.za history of usage: "ZAR" serves as the ISO 4217 currency code for the South African rand. The international vehicle code for South Africa has been "ZA" since 1936. Additionally, South African aircraft registration prefixes also start with "Z". .ZA has a Second Level Domain (SLD) Structure. ZADNA removed a number of domains from the .za zone on the 7 August 2009 Currently around 29.39% of the .za internet is served via secured HTTPS protocol, with the Let's Encrypt Authority X3 being the most popular SSL certificate. Apache is the most popular web server, serving 66.56% of the .za domains, followed
Za (guilds) The name may have also come, more simply, from the idea of merchants within a guild or association sharing a seat or platform in the marketplace. The earliest "za" came into being in the 12th century, consisting not only of trade guilds, but also guilds of performers and entertainers. Even today, performers of "kabuki" and "noh" are in associations called "za" (see Kabuki-za). The "za" trade guilds appeared as a major force in the 14th century, and lasted in their original forms through the end of the 16th, when other guilds and trade organizations arose and subsumed the "za". While