Domain names in Nigeria, now totalled 93,317 in July according to the statistics provided by Nigeria Internet Registration in Nigeria, NiRA confirmed this recently. The total number of domain names registered in Nigeria domain registration (that is .ng) domains were 90,969 during June and 89,184 in May.

There was an increase in domain count month-on-month. From May to June there was an increase of 1,785 while from June to July there was an addition of 2,348 domains. On average there were 2,066.5 domains that uses .ng domain count month-on-month from May to July. If this trend continues, it is likely that the number of domains count in Nigeria registry may reach 95,000 approximately and may over 100,000 domains at the end of 2017.


The President of the Executive board of NiRA stated something similar in a news letter that accompany the above report. He stated:

It is heart-warming that the number of domains in the registry continues to grow in excess of 2,000 domains monthly. This is due to the hard work of the Registrars and the Resellers, in making sure that .ng continues to be the domain of choice for all Nigerians. Thank you for your hard work in this regard.
At the current rate, the number of active .ng domains will cross the 100,000 mark between October and November 2017. It is a milestone that we will celebrate, and is worthy of being celebrated.
We need to get many more people on board, but some Nigerians still live in denial. They claim that the Nigerian string is too long, and sometimes expensive. I went past the delivery truck of a courier company, which for this message, I will call “Distro”, with the domain name distro-ng.com. If the same company had registered distro.com.ng, it is the same length as distro-ng.com and costs much lower.

But that is not all. As you can see from the table below.


Source: NiRA

Registration for domain names where 4,122 in May, 3,947 in June and 4,363 in July. The renewals were 2,032 in May, 1,884 in June and 2,143 in July. Domain transfers stood at 64 for May, 58 for June and 50 for July.

While domain names transfer dropped month-on-month, domain registration and renewal fluctuates on the same periods under considerations. If domain transfers continues to drop, it will have very little effects on achieving the 100,000 domains names at October and November as stated by the president. As long as domain name registrations and renewal continue to increase.

Moreover, domain name registries and resellers are encourage to seek out for companies and other business to transfer their websites to Nigeria domain registry. Probably, promotional coupon codes can be made available from time-to-time so that this NiRA can achieve this goal on a platter.

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