NIRA Reduces Price Of .ng Domain By 40% 

Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) has reduced the price of .NG domain by over forty per cent (40%) to promote Nigeria’s digital economy.

NiRA is responsible for maintaining the database of registered names in the .ng country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) namespace in the public interest of Nigeria and the global internet community.

Our findings show that .NG domain name sold between N11,000 and N13,500, depending on the registrar. However, NiRA has reduced the price to N5,500.

Domains which are registered on this domain string therefore have several benefits which include geo-targeting and the reduction of capital flight as well as contribution to the local economy.

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There have been many efforts by the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) managers of .ng on behalf of the Nigerian government, to continually increase access to .ng domains, for the promotion of expertise and businesses online.

NiRA partners with over seventy (70) Accredited Companies known as Registrars and conducts empowerment programs for Resellers (who are even closer to the grassroots) as ways of making these domain names more available.

Recently, initiatives such as the ability to correct errors in domain names within 24 hours at no cost to the registrant, as well as the opening of hitherto closed .ng strings, such as .net.ng, have greatly increased the number of businesses who can make themselves available online through .ng domain names.

In addition to the foregoing, the Executive Board of NiRA approved the reduction in price of .ng domains at the second level, further encouraging the public to register the domains.

The Nigerian internet space went agog with this new development, with NiRA Accredited Registrars sending broadcasts to their customers stating that the price of .ng domains have now reduced.

According to the Mr. Muhammed Rudman, NiRA’s President, the reduction in price by about 40%, promotes the agenda of government towards the growth of Nigeria’s Digital Economy, superintended by Professor Isa Pantami, the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy.