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Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) first quarter report has capped the country’s domain name at 90,036 in total.
The NiRA report reveals that the entire Africa’s continent has less than two million domain names.
TheNewsGuru reports South Africa’s .za is having a total of 1,148,095; Kenya’s .ke a total of 61, 623 domain names. The United kingdom, the .co.uk has 10,600,000; China, .cn has 21,100,00; and India, .in has 2,235,471.
The Dean of NiRA Academy, Sikiru Shehu, at a workshop in Lagos, lamented Nigeria with the population of about 180 million is having less than 100,000 domains on the .ng string.
“However, as worrisome as these figures could be, what is obvious here are great avenues to generate jobs, create wealth and employment opportunities.
“Just imagine, a 10 million .ng domain count in Nigeria today, and the multiplier effects on websites development, domain names hosting, content development and so on. For me, domain name business is a big business and the DNS industry is very large. I see a very huge opportunity to generate jobs, create wealth, and earn forex, reduction in capital flight, boosts availability of local contents,” he said.
Shehu identified many factors to be responsible for the slow growth of the DNS industry in Africa generally.
These he said include low awareness; poor Internet infrastructure and penetration; lack of government policy in member countries that can drive the uptake of Africa ccTLDs; preferences for foreign domain names; poverty of minds and ideas; insufficient skilled personnel for the DNS Industry; and the absence of creative and innovative DNS entrepreneurs (Internetpreneurs).