The management of two African leading registries, the
Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), and the Kenya Network
Information Centre (KeNIC), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to make
the relationship of their registrars easily accessible, reports ITRealms.
While NIRA is the managers of .NG country code Top Level
Domain, KeNIC is the managers of .ke ccTLD.
Disclosing this to ITRealms, the President of NIRA, Rev.
Sunday Folayan, in a joint press statement said he and KeNIC chief executive
officer, Mr. Abdalla Omari endorsed the MoU on behalf of their respective
organisations, last week Tuesday.
The signing, he also said, took place as sideline event at
the just concluded ICANN Government Advisory Committee (GAC) which took place
in Nairobi, Kenya.
He pointed out that 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 cum registrant.
“The MOU parties warrant that Accreditation of registrars
either under the NiRA and KENIC registries is deemed sufficient for the provision
of registrar services with NiRA and KENIC and registrars shall not be required
to undergo the accreditation process under the respective registry to provide
registrar services,” he underscored.
Even as he highlighted that 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.
“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 etc which are all
within the Kenyan name spaces” he enthused.
Maintaining that the Nigerian ccTLD (.NG) is open to the
entire world, hence many Nigerian domain names, such necessarily Nigerian
entities should ensure they are on .NG.
The signing ceremony was 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
Seun Ojedeji.
Remmy Nweke/ED, Ops
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