Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), the managers of .ng Country Top Level Domain (ccTLD), the Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC), the managers of .ke ccTLD and the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) Ltd, one of the world’s five regional Internet registries (RIRs) have different agreements to develop, certify skills and grow .NG internet penetrations.
NiRA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with AFRINIC on January 24, 2017 in Nairobi, Kenya, to develop and certify skills in Internet Number Resources Management and IPv6 in Nigeria. The AFRINIC MoU creates accessibility to international IPv6 certification for Nigerian system and network engineers, and provides the opportunity for Nigeria to increase the number of internationally-recognised and skilled IPv6 engineers.
On the MoU with KeNIC, Folayan, signed on behalf of the .ng registry, while Mr Abdalla Omari, the CEO, KeNIC signed on behalf of the .ke registry. The MoU specifies the mutual rights and obligations of the parties to foster a working registry relationship to enable accredited registrars under both registries to provide registrar services and associated services for prospective applicants/registrant.
The cooperation will give NiRA accredited registrars the opportunity to register domain names directly in the Kenyan registry, pay in their local currency and vice versa. The MoU should boost the quantity of domain names registered at both registries and also have a positive impact on the domain name business in Africa.