eepAfrica (Kenya)
HOSTAFRICA acquired eepAfrica - direction: HOSTAFRICA is the acquirer source
2008-08-21
Founded
Founded as Cloud to Machine (Pty) Ltd on 21 Aug 2008; rebranded to HOSTAFRICA on 9 Mar 2017; host-ww.net redirects to hostafrica.com source
Acquired company DomainKing (Nigeria)
HOSTAFRICA acquired DomainKing - direction: HOSTAFRICA is the acquirer source
Acquired company EAC Directory (Kenya)
HOSTAFRICA acquired EAC Directory - direction: HOSTAFRICA is the acquirer source
Acquired company Web4Africa (Nigeria/Ghana)
HOSTAFRICA acquired Web4Africa - direction: HOSTAFRICA is the acquirer source
Company details
HeadquartersCape Town, South Africa
Control panelcPanel
Total domains77K
Market rank#269
Leadership
Founder and CEO
Chief Operating Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Company facts
Legal nameHost Africa (Pty) LtdRDAP · 2026-07
City12 Helena Avenue, Cape Town, South Africa 7441~RDAP · 2026-07
Domain registered1999-06-19RDAP · 2026-07
Network & infrastructure
Own networkAS329184 · ORG-CTML1-AFRINICeditorial · 2026-09
IPv4 addresses14336RIR · 2026-08
Networks (ASNs)3RIR · 2026-08
ASN allocated2014-10-30RIR · 2026-08
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About this data

How it is collected. Market Insights is built entirely from publicly observable data: domains seen across the internet and the DNS servers that answer for them. We attribute each domain to a provider based on the DNS infrastructure serving it, and aggregate those signals into the figures shown here.

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