Top Registrars and Webhosting Companies in Algeria

Out of Algeria's 34 million people, just over 4.5 million have access to internet according InternetWorldstats.com . The control of the internet is centralized and the Maghreb nation has by all means survived the Arab Spring, with only one ISP. Algeria however has a vibrant and competitive Domain/Webhosting market  with some 15 webhosting companies controlling a substantial stake of the market led by hostbled.com

 To apply for a .dz domain name, one must be an organization with a permanent presence in Algeria, and choose a name of three or more letters. Currently, NIC.DZ charges 1000 Algerian dinars a year (about $14). The two letter country code DZ is derived from Dzayer, the local name for Algeria.

Some 3851 domains have been registered in the .dz namespace. NIC.dz keeps realtime stats on domain registration in Algeria.  The Algerian ccTLD namespace is fairly advanced in terms of the management, administration, reporting and relationship with registrars. The Top Registrars in the .dz namespace include the following:

Registrar	Number of Domaines
Total	3851
1.Wissal	3305 domains
2.KDConcept	186 domains
3.Djaweb	127 domains
4.Cetic	86 domains
5.Slc	39 domains
6.Caci	27 domains
7.AnwarNet	25 domains
8.Satlinker	22 domains
9.Webidees	20 domains
10.Open Xnet	5 domains
11.ATLAS ACCESS	5 domains
12.AYRADE	2 domains
13.ICOSNET	1 domain
14.epay	1 domain

 
generic Top Level Domain Names
Directi's WebHosting.info has tracked the number of the generic Top level Domains that are hosted on servers inside Algeria. Here are some of Algeria's Top Web hosting companies:

Rank	Hosting Company	Market Share	Total Domains
1	HOSTBLED.COM	13.5257 %	511
2	GS-INTERNET.NET	12.7581 %	482
3	AYRADE.COM	7.676 %	290
4	GRAFICONET.NET	7.5437 %	285
5	LOCALHOSTDZ.INFO	7.4643 %	282
5	CIRTAHOSTING.COM	4.5527 %	172
6	ALOLINE.COM	3.7057 %	140
7	BMGII.NET	3.3351 %	126
8	ALGERIANHOST.COM	3.3351 %	126
9	MACNETHOST.COM	2.9645 %	112
10	F-KAR.NET	2.7792 %	105
11	MEGAWEBALGERIE.COM	2.3293 %	88
12	KDHOSTING.NET	2.1175 %	80
13	DZSOL.COM	1.747 %	66
14	BADRHOST.COM	1.7205 %	65
15	DIRSITEWEB.COM	1.4029 %	53