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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Success Ndukwe and Nigerians!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [AfrICANN-discuss] Nigeria
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<H2 style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3px">Nigeria Attains Full Control
of .ng ccTLD</H2><TT style="COLOR: black">By Efem Nkanga, 05.18.2009</TT>
<P align=justify>The Nigerian Internet community has effected the
redelegation of the .ng ccTLD and attained full local management of the
domain. The President, Internet Registration Association of Nigeria ,
Engr Ndukwe Kalu, disclosed this in a statement made available to THISDAY
yesterday.<BR>Ndukwe stated that Nigeria had for long sought for full control
which if finally attained at ‘’exactly 4pm GMT May 13, 2009, when
Verisign made the ICANN approved root server changes to the .ng ccTLD, a few
hours later ICANN/IANA effected the board approved redelegation of the
Nigerian ccTLD on the IANA website’’ He reiterated that ‘’This effectively
brings to an end the long drawn desire and expectation of the Nigerian
Internet community to effect redelegation of the .ng ccTLD and full local
management’’.<BR>Ndukwe went down memory lane and disclosed that the .ng ccTLD
journey started in 1995 with the first delegation to one of Mrs
Ibukun Odusote as the then admin contact. He added that by 2004 with the
intervention of the former president of Nigeria Chief Olusegun Obasanjo the
Nigerian Internet community represented by the G22 reached a consensus on a
not for profit all inclusive body to manage the .ng ccTLD. With the formation
and final election of the NIRA executive board in May 2007 the stage was then
set for conclusion of the redelegation process and fully localize the
management of the ng cc TLD<BR>He added that the attempt to obtain full
control met with a lot of challenges because as a totally new entity the
executive had to concentrate on putting in place the required structure and
infrastructure that would sustain the .ng ccTLD. He added that the efforts has
however paid off because the .ng ccTLD would now be offering its domains in
the ccTLD with the most robust technical infrastructure in Africa . The .ng
ccTLD according to him is the only ccTLD with multiple anycast name servers
offering local resolutions of .ng domain in over 40 cities in five continents
with a 100% uptime guarantee. He reiterated that apart from that Nigeria is
the second country in Africa to have a fully automated registry with full EPP
access making it of global standard that allow registrars from all over the
world to interact with it. Now with the Nigerian registry anyone can
register a .ng in seconds and be sure that the name would always be available
and visitors to the websites would get translations of the domain names in
over 40 local cities making for better web experience.</P>
<P align=justify>Ndukwe added that this was a defining moment for
the Nigerian Internet community and Nigerians. He added that the
redelgation makes NIRA the sponsoring organization and manager of the .nccTLD
bringing the .ng as desired to the greater participation of all
stakeholders both government and private sector. He stressed that it has also
accorded the former head of NITDA the late Prof Ajayi a new peace as one of
his key desires comes to pass and his name is rested from the IANA website.
According to him, with the change NIRA has deemphasized personalization of the
domain managers but rather has used roles with the admin contact as the role
of NIRA President.</P>
<P align=justify> He also emphasized that the issue NIRA has to grapple
with now is that of the full population of the .ng ccTLD, a task which he
described as very daunting because of the primary reason that all of the
African ccTLDs put together cannot make the ccTLD Top 25. He stated that for
an Information Age where the main asset is knowledge, a firm presence in
cyberspace cannot be overemphasized. According to him NIRA is set to tackle
this challenge by massively pursuing the population of the .ng ccTLD. It
would start this quest by coming out with key projects to achieve this. The
vision of NIRA is domiciled in making Nigeria to make the ccTLD
top 20 by year 2011. He emphasised that this vision is not just for the sake
of making the top 20 but to positively impact the Nigerian economy because
with the development of the Nigerian cyberspace countless opportunities would
be born for both the state and citizens.</P><BR>-- <BR>This message has been
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