.GOV.NG is a cctld (Country Code Top Level Domain) restricted for Government Organizations in Nigeria. It can only be registered by Government agencies, MDA's, Local Goverment, and Federal Government's in Nigeria.
You'll need to provide some documentation to establish that you're a regulated/legal Nigerian government organization in order to register a.gov.ng domain.
You must complete the following procedures in order to register a.gov.ng domain:
1) Find and register your domain name: Check to see if the gov.ng domain you wish to register is available, then order it. You can check availability here
2) Complete your order by paying for the domain name.
3) Meet all of the requirements and submit all of your documents:
Please take note that GOV.NG is a limited domain, and in order to activate it, you must provide us the required documentation.
a) Obtain a letter of authorization from the ministry or agency that is requesting the domain name.
b) Mention the domain's administrative and technical contact persons/names and addresses in the letter. The contact person should be a permanent ministry employee, not a tenured employee.
[Date]
To
Nigeria Internet Registration Association,
8, Funsho Williams Avenue, Iponri, Surulere,
Lagos, Nigeria.
Subject: Application for[Your fourth-level domain Name]domain registration
Dear Sir/Madam,
The Ministry of ABC wishes to apply for the domain name abc.gov.ng for our website and email. The authorizing personnels are:
a). The admin contact details are:
[Name, Email, Phone number and Designation]
b). The Technical contact details are:
[Name, Email, Phone number and Designation]
c). The nameservers are:
ns1.sternhost.net , ns2.sternhost.net
Warm regards.
Your faithfully,
[Signature by the permanent Secretary of the Ministry/Executive Secretary/Director-General in the case of Federal Government]
[Name of the Authorized Signatory]
[Post of the Signatory]
4) We will submit your documents for approval to the.NG Registry:
We'll send your registration to NIRA after you send us the documents (.NG domain Registry). The request is then sent to NITDA (National Information Technology Development Agency) for approval and verification.
The letter needs to be scanned and emailed to info@sternhost.com as an attachment in GIF, PNG, JPEG, JPG or PDF format. The domain application will be verified directly with the entity applying for the domain.
You can always contact us at support@sternhost.com if you have any questions about.gov.ng domain registration. All of your questions will be answered by our domain experts.
