.za by Microsoft-IIS serving 11.60% of the total .za domains. The most common 1st character in domain names is "c", with 10.76% of .za domains starting with this character. .za .za is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for South Africa. The .za namespace is managed and regulated by the .za Domain Name Authority (ZADNA). Most domains are registered under the second-level domain .co.za. None of the official names for South Africa can be abbreviated to ZA, which is an abbreviation of the Dutch "Zuid-Afrika". Dutch was considered an official language in the Union of South Africa until 1961; it
Za (guilds) over 130 years. However, the "za" continued to operate, and perhaps became even more powerful as the ability to safely travel and transport goods across the nation became increasingly scarce. Towards the end of the 16th century, one hundred years into the Sengoku period, Oda Nobunaga briefly took command of the country, and established "free" markets and guilds, known respectively as "rakuichi" (楽市) and "rakuza" (楽座). These dealt a severe blow to the power and influence of the older, monopolistic "za", but did not replace them. Several other types of trade associations came into being around this time as well;