Zamnet.zm SHARED WEB HOSTING (ECONOMY [...], ZMK 230.00/mo.

SHARED WEB HOSTING (ECONOMY WEB) has been discontinued (added August 2, 2019)

🔌 Hosted domains :	unlimited
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPal
🔨 Control Panel :	CPanel
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeLive Chat
🌏 Server Locations :	Zambia
⚑ Targeting :	ZM

Original plan URL was http://www.zamnet.zm/index.php/2013-07-27-11-54-04/hosting-services

📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

ZAMNET Communication Systems Ltd was established in 1994 by the University of Zambia and became Zambia’s first commercial Internet service provider. It was also among the earliest ISPs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Rather than being founded by a conventional private entrepreneur, ZAMNET was created as a university-owned company. Early governance was closely associated with former UNZA Vice-Chancellor Andrew Siwela and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Jorry Mwenechanya.

The company emerged from an earlier electronic-mail network operated by the University of Zambia between 1991 and 1994. ZAMNET received substantial World Bank seed funding, covering approximately 80% of the original project. Zambia obtained full Internet connectivity in November 1994, becoming the fifth African country and the second country in Sub-Saharan Africa, after South Africa, to achieve full Internet access.

ZAMNET remained fully owned by UNZA and developed into a national Internet and communications provider. Its services included fixed wireless and fibre broadband, shared web hosting, managed dedicated hosting, VPS, enterprise email, domain registration, DNS hosting, SSL certificates, server colocation, backup and storage, web development, software development, VPN and network services, cybersecurity products and technical training.

The company also played an important role in the history of Zambia’s country-code domain. ZAMNET originally managed the .zm registry, but technical registry operations were transferred to ZICTA in March 2013. The formal redelegation was completed in 2014, after which ZAMNET continued to operate as a .zm registrar rather than the national registry manager.

Its network extended well beyond Lusaka. The older hosting profile listed five full Points of Presence in Lusaka, Kitwe, Livingstone, Ndola and Solwezi, together with virtual PoPs in Kalomo, Mazabuka, Choma, Lumwana, Luanshya, Chingola, Chipata, Kalulushi and Chililabombwe. The network footprint changed over time, with later information also including Kafue and Kazungula.

ZAMNET’s conventional hosting catalogue eventually became inactive and its older hosting plans were no longer maintained as dependable commercial offers. There was no confirmed legal closure or acquisition of the company. The clearest operational transition occurred on 6 July 2026, when ZAMNET introduced a replacement client portal following a serious server incident. Information from the previous billing and account platform could not be fully recovered, forcing customers to create new accounts.

Domain services remained active at registry level and could be linked to the replacement customer profiles. Hosting services were in a less certain position because the technical team was still restoring and verifying them. ZAMNET therefore continued to exist, but its legacy hosting operation was effectively inactive and could not be treated as a normal, fully restored hosting platform.

The replacement registry portal concentrated on domain registration, domain transfers, DNS hosting and email hosting. It supported both Zambian kwacha and US dollars. The main corporate content was in English, while the registry software included English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish and several other interface languages.