Interesti.ng. The first .ng domain name has been registered.

http://oonwoye.com/2010/12/30/first-ng-domain-name-registered/

by OoTheNigerian • 16 years ago

25 22 16 years ago

yuvadam• 16 years ago

It's only a matter of time before the Nigerian authorities realize how much money they can make from allowi.ng TLD registrations.

sjs• 16 years ago

Wonder if they allow single-letter domain names. I'd love to get i.ng and just go nuts with it. ti.ng would be pretty good too.

cosmicray• 16 years ago

I wanted urm.om, but Oman didn't seem like the kind of place that go there.

borism5• 16 years ago

yay! let the DNS system abusi.ng begin!

locopati• 16 years ago

What is the reliability of TLD registrations in other countries? While it seems like a nice idea to have a clever name, have there been problems working with foreign registrars?

natrius• 16 years ago

Your domain name is subject to seizure no matter where you register it, and that was proven to not be theoretical recently in the US.

scotje• 16 years ago

Other than having to mail them a paper check(!), registering js.co.tt with the Trinidad and Tabago NIC was fairly painless. As others have mentioned though, you are pretty much always at the whim of the local government. If you wouldn't trust the local judicial system to fairly adjudicate any disputes, you might want to think twice before basing your business on their TLD.

olalonde• 16 years ago

There has been a number of issues with .ly http://www.domainnamenews.com/cctlds/libyan-government-seize...

burriko• 16 years ago

I'm in the UK and recently had a .ca domain name deleted by the registrar after owning it for 3 years. The registrar had been acting as a 'local presence agent' to bypass the requirements that .ca domains be registered by a Canadian citizen or business, of which I am neither. Apparently something changed and they received an official notice from the regulatory authority for .ca domains (CIRA) asking them to stop providing this service.

Luckily nothing really became of the domain, so it wasn't a big deal.

robfitz• 16 years ago

I call bi.ng. Nobody else take it, please.

The traditional high-value domains have been nouns, which sort of makes sense because we used to have a 1:1 relationship between companies and their sites. Now it's 1:* relationship, with individual sites for particular actions. Opening up a TLD that fit well with those verbs would be very pleasant. Oo mentioned some company-centric ones in the article (e.g. Googling) but I think much stronger ones would be along the lines of shari.ng and golfi.ng.

borism5• 16 years ago

what is bi .ng? nigerian bisexuals association?

coderdude3• 16 years ago

I only accidentally upvoted you. Now everyone is going to think this is worth upvoting since people already started to. I wish we could take our votes back.

abjr• 16 years ago

Looks like Dyn.com will be managing the .ng TLD. (old press release)

http://dyn.com/open-dialogue/press-releases/nigeria-chooses-...

tgandrews• 16 years ago

I didn't see a date when this would become available for everyone.

I tried registering an Estonian domain once (.ee TLD), but require the business to be registered there. Don't countries realises domain names are just that, names. The ending really means very little to people. Who thinks all .tv domains are companies from Tuvalu?

endtime• 16 years ago

Well, Tuvalu sold their TLD to a private business...kind of a different situation.

timparker2• 16 years ago

poopi.ng

Interesti.ng. The first .ng domain name has been registered.

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