Nigeria, Kenya sign MoU for domain name registration
L-r: Sunday Folayan, Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), Abdalla Omari (GM, KeNIC), Goran Marby (President/CEO ICANN), Pierre Dandjinou (ICANN VP-Africa), during the signing ceremony, recently.
The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), managers of .ng Country Top Level Domain (ccTLD) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kenictld, the managers of .ke ccTLD in Kenya.
The MOU will give NiRA accredited registrars the opportunity to register domain names directly in the Kenyan Registry, pay in their local currency and vice versa.
Sunday Folayan, the President of NiRA, pointed out that with the MoU, Nigerians will be able to register (locally) domains such as amasi.ke, fola.ke, aji.ke, nwazuri.ke, asha.ke, tinu.ke, uzodi.ke, fun.ke, ki.ke, chigo.ke, ron.ke, rola.ke, ugho.ke, adeni.ke, olani.ke, which are all within the Kenyan name spaces.
Folayan declared in a Facebook post that “the Nigerian ccTLD is open to the entire world, so very many Nigerian domain names, such as cheu.ng, cha.ng, samsu.ng, bi.ng, shoppi.ng, routi.ng, domaini.ng etc are registered by not necessarily Nigerian entities.”
He affirmed that the signing of the MOU is a natural thing to do, to take Nigeria global stage.
The signing ceremony was performed at the end of the ICANN Government Advisory Committee (GAC) Africa Workshop in Nairobi, Kenya and witnessed by key players within the African and Global Internet Community, including the President/CEO of ICANN – Goran Marby, Internet Pioneer – Prof. Nii Quaynor, representing the African Internet Community, Immediate Past President NIRA – Mrs Mary Uduma, NIRA Board of Trustees member – Emmanuel Edet, NIRA’s Financial Secretary – Sikiru Shehu, NiRA’s Chief Operating Officer Edith Udeagu and AFRINIC Board/ICANN ALAC member Ojedeji Seun.
