The Nigeria internet Registration Association (NiRA), has raised concern over the low figures recorded in domain name registration in Africa, including Nigeria.

NiRA made the observation during the 2019 Dot NG Media College, organised in Lagos.



Addressing media practitioners during his presentation, titled: ‘Understanding the Domain Name System (DNS) Industry and Local Hosting,” the President of NiRA, Mr. Muhammed Rudman, expressed dissatisfaction over domain name registration in Nigeria and across African countries.

He stressed the need for more engagement with Nigerians and Africans in the areas of generic Top Level Domain Name (gTLD) and country code Top Level Domain Name (ccTLD) that represent a country’s identity in cyberspace.

Nigeria’s domain name in cyberspace is .ng, South Africa is .za, United States is .com, and United Kingdom is .uk

Most Nigerians and Nigerian organisations still use foreign domain names from United States and United Kingdom, thus depopulating the .ng domain name, which is Nigeria’s identity in cyberspace, and populating foreign domain names, he said.

Disturbed by the development, Rudman said there was need for enlightenment of Nigerians on the need to populate Nigeria’s domain name registration.

According to him, the global statistics of ccTLDs showed that as at April 2018, Africa had 3.3 million ccTLDs, America had 13.7 million ccTLDs, Asia had 37.6 million ccTLDs and Europe had 72.2 million ccTLDs.

According to the statistics, in 1994, global domain name registration was 30,000, but as at 2019, the figure had risen to over 351 million, an indication that the growth domain name registration is on the increase, yet in Nigeria and Africa, the growth is abysmally low.

Nigeria’s total domain name registration was put at 140,709 as at June 2019.
Rudman who expressed worries over the dominance of foreign domain names in Nigeria and Africa, and the hosting of such domain names and data outside of Africa and Nigeria, said African countries would continue to lose revenue streams from the hosting rights of domain names outside of Africa and Nigeria.

He described internet as a network of networks, joining many government, university and private computers together and providing an infrastructure for the use of email, bulletin boards, file archives, hypertext documents, databases and other computational resources.
“There are over 4.4 billion internet users worldwide out of the 7.7 billion people worldwide. We have about 351 million registered domain names globally as at June 2019, and these figures show growth of both internet users and domain names registration globally, which is a wake-up for Nigeria,” Rudman said.

Speaking on the benefits of domain name registration, the Vice President of NiRA, Mr. Toba Obaniyi, said “a domain name is a unique name on the internet that points visitors to the hosting account that serves them content.”

According to him, people can have a wider range of domains to select from when registering with the .ng extension; people can also get creative with their domains, such as drivi.ng, sleepi.ng, danci.ng, ceili.ng, just like what Google did with googli.ng and Microsoft did with bi.ng; and the registry is local, making resolution of issues easier and faster.

The Group Executive Editor, DigitalSENSE Africa Media Group, Mr. Remmy Nweke, highlighted some fundamentals of changing the DNS industry through a well-set out and thought-out structure of media engagement via professionals; conducting training sessions for media practitioners in the country, especially for those on the line of reporting/covering the DNS industry in Nigeria. He equally advised NiRA to institute a reward for excellence in DNS coverage in the country within the media.

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Fvck .ng,
.com passengers de pay with PayPal or paystack but you are all these .ng passengers na pay on delivery them sabi, some go even carry you product run sef

Rude Bokoharam likes Ruga Settlements and wants to register them. Clever Tanko.

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If to say them they register yahoo too, u for no complain, make yahoo business legit and u will see registration

Hmmmm.... person no like .ng nah.... abi na by force ?

Issues

In fact the name Nigeria has made any word starting with the letter "N" insanely addressed

Anyone in kano, I need a job please...thanks

Is .ng not more expensive that .com?

Nigerians don't value what they have

Why won't there be low patronage when it's ridiculously expensive. Why buy a .NG for 15k when you can get a .COM or even .COM.NG.

.ng is expensive abeg, some hosting companies even offer free

".com.ng" when you pay for a hosting plan, but if u want .ng u

will pay around 12k just for domain alone.

Again .ng makes ur site look like it is confined to Nigerian

viewership only

Who .ng help, it doesn't work most time, all you guys know is how to share our national cake in National Assembly.
Make una go use Boko. Con it ll pay better

.ng is overrated in time of price. Just bring the price down just like the most popular .com and see more patronage but still our .ng identity is something to appreciate

Something like Nairaland.ng no go make sense naa

Stuffs like these is why each country has a minister of information to create awareness on issues like this ........our own past minister of information was only interested in telling lies, creating tension internationaly and misinformig the public...

Worries all over Africa. How do we localise economic prosperity when we gravitate towards everything foreign? Most Nigerians despise anything Nigerian. You can actually blame them little cos most local products are not worth the pain but still how do we improve if we desert everything indigenous apart from corruption?
Nigeria spins money but the two biggest chunks land in the pockets of our politicians and the remaining, thru our foreign-philic cravings, lands in the land of more progressive thinking foreign countries not only the West, the Asian Tigers have joined also.
Before you say only God can save us. Remember our collective destiny as a nation is our hands and a product of our thoughts individually and collectively.

The price of ".ng" domains are on the high side compared to the foreign ones. I used to own one for about 6 years, had to drop it because what it was intended for didn't work out as much and continuing to pay around 12k each year wasn't worth it anymore.

The ".com.ng" domains are on the cheaper side though and I own about 6 of them.

Nigeria is a fvcked up country. Our identity in the cyberspace is quite bad and as such foreign investors will be very cautious when dealing with us. Which is why Nigerians are running away from the .ng domains.

And apart from the .com.ng, it is also pretty expensive. Imagine getting a domain name for close to #10,000. And you still have to host it.

Won't try dot ng not especially when trying to build a global brand



Thank you

Hmmmm

Simple marketing strategy will be to make .ng far cheaper than .com.
Stop weeping, do the right thing, bro

nor be only .ng, na .nigeria............

Mac2016:
Worries all over Africa. How do we localise economic prosperity when we gravitate towards everything foreign!

By reducing the ridiculous cost of products made in Nigeria. The vice president of NIRA successfully dodged mentioning the price and started pretending like he had no clue why any Nigerian would be interested in foreign domains.

introvertme:


By reducing the ridiculous cost of products made in Nigeria. The vice president of NIRA successfully dodged mentioning the price and started pretending like he had no clue why any Nigerian would be interested in foreign domains.

You're very right! I don't know much about cyberspace tho. But most times you can tell the difference when you launch on to a .ng and some other sites. I think many things need to be improved upon about our domain space. Cyber security and others at least to be close to par with global standards.

How can anyone be proud of Nigeria with the inhumane treatment and injustice and injury we receive everyday from our leaders?

Dubious fellows. The reason why .ng suffers low patronage is because of the prohibitive price.

They are dishonest and not ready for business. When they are ready, they would bring down the price.

They are running domain names like fuel business. Waiting for government subsidy.

We are Nigerians.

I'm very proud of my identity.

Everything about Nigeria is beautiful. The national flag, the coat of arms, country landscape and the people.

We live a communal life. Good people. Great nation. Bad leadership.

.ng is my identity in the international cyberspace.

Ok

Hmm.

Afam4eva:
Why won't there be low patronage when it's ridiculously expensive. Why buy a .NG for 15k when you can get a .COM or even .COM.NG.

OkoYibo:
Dubious fellows. The reason why .ng suffers low patronage is because of the prohibitive price.

They are dishonest and not ready for business. When they are ready, they would bring down the price.

They are running domain names like fuel business. Waiting for government subsidy.

bros, you dont understand the dynamics thus your legit complains.

The .ng was bought at a very high price in dollars just like any other cctld domains. coupled with operational and maintenance cost.
So you could guess where the " high pricing " comes from.
gtlds were bought by companies having the resources e.g .google was bought over by... you guess right.

The more the domain registrations, the less the price (after periodic reviews).

if .ng does not suit you then go for .com.ng or .names.ng, it is cheaper there i.e 2K or thereabout.
That is what is obtainable in other countries e.g .co.uk, .co.za etc,
.co.za is 5k compared to 2k .com.ng. yet they are much higher registration than us
Want to go for .uk or .za you will pay premium.

Support .ng so that we could come to that point.

NB I am not a .ng staff or director but a registree so i understand this

cheers

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