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!

Amazingly, this includes Google Nigeria: www.google.com.ng. Our incompetence is harming google right now!

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

darkey, use www.google.us

however, i can access Google Nigeria from my side. it just opened before this post was modified.

Nigeria we hail "or is it HELL"  thee

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

3d_hunter:

Nigeria we hail "or is it HELL" thee

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]}

Sorry.Bt can smbdy tell me hw to post a topic.I dont knw.Help.Pls

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?

The reason I couldn't log unto Nipex portal this morning. tanx Ricaado

breeolan:

seun what do u mean by our incompetence??

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

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.

Google Nigeria is up and running

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

don't tell me you dnt knw how unpredictable these things can be

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).

they are too expensive though

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, 

Nope folks. .ng sites are still down as at posting time

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

O boy , even www.cac.gov.ng is still down (Corporate Affair Commision's Website)

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.

My check revealed that the .ng domain servers are spread across the globe.

#1 South Africa
#2 California, United States
#3 Kapaau, Hawaii, US
#4 Sweden

I was so pissed on the day the entire .ng was down, I blogged about it: http://www.davidajao.com/blog/2007/06/27/nigerian-cctld-something-wrong/

We need to get our acts right!

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.

preoil:

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.

You are funny. You won't say this if you had a .ng and your money-making site was down for about 24 hours.

If something is wrong, we should all condemn it and see to it that things get better. I want the best for my country. I am not castigating.

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

yeah i bet google.com.ng will never go down. they probably have their own nameservers 4 it. i trust them to not wanna rely on anyone else

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

All Google websites are hosted in the USA irrespective of the country-code domain.
Now, if the root servers for .ng is down, there is little Google can do in that respect since as you can see, google is under .com.ng (do you understand?)

Most of the .ng domains are hosted outside Nigeria. Just that if something is wrong with the .ng servers, there is very little the domain owners can do apart from put pressure on the NG Registry.

How come www.google.com.ng is functional now and all others that i know are still down?

ikdme: How come www.google.com.ng is functional now and all others that i know are still down?

This is a 2007 post. A six year post. The .com.ng sites are currently ok.

Make una try dey look date before dragging a post up . I am wondering how far you had to dig to get to this post.

^^ Nairalanders be making me laugh

soloqy:

This is a 2007 post. A six year post. The .com.ng sites are currently ok.

Make una try dey look date before dragging a post up . I am wondering how far you had to dig to get to this post.

I dey laugh in php!
Since 2007 ***surprise***Many waters have passed under the bridge. I wonder wherE all those members are now.