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In December 2017, the web hosting company HUB8 conducted a study on the use of domain names in the national domain of Nigeria named .NG.

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.NG Domain Usage Report

In December 2017, the web hosting company HUB8 conducted a study on the use of domain names in the national domain of Nigeria named .NG.

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NG DOMAIN December 2017

USAGE STATISTICS
In December 2017, the web hosting company HUB8 conducted a study on the use of domain
names in the national domain of Nigeria named .NG.

According to the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), 100,973 domains were
registered in .NG domain zone on November 30, 2017. HUB8 has made a research on 89,165
domain names in the .NG domain zone and created the following report which describes the
details of the usage of .NG domains as relating to website hosting.

The report does not include data on premium domains (about 2,000) and some special
domains that are technically registered though not used by end users.

Distribution by domain zones


The most popular domain zone is .COM.NG, having almost Domain Number
of Share
70% of all national domains registered. zone domains
The .NG domain zone comes next although within the zone a .com.ng 61,609 69,1%

domain name is shorter but domain registration here costs .ng 15,352 17,2%

several times more than in .com.ng while .ORG.NG which is .org.ng 6,077 6,8%
.gov.ng 1,738 1,9%
usually used by non-profit organizations ranks third with a
.edu.ng 996 1,1%
large backlog.
.net.ng 822 0,9%
.name.ng 731 0,8%
.sch.ng 722 0,8%
.i.ng 531 0,6%
.mobi.ng 329 0,4%
.mil.ng 258 0,3%
Active websites
Number
Domain
of Share There are currently 38,864 websites in the .NG domain, not
zone domains including the sites that fail to open due to the connection
.com.ng 28,502 73,34% timeout, redirects and the ones throwing an error
.ng 5,819 14,97%
(page is not found).
.org.ng 2,720 7,00%
.edu.ng 519 1,34%
The existing sites are
.gov.ng 519 1,34%
hosted only in half of the
.sch.ng 277 0,71% .COM.NG
.net.ng 224 0,58%
.COM.NG and one-third
.name.ng 151 0,39% of the .NG domains.
.i.ng 115 0,30% .NG
.mil.ng 9 0,02%
.ORG.NG
.mobi.ng 9 0,02%

Operating status of .NG and .COM.NG domains


Operating sites are reported on 45% of .COM.NG and .NG Active website 34,320 45,3%
domains. 15% of registered domains are with errors Not resolving 24,906 32,9%
indicating ”connection time-out” presumably for some Time out 11,314 15%
temporary problems regarding hosting or channels. Redirect 2,706 3,6%
About 3% of domains are redirected to other sites and the Website error 2,429 3,2%

same number displaying error pages such as "404 Page Not Found" or "500 Server Error".

Hosting country of .COM.NG and .NG domain sites

The dominant countries where site hosting often occurs Number


Country of Share
were determined for the .NG and .COM.NG domains. domains
The overwhelming number of sites are located in the US United States 24,772 72,2%
(72%). Netherlands 2,085 6,1%

Out of the 34,000 sites, less than 1,000 are located in United Kingdom 1,341 3,9%
Germany 1,277 3,7%
Nigeria, which is only 2.3% of the total.
South Africa 1,230 3,6%
The country of origin for the remaining 3% of sites could
N/A 1,019 3,0%
not be identified so Nigeria's share is slightly larger though
Nigeria 774 2,3%
still not comparable with the amount of hosting abroad.
France 408 1,2%
Canada 361 1,1%
Other 1,054 3,1%
Content Management Systems of the .COM.NG and .NG domains

Often used Content Management System was detected in Number


Country of Share
the existing websites, stating that the most popular CMS domains
is expected to be WordPress, being installed on every one No CMS 19,513 56,9%
in three sites in the .NG and .COM.NG domains. WordPress 11,597 33,8%
Blogger 1,467 4,3%
WordPress has a 78% share of all used CMS. Blogging is Joomla 930 2,7%
currently very popular in Nigeria: almost 1,500 domains Opencart 255 0,7%
are affiliated with Blogger.com. Drupal 172 0,5%
Magento 102 0,3%
PrestaShop 75 0,2%
Specialized CMS utilized for e-commerce; such as
Shopify 39 0,1%
Magento, Prestashop, Shopify, WooCommerce,
Other CMS 171 0,5%
nopCommerce, osCommerce and
X-Cart use about 500 sites in the .COM.NG and .NG zones.

Websites with the longest domain names

The longest .NG domain name with operational website:


southernbornoglobalinitiatives.ng
The longest domain names in second level .NG domains with operational websites:
federalschoolofoccupationaltherapyyaba.gov.ng
womenentrepreneursassociationofnigeria.org.ng
.NG and .COM.NG domains ranked by domain name length

.NG domain tends to have shorter domain names - most popular choice is 6-8 characters
comparing to 8-10 characters of .COM.NG domain names.

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.NG .COM.NG

HUB8 is a global web hosting company helping brands and individuals


easily set-up a website. Our ultimate goal is to become a Growth
Partner for individuals and small enterprises in emerging markets in
Domains. Hosting. Websites. Africa, Asia and Latin America.
We are providing FREE web hosting because we are aware that people
in these countries postpone launching a website due to the
investments involved.
We want to make it possible for all to have a personal or business
website without worrying about the costs.

We have created this report to promote the national domain of


Nigeria .NG. Register your .NG domain on the HUB8 Nigeria website -
https://ng.hub8.com (or https://hub8.ng).

© 2017 HUB8. Any data from this report is allowed for use if reference
is made to https://ng.hub8.com.

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