On the Nigerian site i can't find this info...

That might be your problem :)

http://www.intnet.ne
This is their site... And it is also not in english :(

Hi Inskin,

That site belongs to the national telecomms company for Niger. My French doesn't go beyond "Bonjour mon ami" so I can't help you there :)

I suggest you write to the webmaster of this site (http://www.geocities.com/jmayer_mac/niger.html) - his email link is at the bottom, and he seems to know a lot about the country.

Good luck :)

Actually, the contacts you want for domain registration are here:

http://www.iana.org/root-whois/ne.htm

Send them an email.

-t

Email from Niger: "to register a .ne domain you have to be in Niger." :(((

Originally posted by Inskin
Email from Niger: "to register a .ne domain you have to be in Niger." :(((
I guess that doesn't surprise me. This is the way that the ccTLDs were intended to be used int he first place :).

-t

hey i want a .ne domain anyone who is able to read french
want to register it for me i shall pay you and you can pay it
im not giving out my cc# tho i will pay via paypal.


contact me if anyone would be willing to help me out on this

marcd@ditol.com

So MarcD, do you have an address in Niger?

-t

that i dont

anyone here from nigeria ?

is it really icann illegall legal to register a .ne domain if i am not a resident or resident alien of nigeria ?

In this case it's a registry requirement. The risk you run by cheating is the future loss of the domain name.

-t

So, i haven't chances to have domain in ".ne" legally... Sad, but true... O'kay, so i'll go to search other domains for my site ;)

so basically any .org domain that is not a non profit is in violation also am i correct in saying that ?

Originally posted by MarcD
so basically any .org domain that is not a non profit is in violation also am i correct in saying that ?
No. The .org domains are under the control of Verisign, and are currently encompassed in the gTLD agreement, along with .com and .net. The original guidelines for registering these domains were only guidelines, and were never enforced as regulations.

There is a move to return .org to it's Organization roots, but existing domains will be grandfathered if this ever happens. Verisign is not in favor of this move, and the group that is pushing this with ICANN is not having all that much luck making it's point. The most recent estimate is that if anything happens here it will be in "about two years" so I wouldn't hold your breath.

The ccTLD, or Country Code Top Level Domains, are entirely under the control of the individual countries. .US domains are requiring that you pass the Nexus requirements for a United States presence. .CA are similar. Most ccTLDs require that you are a resident or have a presence in the country that their domain name represents. There are some that do not, such as .cc, or .tv, but most require it.

Each country get to make it's own rules here.

-t

Originally posted by MarcD
anyone here from nigeria ?
FYI - Niger and Nigeria are 2 different countries. "NE" is the cc for Niger, whereas Nigeria is "NG".