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

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25 pointsOoTheNigerian22 comments

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

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.

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

omnomn.om would have been the one!

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

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

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.

what is bi .ng? nigerian bisexuals association?

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.

and now it seems it's yourself who's being "accidentally" upvoted...

anyway, do you have anything to say about the topic?

do you consider vandalizing local top-level domains with meaningless BS (that local people might have used for something relevant to them) appropriate?

I don't care if I get up voted or down voted for what I posted. I simply didn't want your retarded comment getting a wave of up votes because I accidentally help start the process. I would do the same to any useless "funny" comment I saw on here.

at least my "retarded comment" was on topic. usefulness depends on whether you got the idea or not. but as you refuse to comment on topic, I assume you haven't even read what we're talking about.

The parent comment to your original comment was not the topic of the article, so I'm not sure why you keep dragging that into the discussion. You commented on his comment and I commented on your comment. Your comment was useless to the discussion. My comment was useless to the discussion as well as it was a meta-comment about how I up voted you on accident. Now we're in a long chain of meta-comments.

I'm sorry, so far the only one who haven't written a single word about .ng or ccTLDs in general in this topic is you. I have to end this "retarded" back-and-forth.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

poopi.ng

yay! let the DNS system abusi.ng begin!

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