domains.co.za True BusinessID®, ZAR 1,859.00/yr. on SSL Certificates

True BusinessID® has been added on Dec 17, 2025, Aggregate Rating (9 out of 10 from 1 reviews)

🔐 Domains protected :	1
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsWire Transfer
🔨 Control Panel :	CPanel
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeLive Chat
⚑ Targeting :	ZA
💰 Money-back guarantee :	60 days

See also initial True BusinessID® plan location on their website!

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📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

Domains.co.za is a South African domain registrar and hosting provider aimed primarily at SMEs, entrepreneurs, and local businesses that want an affordable, professional online presence. They operate as a division of DiaMatrix, active since 2001, and positioned as one of Africa’s leading, ICANN-accredited registrars with more than two decades of operational experience.

The core of the business is domains plus a broad hosting stack. On the domain side, they cover hundreds of extensions, from .co.za and .africa to a wide range of gTLDs. Customers can register, transfer, bulk-order, and manage domains, use WHOIS search, and add WHOIS privacy. There is also an AI Domain Name Generator for brainstorming names and tools for bulk registrations and transfers, which make the platform attractive for agencies and resellers.

On the hosting side, their main shared product is cPanel Web Hosting, offered as SSD/NVMe-based packages with free domain registration on selected extensions, unlimited traffic, daily backups and free SSL certificates. These plans are clearly pitched at small to medium websites that need stable performance without managing servers. WordPress Hosting is a separate, optimized line built to "super-charge" WordPress and WooCommerce, combining local hosting with performance tweaks, unlimited traffic, free domain registration on certain tiers, and one-click installations.

Email-only hosting is an important standalone service: packages scale from a handful of mailboxes up to hundreds of accounts, all with NVMe storage, unlimited traffic, spam and antivirus filtering, IMAP/POP3, free SSL on mail, webmail access, free email migration and daily off-site backups via Acronis. For many small businesses this is a pragmatic way to get professional email on their own domain without full web hosting.

Higher up the stack, Linux and Windows VPS hosting is built on AMD EPYC CPUs, SuperMicro hardware and redundant NVMe RAID, with guaranteed resources, KVM virtualisation, dual-stack IPv4/IPv6, private 10 Gbps networking, and a 99.9% uptime SLA. Plans come with full root/admin access, free monthly backups (upgradeable to more frequent snapshots), and instant activation when paying via card or instant EFT.

There is also a Managed cPanel Hosting line where customers receive their own cPanel VM with dedicated CPU, RAM, storage and IP resources, while Domains.co.za’s team manages the OS, security hardening, updates, backups and monitoring. This is clearly aimed at agencies, developers, and growing businesses that have outgrown shared hosting but do not want to maintain a server.

Beyond core hosting, the portfolio includes a drag-and-drop Site Builder (with templates, SEO and security tools, payment gateway integrations and e-commerce options), a simple "Link in Bio" one-page site product, SSL certificates (Domain Validation and Organisation Validation) and antivirus solutions. For partners and larger resellers, they offer a white-label domain reseller platform, web hosting reseller packages on SSD/NVMe servers, and registrar/EPP integration services that allow ISPs and other providers to build their own branded offerings on top of Domains.co.za’s infrastructure.

Overall, Domains.co.za comes across as a vertically integrated registrar-plus-hosting provider with a strong local footprint in Johannesburg, a modern NVMe/EPYC platform, and a product range that scales from single-site bloggers to agencies and resellers.