Finally, the Nigeria’s internet industry received a boost as
the global internet body, Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers
[ICANN] announced the accreditation of Nigeria’s leading registrar,
Upperlink, reports
ITRealms.
Upperlink is first Nigerian registrar and eighth accredited
registrar on the content of Africa by ICANN, just as the new status, would
avail Upperlink to serve Nigerian and international markets comfortably.
Upperlink’s core areas are in internet and mobile
applications, software development and deployment, database management, systems
integration and cloud solutions.
As the leading Nigeria Internet Registration Association
[NIRA]’s registrar, Upperlink is in the forefront of registrars spearheading
the migration of Nigerian companies from .com to the .ng domain name, which is
Nigeria's Country Code Top Level Domain.
The Managing Director and chief executive officer (CEO),
UpperLink, Mr Segun Akano, said the .ng domain “is a shorter and unique
domain.”
As ICANN registrar, he said, Upperlink would offer Nigerians
opportunities to register any domain name extension such as .com, .org, .net
etc at affordable prices locally.
Upperlink’s accreditation follows a similar exercise that
was achieved in Ghana, Senegal and South Africa.
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