All Nigerian Sites With .NG Domains Were Down

All Nigerian Sites With Url .ng Domain Are Generally Down

Hey people I need to inform you that all the .ng domain site are down. The Company hosting the .ng domain are having problem with their server. So, all Nigerian site URL that ends with .ng are generally down

<<UPDATE: the .NG domains are back up!

yeah, i noticed it too. for a minute there, i thought, google was down for the first time(aint too sure). hope dey come back up soon cos i cant even access google.com

Nigeria we hail "or is it HELL"  thee

seun what do u mean by our incompetence??

dnt tell me you dnt knw how unpredictable these things can be

this is the first time richaado will be posting something reasonable. He is always spammin the forum with legwork.com.ng.
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I noticed it too. WELCOME TO NIGERIA. _{[/sub]where everything is possible[sub]}

Our biggest weakness is our lack of understanding of two words : infrastructure and maintenance.  Today, a solid Internet infrastructure is as important as physical infrastructure like roads.   Sadly, we fall short in both.  Is it any wonder that most nigerian and african sites end in .com or .net?

Na true ooooooo. This case is not likely to be due to failures in Nigerian infrastructure. When hackers launch massive attacks on servers in US and Europe all of them crashed and had close down for a long time.

Congratulations, Nigeria.  The .NG domains are back!  (It may take a while for our local ISPs to respond to that)

Yes, I know that servers can be unpredictable.  Our real incompetence is our decision to host the domains locally knowing fully well that our infrastructure is not yet what it should be.  What happens next time there is no diesel because of a strike?  What happens when the administrator falls ill?  Is there a backup server?  Is there a backup ISP in case the main ISP goes down, which is a regular occurence as we already know.  Most important question: why bother our little heads with all these matters when we can just host the damn thing abroad for peanuts?

Are the NIRA people incompetent. No, they are not. They are as competent as the rest of us (you and me). 

well said but dnt you thk we need to learn to stand alone, like stand alone applications and all,

all this guys didnt get der in one day, they made mistakes and now we only see the good part, anyways,  i feel what you sed,

but my point is that we should try to do it ourselves, 

some of the site are still down, like www.jamb.org.ng, www.ncc.gov.ng etc but others are up like google.com.ng and waeconline.org.ng

Folks,

I don't think .ng is hosted in Nigeria. The last I checked, it was being done via an NGO initiative by Randy Bush somewhere in the US. I think the ccTLD is hosted somewhere in ZA and with backup in other locations.

For a change, let us try to focus on the positive side of our country rather than castigate the .ng host. Ironically most of you guys do not even know to how network client computers let alone configure a server. In IT, whatever goes down comes up stronger and better.

well Niyiyie, I am not cracking any jokes. I meant every word. I also do not mean they should not get there acts right.

Google.com.ng like all other google website is likely to be hosted on google servers in the US.