By Cyber Era NG Special Correspondent
In the latest study commissioned by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in collaboration with PowerSoft Africa, Nigeria moved up to second place in the Africa Domain Name Industry.
Similarly, African country code Top-level Domains report shows 4.33million registrations as at November 2023 and additional 1.4 million generic top level domain registrations from African entities.
Covering 54 countries in Africa, the ICANN report released by the Coalition for Digital Africa at ICANN80 in Kigali, Rwanda, shows that high Internet access costs continue to limit widespread usage, with the average African spending about 4 per cent of their monthly income on 1GB of data – twice the global affordability target.
Also, the projected average annual overall growth in the number of domain names across the continent is 12.4 per cent, suggesting significant opportunities for local providers in individual country.
- Editor’s Note: This is a developing story. Kindly watch this space.
