NIRA reviews 250,000 domain names target

FOLLOWING the review of its earlier set target of 250, 000 uptake for the Nigeria's country code Top Level Domain names, .ng, by 2015, the management of the Nigerian Internet Registration Association said it has set a lower target of 150,000 domains for the same period.This was disclosed by the Chief Operating Officer of NIRA, Mr. Ope Odusan, in a chat during the week.NIRA manages the Nigeria's identity on cyberspace and its associated sub-level domain names and ensures cost-effective administration of the .ng Top Level Domain, ccTLD.Though NIRA had earlier projected to record 250,000 .ng domain names by 2015, Odusan, however, stated the target had been 'realistically reviewed', as some domain names already registered were not renewed by their owners, making them inactive.'Before now, we had recorded about 40, 000 .ng domain names but we have also discovered that active ones among them are about 35, 000 due to the fact that some domain registrants have now done their annual renewal,' he said.He also disclosed that NIRA had been engaging in both local and international events with a view to further championing the relevance of using the .ng domain names.NIRA, he said, recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria, IXPN, with a view to improving the ease of access to, and availability of the .ng Registry.According to him, 'Using .ng has a lot of advantages. It is very secure and it is very fast in terms content locating on the Universal Resource Locator.'Our services run 24 hours every day and users don't need to be afraid of any down time because we have scaled up our infrastructures as we now have up to five redundancies for our domain. An in terms of security, .ng is as secure as any other domain in the world. It does not have bad image. It is the kind of business that you do and the emailMeanwhile, Odusan has stated that NIRA would soon organised a national workshop to train webmasters and other key professionals in the businesses of web designing and development and content developers.
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