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Historic Moment for Internet

Stewardship of IANA Functions Transitions to Global Internet Community as Contract with U.S. Government Ends The contract between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the United States Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), to perform … Read More

Domain Names Registration Statistics for July, August and September 2016

Domain Name Registrations and Renewals at the Registry have steadily increased on month per month basis and year per year basis. The increase can of course be attributed to the hard work of the NiRA Accredited Registrars. The domain names … Read More

THE REGISTRATION OF DOMAIN NAMES AND HOSTING OF WEBSITES

The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), the .ng Internet Domain Names Registry, operates the 3-R (Registry/Registrar/Registrant) model. This means that registration of .ng domain names for Registrants is by the NiRA Accredited Registrars and not by NiRA, the Registry.  NiRA … Read More