Country extension
.africa.com domain name
What you need to know about .africa.com: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .africa.com
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 10 years
- Domain name length
- 4 to 30 characters
- Renewal on transfer
- yes, transferring renews the domain
- Transfer code length
- 6 to 16 characters
- Transfer lock available
- yes
- Number of nameservers
- 2 to 5
- Quarantine after deletion
- 20 days
Features
- DNSSEC: yesYou can secure your domain name with DNSSEC.
- IPv6: yesThe nameservers for this extension can also be reached over IPv6.
- Special characters: no
- Whois privacy: no
- Trustee: no
Requirements
Who can register a .africa.com?
- There are no special requirements for .africa.com. Anyone can register a domain name.
Transfer
Transferring a .africa.com
- You need a signed request from the domain name's registrant before the transfer is started.
- After the request, the registrant or the administrative contact receives a confirmation email at the address listed in the WHOIS. The transfer only starts once you confirm that email.
- The request then goes via the registry to your current registrar. They also send the registrant or the administrative contact an email that lets you refuse the transfer.
- If you don't respond to the email from your current registrar, the transfer is completed automatically after 5 days. A transfer takes 5 days in total.
- If the email address in the WHOIS is incorrect, the transfer can't go ahead. In that case, ask your current registrar to update the details first.
- The domain name must not be locked against transfers. You can see this in the WHOIS. As the registrant, you can ask your current registrar to remove the lock.
- The domain name must be older than 60 days, otherwise the transfer will be refused.
- Start the transfer in plenty of time, not just before the domain name expires.
The transfer code
- To transfer a .africa.com domain name, you need a transfer code.
- As the registrant or administrative contact, you get the transfer code from your current registrar.
- Check beforehand that the code is correct, because the transfer will fail with an incorrect code.
Compiled from the registry's rules. Registries sometimes change their rules; if in doubt, the registry's terms take precedence. Updated on 11/11/2026.
