Hello,

I read about .ng domain name in one of the Nigeria daily news paper, that .ng domain name will be available from 1st of April. I don't know if the news is true I have check the website (nira.org.ng) the news paper ask us to check for details information but no lucky.

I don't know if anyone read about this domain name or I'm just dreaming of it.

Dear Lovely,

.ng domains have been available for a bit now and there are several companies that offer registration. You can register it for free from NIRA if you meet certain technical criteria - essentially have nameservers in 2 physically different locations. You will also need to be a Nigerian Registered & Based company.

If you have difficulty meeting these technical specs, we can register it for you for N1000. We will then point it to your hosting provider.

You should also check the forum as there are quite a few offers to register .com.ng (from free to , )

Hope this helps.

Regards

He did not mention the .com.ng domains. He’s actually saying .ng, which means Nigerians will soon be able to register www.yourname.ng.

Na wao, after all this years we are struggling with .ng registration.

He doesn't have to mention .com.ng to imply .ng

Could be that the said publication means NIRA is now ready to go public.

Thanks niyyie.

I have learnt not to get into issues on this board for several reasons, but will always give advice where necessary - maybe I am showing my age!

The .ng domain on its own really does not help anybody. The idea is to be able to tell where organizations fit in by the extension on the domain. Hence .gov.ng = government, .edu.ng = education or degree granting bodies. This is the same with the UK/US which uses the extension to distinguish between organization. This means you can have a company called Kings and a University called Kings and will be able to register domains for both e.g. kings.com.ng and kings.edu.ng. You could also have extensions like sch for school which was taken off the NIRA list - then you could have kings.sch.ng.

Niyyie thanks once again. I have always found your comments on this forum well thought through - you are probably showing your age too!

syskay:

He did not mention the .com.ng domains. He’s actually saying .ng, which means Nigerians will soon be able to register www.yourname.ng.

Thanks, I'm talking about .ng domain name (yourname.ng) and not .com.ng where can I buy the domain name online.
Regards.

Well, I doubt if NIRA (the .ng domains authority) will ever allow yourname.ng registrations due to the factors netzymes stated above.

yo netzymes , i need a .ng name , hw can i reach u?

the gu said .ng domain only not .com.ng thing

In the site I regitsered the Domain name http://www.tucktail.com/

Nice sharing. thanks,

why do guyz just leave what is asked aside and answers whateva is in their heads? just to prove a point, "i must talk" "i must contribute"

someone's talkin about .ng domains and the good samaritan started advicing on .com.ng.

i think these means the answerer (grama) does not even know the difference?

recent actions of Nigerian registry is probably an answer for this topic. Ive heard some rumors and been also searching for .ng domains (I dont have my company registered in Nigeria), and look what I found on this page:
http://web-solutions.eu/news/ng-top-level-domains-are-now-available-for-registration-nigeria.htm

so its pretty nice info - .ng is going to be available and without any restrictions

im goi.ng to register a lot of brand new domain names

Check out the full info on www.web4africa.com...

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Either ways, .ng is not yet live till date. But we're hoping to have it selling this month and you can order your .ng domain on GigaLayer as well.

http://www.gigalayer.com as soon as its live.

gigalayer is a spammer.... Always spamming important posts there.

This makes you a bad host.

rufaai: [size=13pt]This is an old post, why bring it back to top!!! [/size]

Either ways, .ng is not yet live till date. But we're hoping to have it selling this month and you can order your .ng domain on GigaLayer as well.

http://www.gigalayer.com as soon as its live.

The .ng Registrar actually opens this 2nd level domains for sale today 16th April, 2013. So if you are interested, some registrars already started selling today! web4africa.com is!

Download a the list of available .ng domain names here... http://www.web4africa.net/clients/dl.php?type=d&id=6 [PDF]

and the list of forbidden domain names is here: http://www.web4africa.net/clients/knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&id=33

This is 2013.

It is now possible to register .ng e.g yoursite.ng (not yoursite.com,ng)

Check where to buy.ng domain name here.