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NITDA reviews domain names policy guidelines to boost investors’ confidence
3 May  Nigeria
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has reviewed the GOV.NG and MIL.NG policy, which guides the administration...
NiRA to auction process some premium domains
22 Feb  Communications
Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), in conjunction with her Accredited Registrars, will be conducting an auction of some premium domain names. This process will be carried out online and in a transparent manner. This round of Auction is coming, after the Initial auction that was conducted in 2018. The NiRA auction process have been initiated…
.ng domain adds 1,300 registration in December 2018
11 Jan  Communications
The registration of Nigerian domain name, .ng country code top-level domain, added paltry 1,300 new registrations over December 2018.
The Guardian gets NiMES award after NiRA, NiOMA honours
31 Oct 2018  Nigeria
It is a season of honour for The Guardian as the newspaper yesterday won the Best Use of Mobile Technology for Media (Print) award.About three months ago, the newspaper got the industry recognition at the yearly Nigeria Internet Registration Association...
Nigeria’s top level domain makes lazy progress
27 Jul 2018  Communications
.NG, Nigeria’s Country Code Top Level Domain Name, ccTLD, which is the country’s identity on the super-high is making little progress, 13 years after Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) took over its management, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek has learnt. A report on the number of registrations on dot ng on yearly basis made available to Nigeria CommunicationsWeek…
Nigeria Internet registrar targets 1m .ng domain registrations by 2023
11 Jul 2018  Technology
Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) is targeting the registration of about one million .ng domains names in another five years.
Again, The Guardian shines at NiRA Awards, bags industry recognitions
9 Jul 2018  Technology
The consistency of your darling newspaper, The Guardian in promoting robust journalism both online and offline was duly recognised at the weekend in Lagos, when it bagged two awards at the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) .ng media awards.
Banks shun Nigeria Cyber identity, use foreign domains
29 Jun 2018  Communications
Money deposit banks are still reluctant to register their domains on .ng, Nigeria’s Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), preferring instead foreign domains...
Nigeria’s active domain name hits 111,146
16 May 2018  Technology
The addition of 7,219 new domain names to the .ng registered in the month of April, has taken Nigeria’s active domain number to 111, 146. According to the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), the growth of the .ng domain names is encouraging. A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control…
Much Ado about Call Masking and Call Refilling – Sunday Folayan and “Odaran” intervention
18 Feb 2018  Business News
Sunday Folayan’s treatise titled “Much Ado about Call Masking and Call Refilling – NCC’s “Ogboju” And Non-Neutrality” initially made an interesting read until one gets...
NiRA achieved 24,788 domain names in 2017
19 Jan 2018  Communications
The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA) said that 24,788 domain names were registered in the country’s code domain name as at 2017 bringing the total to 101,695, up from 76,907 names recorded in 2016.
Nigeria ends 2017 with 101,695 domain names
12 Jan 2018  Technology
The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA) said on Friday that 101,695 domain names existed in the country’s domain registry as at 2017, up from 76,907 names recorded in 2016. The President of NIRA, Mr Sunday Folayan, made this known in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Friday.…