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After a long and difficult journey NIRA is set to deliver on a key component of its mandate. Come January 1, 2009 NIRA would commence automated and commercial service. Nigerians all over the world and others interested in the .ng open domain would be able to register .ng domains with instant results. Registrations would be possible through any of the NIRA accredited Registrars, which currently are twenty nine in number, with more to be accredited as requests come. The registrars with online payment systems offer instant domain registrations with domains visible 1 hour later. Apart from the patriotic appeal every Nigerian has every reason to go for a .ng domain. .ng domains would be one of the cheapest cctlds or gtlds in pricing. Also as a virgin domain many brand names are all available for proper name registration. All these makes the .ng domain a key domain of choice. |
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After a pains taking eveluation process by the Registrar Accreditation committee, the Executive Board has approved the appointment of the first and only set of Pioneer Registrars for the .ng Registry. The Registrar Accreditation committee headed by the NIRA VP Mrs Mary Uduma had received thirty five completed applications for the Pioneer Accreditation process. While all thirty five were given provisonal accreditation ater due assessment only twenty nine could meet all the set criteria for final accreditation. Of these three had primary office locations outside Nigeria, pricelsy, Senegal, UK and the US. The other had office scattered all over Nigeria. Only one of the accredited registrars is an ICANN Accredited Registrar infact Kheweul is one of the ONLY two ICANN accredited registrars in Africa. For category breakdown there were Four Platinum, One Gold, Seven Silver and Seventeen Standard registrars accredited. |
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In fufilment of its mandate to manage the .ng registry NIRA has established a world class infrastructure to manage the registry. Collaborating with nominwt, APNIC and other global registries NIRA designed and implemented a Name servervice and Registry system hosted locally with global instances.For the name server component, NIRA has put in place a global network of Anycast Name servers working with partners who have also served countries like the United Kingdom (UK), Germany, and Canada to name a few. One of the Anycast providers already supports gTLDs and ccTLDs with over 30 million domains. |
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NIGERIA INTERNET REGISTRATION ASSOCIATION, otherwise known as NIRA, charged with the management of Nigeria’s country code Top Level Domain .ng, is poised to formally accredit the First ever set of NIRA Registrars, who would be known as NIRA Accredited Registrars. These set of registrars are unique as they would be the Pioneer Registrars for NIRA. Already the Executive Board has approved a lot of incentives for these Pioneer Registrars. These include the waiver of Accreditation Fees, FREE Training and Certification Support, Very low domain fees, Massive publicity among others. |
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Coming on the heels of plans for full commercial operations NIRA President inaugurated its Auction committee on Wednesday December 3, 2008. The committee is charged with the responsibility of fashioning out auction guidelines and procedures for the .ng domain. This is both for special registrations on the second level like mybank.ng, and also premium domains on the third level, like doctors.com.ng, shop.com.ng, among others. The committee has as members Mrs Mary Uduma the Vice President NIRA and Director Licensing NCC, who would chair, others are Shina Badru Publisher Technology Times and Deputy Chair, Bimbo Olayinka NIRA treasurer & MD Resort saving & Loans PLC and Yetunde Johnson NIRA director & Head IT Aluko, Oyebode & Co. The committee also includes three of the newly accredited registrars, Omoniyi Ewete of Websoft, Eugene Ohu of Netorb and Destiny Amana of Iceccol. The Registrar Laison officer of NIRA Emmanuel Amadi would serve as secretary to the committee.
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Based on the avalanche of travails being meted out to Internet users by Domain speculators, Cyber squatters and other negative Internet exploits, the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) has adopted strategies to protect brand names on the country code Top Level Domain (TLD), dot ng. To butress this was the successful resolution of domain name controversy concerning telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria Communications Limited and a purported staff of GS Telecoms.It would be recalled that mtn.com.ng was first registered in 2004 under GS Telecoms by a staff of the company then.
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The Board of NIRA is set to position .ng as the premium domain in Africa and ultimately one of the top world domains. This is reflected with the extraordinary and innovative provision in the newly released policies and procedures to guide the .ng registry. The Board having considered all inputs recieved has approved NIRA's first set of Policies and Procedures. One key issue is that every stakeholder input and contribution was carefully examined and considered in arriving at the final decisions. This reflects the key principle of the current baord to carry all stakeholders along and be a listening one. The NIRA board is therefore very appreicative of all those who sent in their comments and contributions to the policy review, for the corporate stakeholders we specially recognise the inputs of NITDA, NCC, CPN, NCS, ATCON, NIG, ISPAN. In all there are eleven policies that govern registry operations, glossoray for al terms used, one policy on Directors code and the list of reserved domains |
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