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.ng is the most dangerous cctld
- joelrunyon 13y agoCan we get a TLDR? It's not that it was too long - it's more that it was just illegible.
- masklinn 13y ago.ng's registrar (NIRA) will pull your domain without asking or recourse if somebody proposes enough money for it.
- maaaats 13y agoNira, the registrar for .ng, apparently retracts valuable domains and sells them. The author claims that happened to gaming.ng, which was taken from him and sold for $10 000 usd/y.
- ipsin 13y agoICANN is acting as a TLDR, if you're interested.
- Pxtl 13y agoHave they proposed .tldr yet?
- IE5point5 13y agoDomain squatter upset about being scammed out of their squatting
- nwh 13y ago> although .ng is the most expensive cctld of all cctlds($100 usd per year),but it is the most dangerous cctld of all cctlds. .nr is $500 USD a year. http://www.cenpac.net.nr/dns/index.html http://www.cenpac.net.nr/dns/index.html I've dealt with them before. You really, really don't want to.
- henryaj 13y ago.pr (Puerto Rico) is $1000.
- buro9 13y agoThe European obscure domains can be pretty expensive too, but far more stable. .sm for San Marino is GBP 225 per year with Gandi
- davidw 13y ago(San Marino - Merino is a kind of wool - fascinating place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino )
- BerislavLopac 13y agoHow are the sheep/wool relevant to the country?
- buro9 13y agoDiet, climate, veterinary differences. Going back to bicycles, Brooks of England only use leather from Italy as they discovered that modern veterinary practices were focusing so heavily on meat production for the animals that the animals were producing a thinner and more brittle leather that didn't age well and had more imperfections. Brooks saddles require a thick leather, single piece with virtually no defects. So they had to find a source of leather where the primary use of the animal was the hide and food and other products were secondary. Fascinating stuff. Beyond particular breeds of livestock, it's about their environment, the country laws relating to veterinary practises and handling, etc.
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- nwh 13y ago(Merino is a very highly regarded breed of sheep specifically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merino )
- robinson-wall 13y ago.ng is not the most expensive cctld Off the top of my head I can think of .rw, which costs €220/yr (~$300) to foreign purchasers from one of the few registrars that provide it.
- antjanus 13y agomy guess is that it's the "most expensive" because you register, you pay, and then it gets seized and resold without your knowledge and without a way to appeal it. The author said games.ng got sold for 10,000USD/year (which WOULD make it the most expensive). I think the seizure adds to the price. Imagine ycombinator.com or even reddit.com sold to the highest bidder? Millions in damages.
- Tarang 13y ago.na Costs even more @ $ 5000.00+ per year (ref : http://www.101domain.com/na.htm http://www.101domain.com/na.htm)
- dublinben 13y agoWhy would anyone pay that much for a domain? Are there any notable sites using it?
- antsar 13y agoThat...was painful to read.
- spindritf 13y agoAs others pointed out, .ng is not the most expensive but I believe the most expensive is not .rw, or .nr but .ki at $1500/yr.
- danso 13y agoI guess this proves that there's a cosmic sense of humor? The ISO codes when parceled out pre-Internet ended up giving the most valuable (in English) Internet domain suffixes to some of the least stable countries (ly for Libya, sy for Syria, and so forth).
- sampo 13y agoI am not a native English speaker. Could you elaborate a bit, why those domain suffixes are so valuable in English?
- weathertop 13y agoBecause they allow a domain holder to be creative. .ly matches the ly suffix in English for example. So, thus you have adf.ly ... adfly.
- makeset 13y agoYour example doesn't demonstrate the ly suffix in English, incidental.ly.
- ozh 13y agoSad story. I'd avoid a number of African TLDs, to be honest. Remember the .ly fiasco a couple years back[1] [1] http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2010/10/the-ly-domain-space-to-be-considered-unsafe/ http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2010/10/the-ly-domain-space-to-b...
- blueskin_ 13y agoUsing a domain from an oppressive nation always seemed weird to me. Both in terms of censorship/hijacking risk, but also simply funding them. .ly is one of the classics there, but not the only one.
- thrillgore 13y agoAlso, the NIC in Libya threatened several times claiming that .ly domains had to fall within Sharia. I can guarantee that most bit.ly URLs rarely fell under that requirement.
- saraid216 13y agoIt's cool, so that means it's ethical! #hackerlogic
- notastartup 13y agodo you think .ly still suffers from the risk? do you think .it is safer?
- yuchi 13y agoWas that an ironic pointer to the Italian government, I’d laugh. Otherwise…
- maaaats 13y agoWow, way to miss the point, people. It's not about the price, but the fact that people are being robbed of their domains.
- astrodust 13y agoYou get robbed, and then you get robbed again. Then again, is this any surprise in a country like Nigeria? That country has a long, long way to go to claw its way from the absolute worst in terms of corruption.
- orochi235 13y agoSketchy Internet behavior from Nigeria? Astonishing.
- robk 13y agoKiribati is about $1500 year (though fluctuates on exchange rate and registrar)
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- blumentopf 13y agoRelated: Counterexamples of good ccTLDs: https://gun.io/blog/secure-your-domain-where-is-safe-to-register-a-domain-name/ https://gun.io/blog/secure-your-domain-where-is-safe-to-regi...
- HNaTTY 13y agoTwo years later, they might want to reconsider the .is TLD. It's about $50/year and open to international folks, however they do have some unique NS requirements[1]. [1] http://www.isnic.is/en/domain/req http://www.isnic.is/en/domain/req
- jmnicolas 13y agoWell Nigeria is a pretty dangerous country, I guess it's "normal" that it is in cyberspace too.
- kehers 13y agoThat's a wrong and bogus thing to say.
- jdimov 13y agoWhy?
- OoTheNigerian 13y agoYou do not make blatant negative statements about a country without backing it up. That's why.
- forgottenpass 13y agoYou need a source that Nigeria is a dangerous country? I didn't think this was a contentious claim, but for an easy go-to lets use the US State Department's travel warnings. http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/country/nigeria.html http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/country/ni... http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/alertswarnings/nigeria-travel-warning.html http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/alertswarn... NIRA is an org in a developing nation full of violence. The idea of conducting a business transaction with them over the internet from another country and expecting everything to be on the up and up is such privileged nonsense I've broken my personal embargo on using that word.
- OoTheNigerian 13y agoIf you read further, you would see that it is the North Eastern part of Nigeria that has a violence issue. http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/alertswarnings/nigeria-travel-warning.html http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/alertswarn... Chicago has a lot of violence. I would not go a day say America is a dangerous nation. It fits the stereotype you crave for. Congratulations.
- gesman 13y agoActually .ki is the most (made stupidly) expensive tld: $1,000 - $1,400/yr
- OoTheNigerian 13y agoEmbarrassing stuff. It is sad that only negative/stereotypical stories from Nigeria seem to make it to the front page of HN. As you see on the comment in the thread, Nigerians are against this behavior. I had 2 domains taken from me too ironically one was takeaway.com.ng. I believe that there a procedures for this to be sorted out ICANN I believe is the arbiter of these types of issues. I would encourage the victim to follow such process. Perhaps someone here can suggest how such cases can/have been dealt with. I'd like to stress again that this is a rogue incident and not normal like a few of the stereotypical comments below will want to make you believe.
- unreal37 13y agoIt's happened to you too... Not really a rogue incident if it's common.
- OoTheNigerian 13y agoYes. In 2009. I have bought a large number since then without any issues. I believe there is a rogue employee there. Did not have the energy to pursue it. What I'm saying is that it is not an official policy. Lack of governance and follow up like the guy who is the subject of this thread.
- Pxtl 13y agoI think ICANN generally washes their hands of national TLDs - the whole point of national TLDs is to let countries manage them on their own. Presumably that means the Nigerian government is free to run .ng however they see fit, even if it means letting this extortionist agency milk their users.
- efeamadasun 13y agoHaha "takeaway.com.ng"... it seems like you were tempting fate :)
- pawelkomarnicki 13y agoGuys, it's Nigeria, what did you expect from a country that punishes being gay with imprisonment?
- cubancigar11 13y agoOff-topic much?
- omni_ 13y agoKind of relevant: the new TLD '.rich' is more expensive- $1,769.61 on Gandi. This is not a CCTLD, though.
- hexapode 13y agoHe buy nigeria.ng and is surprise it was taken away... How did he even things it was right he get it in the first place? Domain squatter hurt the web and for once one get hurt back.
- nnnn 13y agoThis guy is a domain squatter, maybe its just payback.. in some ways been ripping off other people.
- DomainRobbing 13y agothere is some voice says that .ng is not the most expensive cctld,because there are some cctld even higher than it. but do you know that .ng belongs to nigeria,a country of over 170 million people, only 26,000 domain names were registered with NiRA. do you know south africa,a country of 50 million people, but nearly 1,000,000 domains registered with .za registry. compare with other cctld such as .de/.co.uk/.co.za...which should have more local registered,.ng is the most expensive cctld. http://www.DomainRobbing.com http://www.DomainRobbing.com (DomainRobbi.ng,No appeal, no compensation?!) visit the link for more details.