Comments on: Nigerian cc-TLD (.ng domains) – Something is definitely wrong

By: obi from South Africa

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:01:29 +0000

i’m happy i’m not the only one complaining about the .ng domain. it’s been over 7 weeks and i cant even get a reply over the registration/handover of my domain name. i have even gone to NITDA in Abuja and yet nothing was done on it. i even called the professor himself on his mobile phone and to this moment not even a phone call or a text message signifying any sort of response was or has been sent to muy phone. it’s really embarrassing!

By: GoldOasis Blog from Texas, United States

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:16:13 +0000

.ng domains registration suspended temporarily

Web4Africa has been offering .ng domain name registration since 2006. Unfortunately, we’re forced to stop registering .ng domain names at this time due to the gross inefficiency on the part of the .ng registry.
Domains submitted for registration …

By: Cyril Robinson from Edo, Nigeria

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:33:28 +0000

If I may be right, NIRA is just a body without the tool for national empowerment, operating from a boys-quarters:mrgreen:. I can not imagine in the whole wide world of information technology era where priority of unseriousness are placed above national assignment. If it not going to work, why all the noice about free .ng for. Would it not rather be made all publice test-run affair before it’s national awareness?.

Can you imaging Akinbo A. A. C who claimed to be a member of NIRA talk; Man, you should be flogged seriously, I am not joking. Yes! you need some cover-up for NIRA but not in this acidic situation when almost all our national websites are down. I am not surprise. I watched the clarion call for .ng for free registration and I rates the service with ‘additional epileptic service that will not work.

Nigerian TLD manned by NIRA and Coordinated by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) should device immediate alternative means to make all domains that went down start working without any further delay and be advised to have emergency backup in the case of future occurrence.

This a national issue and should be handled with utmost care as not to be seen as unserious nation.

By: » Yemma is back! - Oluniyi David Ajao » Blog Archive from Texas, United States

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:27:26 +0000

[...] but not yet on his old .ng domain – yemma.com.ng His blog has been down for months now because the .ng registry threw it into the wilderness after deleting his domain [...]

By: Akinbo A. A. Cornerstone from South Africa

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:53:26 +0000

How many of you started walking the day you were born ? How much do you know about NiRA ? What is it about comparing a Nation that has failed over a hundred years to realize what nationality means to a Nation within a Nation that is just absorbing democracy and development in the Information Technology ?

NiRA is just two years old…it got registered of recent with the Corporate Affairs and is willing to grow. Domain registration is still free and still fine tunning itself for stardom and all we can do is tear it apart with words ? I believe we can do better than words of destructive analysis but constructive notions that should put us side by side with South Africa.

On this note, if you feel you understand how it should be run, the technology needed to sustain the domination and consistent stability of all domain, speak out ! We have a site that takes care of such complaints which i feel will further strengthen our backbone.

I am a youth…a member of the Nigeria iNTERNET Registration Association (NiRA), a true born of the west of of Africa and a citizen of Nigeria. Am Black and proud, what about you ?

Akinbo A. A. Cornestone
Continental Director, SCN-Africa,
Save Children Now.

http://www.savechildrennow.org
akinbo@savechildrennow.org
+2348064464545

http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/pscornerstone

By: Oluniyi David Ajao from Ghana

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:51:49 +0000

Punch, a leading Nigerian daily, also carried the news. See http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20070628233245

By: Edward Popoola from Kenya

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:53:11 +0000

I got a call today about it from someone that needed answers, I could’nt imagine at first and my first conclusion was that it must be a host issue. Now I know the .ng has gone on a break

By: imnakoya from Minnesota, United States

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:32:28 +0000

Ng domian is down? I’m not surprised…and no one should!

By: Ugo Daniels from Icel, Turkey

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:20:31 +0000

It goes on to show that we still have a very very long way to go in terms of competing fully in the fast tracking world of I.T The funny and sad thing about thing is that ‘The Nigerian Factor’ lives on. I can’t imagine that saomeone responsible for such a sensitive task could leave it unattended and go on vacation…dats str8 up bullshit. I just don’t understand why such things can’t work in NIgeria but works everywhere else. Are we doomed as a people or what!?

Legal actions should be taken against them. People are losing money whenever the site goes down. It’s issues like this that i LOVE the states sooo much. By now, they would be coughing out close to millions of dollars in damages. It’s an open and shut case…

By: Emmanuel from Lagos, Nigeria

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:24:18 +0000

Hm… I don’t really know where to start from. I agree with everyone that we are not ready to manage the .ng TLD in-house. My domain http://www.yemma.com.ng has been down now for 5 weeks and nobody seems to understand when it is going to come back.

I really wish one can sue these people. Anyway, let’s hope they do something fast. I have stopped recommending .ng to clients and friends.