Nira Begins Re-delegation Process

Nigeria Internet Registration Association (Nira) has began re-delegation process that will launch the association into full commercialization of the nation’s country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) name dot ng, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek can now reveal.
The proposed commercialization of .ng, allows Nigerians all over the world and corporate organizations to register their businesses in .ng domains name.
Full commercialization and automated services were billed to have commenced last month but was suspended because of modalities for the re-delegation has not been approved.
Kalu Ndukwe, president of Nira, said that the re-delegation is to change the contact, technical detail of sponsoring organization to Nira in line with the mandate it received and the MoU it signed with National Information Technology Development Agency Nitda and two Nigerian servers abroad.  
In the new arrangement, emphasis will be led on official positions rather than persons in the registration process, so that there won’t be such things as the name of the president or any specific person. Also email identifications will emphasis position title as against personal names with official telephone numbers.
All references to individuals have now been removed to avoid changing of names when the admin contact is no longer there.