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Re: Why Com.ng And Not Co.ng by Chigold101(m): 8:34am On Oct 07, 2016

9PBLIVE:
UK's own is .co.uk

South Africa's .co.za

So why is Nigeria's own .com.ng

the first thing you should have done is find out what .com means.
If you know the meaning of the “com“ you will come to appreciate that NIGERIA is using to correct version not the UK OR SA.

We are Nigeria, we are bound to stand and not mix up...

I love .com.ng PERIOD.

Re: Why Com.ng And Not Co.ng by eROCK247(m): 8:46am On Oct 07, 2016

Northmall:
.ng should be stopped? Really? Besides being expensive I don't see any other reasons why .ng should be stopped. Even UK has .uk selling on Godaddy. SA has co.za and .za too. In domaining, it is widely believed that the shorter a name or extension is, the better. But then, I'd like to understand your point because I've noticed Google prefer to use Google.com.ng instead of Google.ng which they also own. , Konga.com.ng, , Cheapflights.com.ng - all these big websites prefer to use the com.ng extension instead of the .ng which is shorter.
.com means Commercial, well it's probably the reason why .com.ng is preferred among commercial websites. For me, I really like the .ng extension and like I stated earlier, the only downside is that it's price is on the high side. If Nira should drop the price, I'm pretty sure millions of the available names for .ng will be snapped up within few years. A lot of Nigerian offline businesses are beginning to claim their spot online.

what's the difference between 'com' and 'co'?

Re: Why Com.ng And Not Co.ng by talk2hb1(m): 8:59am On Oct 07, 2016

eROCK247:
what's the difference between 'com' and 'co'?

.com means Commercial entity, .net for network organization, .edu for educational institute, etc.

Re: Why Com.ng And Not Co.ng by Hiqhscore(m): 9:46am On Oct 07, 2016

Its very dissapointing to see everything written didnt seem to ans the question huh

The only thing this our webmasters knows best is to argue about web host sad

Back to ur question
Where this problem comes from is the way we grew to understand web extentions
.com actually means the website is a commercial entity
.co means the website is a company entity.
.com.ng means its a nigeria commercial entity.
.co.location signifies a company in a particular location, and most of this extention users host the website themselves

Why i think .co.ng is not a common extention is because in nigeria all our companies here do serve a commercial purpose

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Re: Why Com.ng And Not Co.ng by AJohnnasa(m): 10:16am On Oct 07, 2016

Hiqhscore:
Its very dissapointing to see everything written didnt seem to ans the question

The only thing this our webmasters knows best is to argue about web host

Back to ur question
Where this problem comes from is the way we grew to understand web extentions
.com actually means the website is a commercial entity
.co means the website is a company entity.
.com.ng means its a nigeria commercial entity.
.co.location signifies a company in a particular location, and most of this extention users host the website themselves

Why i think .co.ng is not a common extention is because in nigeria all our companies here do serve a commercial purpose

Now, we have come to the end of this thread/topic; everybody, go home!

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Re: Why Com.ng And Not Co.ng by Hiqhscore(m): 10:57am On Oct 07, 2016

AJohnnasa:
Now, we have come to the end of this thread/topic; everybody, go home!

Comman carry me na, me dat ah stee wantu play ball sad

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Re: Why Com.ng And Not Co.ng by BrainnewsNg(f): 11:10am On Oct 07, 2016

Northmall:
.ng should be stopped? Really? Besides being expensive I don't see any other reasons why .ng should be stopped. Even UK has .uk selling on Godaddy. SA has co.za and .za too. In domaining, it is widely believed that the shorter a name or extension is, the better. But then, I'd like to understand your point because I've noticed Google prefer to use Google.com.ng instead of Google.ng which they also own. , Konga.com.ng, , Cheapflights.com.ng - all these big websites prefer to use the com.ng extension instead of the .ng which is shorter.
.com means Commercial, well it's probably the reason why .com.ng is preferred among commercial websites. For me, I really like the .ng extension and like I stated earlier, the only downside is that it's price is on the high side. If Nira should drop the price, I'm pretty sure millions of the available names for .ng will be snapped up within few years. A lot of Nigerian offline businesses are beginning to claim their spot online.

Thanks for this

Re: Why Com.ng And Not Co.ng by eROCK247(m): 11:24am On Oct 07, 2016

talk2hb1:
.com means Commercial entity, .net for network organization, .edu for educational institute, etc.

Yeah I knw those meanings. Hw abt .co? What differentiates it from .com?

Re: Why Com.ng And Not Co.ng by Olaiya26: 11:27am On Oct 07, 2016

excanny:
Because we are not them. They should change theirs to .com.uk and .com.za. Australia uses .com.au tho.

OP, stop this inferiority complex.

The only second nigerian level domain that should be stopped is .ng. It doesn't describe the entity in anyway.

Re: Why Com.ng And Not Co.ng by Panshow(m): 11:48am On Oct 07, 2016

excanny:
Because we are not them. They should change theirs to .com.uk and .com.za. Australia uses .com.au tho.

OP, stop this inferiority complex.

The only second nigerian level domain that should be stopped is .ng. It doesn't describe the entity in anyway.

God bless you Bro. What a perfect answer.

Re: Why Com.ng And Not Co.ng by talk2hb1(m): 12:12pm On Oct 07, 2016

eROCK247:
Yeah I knw those meanings. Hw abt .co? What differentiates it from .com?

.co has no basis as far as I am concerned, let those using .co come explain that wink

Re: Why Com.ng And Not Co.ng by Nobody: 1:54pm On Oct 07, 2016

na wa o how .com.ng/.co.ng/.ng take affect us na.noh be sofa website open and we do our thing sharperly.

Anyhow,make Nairaland change to www.nairaland.co.ng

Re: Why Com.ng And Not Co.ng by Nobody: 5:15pm On Oct 07, 2016

eROCK247:
what's the difference between 'com' and 'co'?

.com is Commercial, .co is Company.
.co is also an extension that represents Columbia

Re: Why Com.ng And Not Co.ng by eROCK247(m): 6:15pm On Oct 07, 2016

Northmall:
.com is Commercial, .co is Company.
.co is also an extension that represents Columbia

Thanks bro

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