Registry NiRA, which manages Nigeria's ccTLD .NG, has announced a significant price reduction. The price of annual registration of a name in the national domain zone is reduced immediately by 40%. This means that now you can register a .NG domain for 5,500 NGN, which is equivalent to about $13, according to Domain Incite. Previously, the cost of annual registration of a name in the national domain of Nigeria was about 18-19 dollars. Such measure is the implementation of one of the points of the digital economic policy plan adopted by the government of Nigeria.
The new prices are comparable to those for registration in the .COM domain. Representatives of the NiRA registry expect that the measure will increase the competitiveness and popularity of the national Nigerian domain. The step cannot but be considered quite justified: the .NG domain was delegated back in 1995 to the College of Technology in Lagos, and in its current form, as a full-fledged national domain managed by NiRA, has been operating since 2005. However, today there are only about 178,000 registered domain names in the .NG domain zone, which, of course, is extremely small for a country with a population of about 206 million people.
