The President of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), Mr Sunday Folayan, has said that 2,767 domain names were registered in June.

Folayan made this known in a statement made available to newsmen in Lagos.

The statement said that there was an increase of 79 registered domain names in June when compared to the 2,688 registered in May.

It said that 1,686 domain names were renewed in June, noting that there was an increase of 163 renewals when compared to the 1,523 renewed in the month of May.

According to the statement, the association transferred 96 domain names, showing an increase of 19, compared to the 77 transferred in May.

“The domain name registration in May was high compared to the registrations in the past three months of this year. The renewal rate also showed an increase in the past two months.

“The total number of domain names registration from January to June 2016 is 14,966 registrations and 9,271 renewals.

“It is interesting and refreshing to witness such growth. The renewal rate is also encouraging with the increase in the past two months,” the statement said.

It said that .ng, like naira and the +234 country code, was the official Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) for Nigeria.

The statement added that the availability of names was better on the .ng ccTLD than on the generic top-level domain (gTLD) like .com. .org.

It said that with the .ng, the country’s primary DNS servers were secured and locally managed with multiple cast servers located around the world.

The statement added that hosting businesses on the .ng would help to support the Nigerian economy and provide jobs for local Information Technology (IT) professionals.