1 Guide to Registering a Nigerian Domain Rev. 0.9a – 24th Jan 2007 This guide h

1 Guide to Registering a Nigerian Domain Rev. 0.9a – 24th Jan 2007 This guide has been written to give basic information needed to successfully register a domain under the Nigerian (.ng) Top Level Domain. The Nigerian Registry is operated following guidelines on the operation of a registry, contained in RFC1591. (http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1591.html) Registering under a country Top Level Domains (ccTLD), usually depends on whether the country domain is Open or Closed. Nigeria operates a closed domain system, it is not open to everyone. Examples of open domains include Tonga .to, Western Samoa .ws, Tuvalu .tv and Cocos Island .cc. Examples of closed domains include Registration can be done by selecting “Dot-NG Registration Tool” from the Registry’s website at http://www.register.net.ng or directly at the URL http://db.register.net.ng Disclaimer By the registration of your name on the Internet, the registrar NiRA, The Technical POC (randy@psg.com), the IANA, and the National Science Foundation are accepting in good faith that you have the right to use the name. Our function in registering names on the Internet is to assure that the name does not conflict with any other name in the name space requested. The use by your registration and use of the name and/or your continued use of an existing name, agrees, as part of your request for name registration, to indemnify and hold harmless from any and all costs, fees, expenses arising from litigation involving trademark, trade name, service mark, and any other name infringements, or other reasons, the registrar, the IANA, and the National Science Foundation. The party requesting registration of this name certifies that to her/his knowledge, the use of this name does not violate trademark or other statutes. Registering a domain name does not confer any legal rights to that name and any disputes between parties over the rights to use a particular name are to be settled between the contending parties using normal legal methods (See RFC 1591). SECTION A. IMPORTANT Considerations Before registering any domain, please take note of the following points. I ADMINISTRATIVE Issues 1. Registrations must be from organizations with a real presence in Nigeria and with a demonstrable intent to use the domain name on a regular basis on the Internet. I.e brand, vanity, placemark, trademark, service mark. Name registration is not appropriate. I.e., one registration per organization. 2. Choice of the domain name that you want to register. If you are registering a domain for the first time, please take a look at “Choosing an appropriate Domain Name” available at http://www.register.net.ng. 3. Applications must specify an Administrative contact who works within the organization that will be using the domain name. The administrative contact is responsible for appointing or removing the technical contact. 2 4. Applications must specify a technical contact, whose role is to administer the domain servers and attend to technical issues. The technical contact for a domain may or may not be an employee of the organization requesting the domain but must understand the basics of Domain Name Services (DNS) and must be able to handle the servers in a responsible manner. 5. Every person (Handle) listed in your application must be a real person that is reachable by telephone between 0900hrs and 1700hrs (GMT+1). The person must also be able to read and reply to emails within a reasonable period of time. Role function is allowed, but must ultimately have a person at the other end. For example, CEO is a role, but someone must answer as CEO. II TECHNICAL Considerations (Basic Services) If your intention is simply to host a website, have www.yourdomain.whatever.ng and also provide basic Email services of the form whoever@yourdomain.whatever.ng then this section is for you. If you want to have hostnames beyond www.yourdomain.whatever.ng and you want to use other types of hostnames/use other types of services, then please jump to Advanced Services. 1. You need to obtain the IP address of the Server of your Server hosting company. 2. If you want your server to respond to requests of the form http://yourdomain.whatever.ng then you must specify both the A record, and the WWW record. 3. If you want your users to have Email addresses of the form whoever@yourdomain.whatever.ng but you do not have the resources to run an Email server, then the IP address of your Email host must be specified as the MX host. 4. It is your responsibility to see that an IN-ADDR pointer record is entered in the DNS database. (For internet hosts only). Contact the administrator of the IP network your host is on to have this done. The NG Domain administration does not administer the network and cannot make these entries in the DNS database. III TECHNICAL Considerations (Advanced Services) 1. You must have two different domain servers which are in different locations that are not served by the same international backbone providers. The rationale for this is contained in RFC2182 (http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2182.html 2. This is to ensure that it takes more than a single network outage to stop your domain names from resolving. Please note that a number of domain servers have different IP address ranges but are hosted behind the same router/gateway; such servers do not qualify since an outage of that router would mean that both domain servers would be unreachable. 3. Unlike registering com/net/org domains, you need to configure your domain servers with at least an SOA and two NS records BEFORE putting in your application. This is to ensure that when checks are being carried out on your application, your domain servers will be consistent and will be passed easily the first time. 4. Your domain servers should be hosted in locations that are reachable on the Internet round-the-clock. Verification checks could be carried out at any time of the day. 5. Queries to your domain name servers must return the same resource records (specifically NS) as you have specified in the domain registration application submitted. They should also return the same SOA. 6. Putting in an application when you have not setup the servers is not a smart move as it only delays your application. The logic behind the verification check scheduling is such that each new domain application has a fair chance of being passed within the shortest 3 possible time frame. If you put in a careless application and it fails the required checks, it has to wait until the next scheduled check before verification is retried. During periods of peak activity, you would be better off making sure that all your technical and administrative details were setup properly before putting in the application at all. SECTION B. Registering the Domain. Step by Step Guide Please follow the step-by-step guide below, which corresponds with the registration steps within the Domain Registration Tool. Step 1: Specify, Change or Create Identity Handle This step gives you the opportunity to create a handle, change the details of a handle, recover the password of an existing handle, or login to the system by specifying an Identity handle. The Identity Handle is formed by concatenating the initial letters of the first and last names of the user, a sequential number, and the word NIRA appended to it. For example, if James Adogi tries to create an handle, it could be JA754-NIRA. This is consistent with Handles such as those of InterNIC, RIPE or AfriNIC. A valid handle is needed to access the Registration Tool. A. Create Identity Handle First time users must create an identity handle, with which they can then login to the registration tool. To create a handle, please follow these steps: i Click Step-1 from the quick steps. ii Click on the quick link to create a handle iii Complete the details of the new handle. Take note of the following fields a) Email Address: The email address must be unique in the entire registry. Two registrants cannot share the same Email address. Note that the password will be sent to this Email address, hence it must be functional. This field is mandatory and required. b) Alternate Email Address: All correspondences are copied to the alternate Email address. Multiple Email addresses must be separated by comma. Note that the alternative Email address need not be unique within the registry. This field is optional. c) Full Name: Use the format – Firstname Lastname. For Example: Ojo Ige.. This field is mandatory. d) Mother’s Maiden Name: Please use any response that suits you here. Should you have the need to recover your password, you must specify the same response for the recovery to succeed. This field is optional. e) Organizational Name: Please specify the organization where the entity requesting the handle works, or is affiliated to. This field is mandatory. f) Address: Specify the address of the entity. For example: PO Box 117. This field is mandatory. g) City: Specify the City. For example: Abuja. This field is mandatory h) Postal Code: The Postal code to be used is as defined by the Nigeria Postal Service. This field is currently optional, but will be mandatory in the future. uploads/Politique/ guide-to-registering-a-nigerian-domain-disclaimer.pdf

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