The Nigerian Internet Registration Association (NiRA) has released a report on the number of .ng domains registered in the year 2014. NiRA is the registry for .ng website names and maintains the database of names registered in the .ng country code Top Level Domain.
According to NiRA, 18,870 domains were registered, 11,907 were renewed and 765 domains were transferred, in 2014. The number of NiRA-accredited registrars remain at 47, although some applications are said to still in the process of being finalised.
According to NiRA’s report, ” December 2014 recorded a drop in the .ng domain name purchase… There was also a slight decrease in the number of domain names renewed in the same month … Interestingly, there was a remarkable increase in the transfer window. This could be traced to entrance of new registrars”.
The final statistics of domain registrations, supplied by NiRA are as follows:
January: 1,425
February: 1,498
March: 2,317
April: 1,691
May: 1,408
June: 1,335
July: 1,402
August: 1,437
September: 1, 531
October: 1,581
November: 1,742
December: 1,503
