{"id":55,"date":"2026-09-02T16:11:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tkwebhosts.com\/blog\/how-to-become-a-ng-domain-registrar\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T10:18:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T10:18:33","slug":"how-to-become-a-ng-domain-registrar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tkwebhosts.com\/blog\/how-to-become-a-ng-domain-registrar\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Become a .NG Domain Registrar \u2014 NiRA Accreditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-byline\">By the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tkwebhosts.com\/about\">TK WebHosts Web Team<\/a> \u00b7 Last reviewed 2 September 2026<\/p>\n<p>Most articles answering this question summarise the same public PDF: three tests, a six-month window, and little else. That summary is accurate as policy and misleading as practice. The process a 2026 applicant actually meets differs from the published document in one significant respect, and an applicant who prepares for the document rather than the process loses time they do not have.<\/p>\n<p>What follows is the operational detail: who qualifies, the two ways an application stalls, how the six-month provisional window really behaves, what the registry requires of your staff, what it costs, the infrastructure that must exist before award, and what accreditation commits you to afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Fair warning before you spend a quarter on it: <strong>almost nobody who asks this question needs to do it.<\/strong> If your goal is to sell domains to your customers, reselling through an accredited registrar gets you there in an afternoon with none of the ongoing obligation. Accreditation is worth it if you want registry-direct pricing, control of the registrant relationship, and the standing that comes with being the registrar of record. Those are real advantages, but they are bought with operational commitment, not a signup fee. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tkwebhosts.com\/blog\/top-ng-domain-registrars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comparison of accredited .ng registrars<\/a> is the better starting point if you are still deciding which side of that line you want to be on.<\/p>\n<h2>The four terms<\/h2>\n<p>Four words carry most of the meaning in this article, and they are used precisely throughout.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ccTLD<\/strong> \u2014 a country-code top-level domain: the two-letter extension assigned to a country or territory, such as <code>.uk<\/code> for the United Kingdom, <code>.za<\/code> for South Africa, <code>.ke<\/code> for Kenya, <code>.gh<\/code> for Ghana or <code>.de<\/code> for Germany. <code>.ng<\/code> is Nigeria&#8217;s. Unlike generic extensions such as <code>.com<\/code> and <code>.org<\/code>, each ccTLD is administered nationally, under its own registry&#8217;s rules.<\/li>\n<li><strong>NiRA<\/strong> \u2014 the Nigeria Internet Registration Association, the registry that operates the <code>.ng<\/code> namespace, sets registration policy and accredits registrars. It does not sell domains to the public.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Registrar<\/strong> \u2014 an organisation accredited by the registry to provide domain registration services. It holds a direct contract with the registry and is the <strong>registrar of record<\/strong> for the domains it registers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Registrant<\/strong> \u2014 the person or organisation that holds the domain name. Note the distinction the policy draws: someone seeking to register a name is an <em>applicant<\/em>, and becomes the <em>registrant<\/em> once the registration is made.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In short: the registry sets the rules, registrars are licensed to apply them, and registrants hold the names.<\/p>\n<h2>Who is allowed to apply<\/h2>\n<p>The qualification bar is set out in the registry&#8217;s Registrars Accreditation Policy, and it is more about operational substance than paperwork. An applicant must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>be a <strong>legally incorporated entity<\/strong> \u2014 under Nigerian law, or under the law of the country it operates from. Foreign registrars can and do hold .ng accreditation.<\/li>\n<li>be a <strong>registered member of the registry<\/strong> before applying. Membership is a separate, prior step, and it catches people out.<\/li>\n<li>have <strong>no director, partner or controlling shareholder<\/strong> convicted of a dishonesty offence. This disqualifies the whole organisation, not just the individual.<\/li>\n<li>demonstrate <strong>adequate knowledge of the DNS<\/strong> and of the registry&#8217;s full policy corpus \u2014 which is what the examination later tests.<\/li>\n<li>be capable of <strong>electronic interaction<\/strong> with both registrants and registry systems.<\/li>\n<li><strong>display the Registrant Agreement<\/strong> on its own website. This is a prerequisite, not a post-accreditation task, and it is one of the things a regulatory review looks at.<\/li>\n<li>hold an <strong>adequate network security policy<\/strong> and an <strong>online payment platform<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>be able to handle enquiries promptly, authenticate registrant identity, issue renewal notices and maintain backups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read that list as a description of a functioning hosting or domain business rather than a checklist to satisfy. The registry is asking whether registrant data and registrant renewals are safe in your hands, because after accreditation your mistakes land on them.<\/p>\n<h2>The application, and the two ways it stalls<\/h2>\n<p>Applications are made through the registry&#8217;s accreditation portal at <a href=\"https:\/\/nira.org.ng\/accreditation\/register\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nira.org.ng\/accreditation\/register<\/a>, which is where you create the account the whole process runs through. The accreditation package \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/nira.org.ng\/pdf\/NiRA-Registrars-Accreditation-Policy-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Registrars Accreditation Policy<\/a>, the application form and the registrar agreement \u2014 comes from the registry&#8217;s own site. The application goes back with supporting documentation, the <strong>signed registrar agreement<\/strong> and the applicable fees. Questions at any stage go to the Secretariat at <a href=\"mailto:accreditation@nira.org.ng\">accreditation@nira.org.ng<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two rules do most of the damage here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First: an incomplete application is not processed, it is parked.<\/strong> An application counts as incomplete if documents are missing, if anything in it is misleading or inaccurate, if it is defective in any way, or if the signed agreement and fees are not both attached. The registry notifies you, and from that point you have <strong>90 days<\/strong> to correct and resubmit. Miss the 90 days and the application is deemed abandoned \u2014 you start over from a blank form.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second: accuracy is a permanent obligation, not a submission-day one.<\/strong> Inaccurate information in the application is grounds for rejection now and for suspension later. The registrar agreement carries the same requirement forward: everything you tell the registry must be true, accurate and not misleading, indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>The documentation set in practice runs to company registration, a company profile, tax identification evidence, a bank reference, the signed registrar agreement and the application fee receipt. The bank reference is the one to start early \u2014 banks typically want an established relationship of some months before they will issue one, and that lead time can easily exceed the provisional window you are about to enter. Build it before you apply, not after.<\/p>\n<h2>Provisional accreditation: a six-month clock<\/h2>\n<p>Approval does not make you a registrar. It makes you a <strong>provisionally accredited applicant<\/strong>, and it starts a hard six-month countdown.<\/p>\n<p>Two things matter enormously during this period, and both are easy to get wrong:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>You must not hold yourself out as an accredited registrar,<\/strong> and you must not provide domain registration services, until full accreditation completes and the registrar agreement is fully executed. Announcing early is an accreditation-stage offence, not a marketing decision.<\/li>\n<li><strong>All assessment must conclude within the six months.<\/strong> If the registry is not satisfied by the end of it, provisional accreditation simply lapses. There is no automatic extension.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The clock runs on calendar time, not on your effort. Every week spent waiting on a bank letter or an unanswered email is a week off the same six months.<\/p>\n<h2>The tests \u2014 policy versus 2026 practice<\/h2>\n<p>Here is the divergence worth knowing about, and the reason a summary of the PDF will mislead you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What the policy specifies:<\/strong> three separate tests, taken on the applicant&#8217;s request \u2014 an <strong>Interface Test<\/strong> (technical proficiency driving the registry system), a <strong>Policy Test<\/strong> (applying the policy corpus to real registration decisions) and a <strong>Regulatory Test<\/strong> (compliance with the registrar agreement, including a review of your website). The registry undertakes to respond and conduct tests within <strong>7 days<\/strong> of you notifying it that you are ready. Fall short on any of them and you may re-sit at a fee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What the 2026 intake actually met:<\/strong> a consolidated <strong>Accreditation Training and Certification Examination<\/strong>, delivered through the registry&#8217;s own online academy, followed by a live virtual session for the quarter&#8217;s applicants covering the final stages. The examination is a single sitting \u2014 <strong>fifty questions in a sixty-minute window<\/strong> \u2014 and it is a genuine test rather than a formality. Its scope spans the full policy corpus and the technical layer beneath it: the domain lifecycle and its recovery deadlines, transfers and authorisation codes, the dispute-resolution mechanism, the fee and complaints policies, Nigerian data-protection obligations, the naming and eligibility rules for open and closed second-level domains, the specific requirements around government-sector registrations, and DNS and registry-protocol fundamentals.<\/p>\n<p>The questions and answer key are not reproduced here \u2014 they are the registry&#8217;s live assessment material, and circulating them would undermine the standard the accreditation exists to set.<\/p>\n<h3>Who sits it: the two-delegate requirement<\/h3>\n<p>This is the part most applicants underestimate, because it is a staffing requirement rather than a paperwork one.<\/p>\n<p>The registry requires <strong>two nominated delegates<\/strong>, and they must cover two distinct roles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a <strong>Technical Representative<\/strong> \u2014 the person who will operate the registry interface, manage EPP connectivity and handle the technical side of registrations; and<\/li>\n<li>an <strong>Administrative\/Billing Representative<\/strong> \u2014 the person responsible for account, billing and registrant-administration matters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both are nominated by name and email at the point the training slot is arranged, and both are expected to attend the training. <strong>As of 2026, at least one of the two delegates must pass the certification examination for the registrar to be certified.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three practical consequences follow. Nominate people who will still hold those roles in six months, because the delegates are recorded against the registrar. Prepare both rather than designating one as the &#8220;real&#8221; candidate \u2014 a single point of failure in a time-boxed window is an avoidable risk when re-sits cost both fees and calendar. And treat the split as a genuine division of labour: the examination spans both registry mechanics and policy and billing administration, so a pair who each know their own half cover the paper better than one generalist sitting alone.<\/p>\n<p>The preparation itself is simpler than a cram plan: <strong>the examination tests the published policies, and the published policies are free.<\/strong> Read them properly \u2014 the actual documents, not summaries of them. A third-party summary will not carry the exact number, the exact deadline or the exact signatory, and those are precisely the questions that catch people.<\/p>\n<p>The process also rewards responsiveness. Applicant communication is visibly tracked through the accreditation stages, and quarterly cohorts move at the pace of the applicants in them. Answering within a day is not politeness here; it is throughput.<\/p>\n<h2>What it costs<\/h2>\n<p>The registry runs <strong>two pricing tracks<\/strong> \u2014 one for Nigerian applicants and one for foreign applicants \u2014 and the distinction is not merely currency. Figures below are those published in the registry&#8217;s applicant pack. Note that the registry&#8217;s published <a href=\"https:\/\/nira.org.ng\/pdf\/NiRA-Fee-Policy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fee Policy<\/a> deliberately does <strong>not<\/strong> list accreditation fees \u2014 it directs prospective registrars to the Secretariat instead \u2014 so confirm current amounts by email to <a href=\"mailto:accreditation@nira.org.ng\">accreditation@nira.org.ng<\/a> before you budget.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-wrap\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Stage<\/th>\n<th>Nigerian applicants<\/th>\n<th>Foreign applicants<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Application fee (non-refundable, submitted with the form)<\/td>\n<td><strong>\u20a650,000<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>US$100<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Corporate membership<\/td>\n<td><strong>\u20a610,000<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Not applicable<\/strong> \u2014 the membership fee applies to Nigerian applicants only<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Certification fee (after provisional accreditation; covers training and grant of full accreditation)<\/td>\n<td><strong>\u20a650,000<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>\u20a650,000<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Minimum registry deposit (before you can register domains)<\/td>\n<td><strong>\u20a650,000<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>\u20a650,000<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Annual re-certification<\/strong> (every year you remain accredited)<\/td>\n<td><strong>\u20a650,000\/yr<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>\u20a650,000\/yr<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Four things about that table decide your real budget.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Only the application fee is genuinely dual-track.<\/strong> Foreign applicants pay US$100 against the Nigerian \u20a650,000 \u2014 at prevailing rates, materially less. The certification fee, the deposit and the annual re-certification are quoted in naira for everyone, so a foreign registrar carries naira-denominated costs from provisional accreditation onward regardless of where it banks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Foreign applicants pay on the CBN rate and absorb the transfer charges.<\/strong> Conversion is at the Central Bank of Nigeria rate rather than a commercial one, and any bank charges arising on the transfer fall to the applicant, not the registry. The registry maintains both naira accounts and a dedicated USD account with SWIFT details, so paying from abroad is routine \u2014 but budget the spread and the wire fees rather than the headline figure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The deposit is not a fee.<\/strong> It is your own working balance, held at the registry, that registrations draw down against. Budget it as float, and fund it above the minimum if you expect volume from day one \u2014 a registrar that runs its registry balance to zero cannot register or renew anything until it tops up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The annual re-certification fee is the one applicants miss.<\/strong> Accreditation is not a one-off purchase: \u20a650,000 falls due every year the company remains an accredited registrar. Any business case built on the joining costs alone is wrong from year two onward, and it should be modelled against realistic registration volume rather than hoped-for volume.<\/p>\n<p>Re-sits, if a delegate fails the certification, carry their own fee on top.<\/p>\n<h2>The technical build<\/h2>\n<p>Accreditation is not granted against a business plan alone; there is infrastructure you need in place.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nameservers.<\/strong> The registry expects a minimum of three, running on your own domain \u2014 <code>ns1.example.com<\/code>, <code>ns2.example.com<\/code>, <code>ns3.example.com<\/code>, substituting your own domain for <code>example.com<\/code>. Delegating to a third-party DNS service that provides two will not satisfy the requirement, and this is a common gap for applicants who have never run their own DNS. Each nameserver is registered at the registry as a host object with its own glue record, so the addresses need to be stable ones you control, not a provider&#8217;s shared hostnames that could change beneath you.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Registry connectivity.<\/strong> The .ng registry runs on the CoCCA platform, and registrars connect over <strong>EPP<\/strong> \u2014 the Extensible Provisioning Protocol, the standard registry-registrar interface. Access is IP-restricted, so your connecting server addresses are whitelisted explicitly.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A registrar system.<\/strong> WHMCS and the registry&#8217;s own portal are both recognised routes. If you use WHMCS, there is a registry module to install and enable \u2014 connectivity working in test is not the same as the module being switched on in production, and both need confirming.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Credential hygiene.<\/strong> Registry credentials are issued to you once. Rotate them on receipt as a matter of course.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None of this is exotic for an established host. All of it takes longer than you think when it is competing with the six-month clock.<\/p>\n<h2>After accreditation: what you have signed up to<\/h2>\n<p>Full accreditation is awarded once assessment is passed; the registry issues the certification debit note and a fully executed copy of the registrar agreement follows. The obligations then become continuous rather than one-off:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>keep the <strong>Registrant Agreement displayed<\/strong> on your site<\/li>\n<li><strong>notify registrants of renewals<\/strong> in good time \u2014 a registrant who loses a domain to an expiry they were never warned about is a complaint against you, not against them<\/li>\n<li><strong>authenticate registrant information<\/strong> before acting on changes<\/li>\n<li><strong>hold registrant data securely<\/strong> and lawfully, under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023<\/li>\n<li><strong>respond promptly<\/strong> to registrant and registry enquiries alike<\/li>\n<li><strong>maintain backups<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the one that catches new registrars: the domain lifecycle deadlines are now yours to manage on your customers&#8217; behalf. A .ng domain that expires is recoverable for a defined window and then it is not \u2014 a registrar who treats the recovery calendar casually will eventually have an irreversible conversation with a customer.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n<h3>How long does .ng registrar accreditation take?<\/h3>\n<p>Provisional accreditation runs for a maximum of six months, and all assessment must conclude inside it. In practice the pace is set by the quarterly training and certification cycle, by how quickly you supply documentation, and by how fast you reply. Applicants who treat it as a background task tend to run out of window.<\/p>\n<h3>How much does it cost to become a .ng registrar?<\/h3>\n<p>Nigerian applicants pay a \u20a650,000 application fee plus \u20a610,000 corporate membership; foreign applicants pay US$100 as the application fee and no membership fee. Both then pay a \u20a650,000 certification fee and place a \u20a650,000 minimum registry deposit, followed by \u20a650,000 annually as a re-certification fee. The deposit is not a cost \u2014 it is your own balance that registrations draw against. Confirm current figures with the registry Secretariat.<\/p>\n<h3>Is it cheaper for a foreign company to become a .ng registrar?<\/h3>\n<p>Only at the application stage. Foreign applicants pay US$100 rather than \u20a650,000 and are not charged the corporate membership fee. Everything after that \u2014 certification, the registry deposit and the annual re-certification fee \u2014 is quoted in naira for all registrars, converted at the Central Bank of Nigeria rate, with any transfer charges borne by the applicant.<\/p>\n<h3>Can a company outside Nigeria become a .ng registrar?<\/h3>\n<p>Yes. The requirement is to be a legally incorporated entity under the laws of Nigeria or of the country where you operate. Several accredited .ng registrars are based outside Nigeria.<\/p>\n<h3>Is there an exam to become a .ng registrar?<\/h3>\n<p>Yes. The accreditation policy specifies interface, policy and regulatory testing; the 2026 intake sat a consolidated certification examination of fifty questions in sixty minutes, covering the full policy corpus alongside DNS and registry-protocol fundamentals. It is a real examination, and re-sits carry a fee.<\/p>\n<h3>How many people from my company need to sit the .ng certification?<\/h3>\n<p>Two delegates must be nominated \u2014 one Technical Representative and one Administrative\/Billing Representative \u2014 and both are expected to attend the training. As of 2026, at least one of the two must pass the certification examination for the registrar to be certified. Preparing both is the safer approach, since a re-sit costs both a fee and time out of the six-month provisional window.<\/p>\n<h3>What happens if I miss the six-month provisional window?<\/h3>\n<p>Provisional accreditation lapses and full accreditation is not granted. There is no automatic extension, and a fresh application means starting the process again.<\/p>\n<h3>Do I need to be an accredited registrar to sell .ng domains?<\/h3>\n<p>No \u2014 and most businesses should not be. Reselling through an accredited registrar lets you offer .ng domains immediately with none of the accreditation obligations. Accreditation is worth pursuing when you want registry-direct pricing and to be the registrar of record yourself.<\/p>\n<h2>Is it worth it?<\/h2>\n<p>Accreditation earns its cost where the .ng namespace is a service line in its own right rather than an add-on. Being the registrar of record changes what can be offered around it: pricing set directly rather than inherited, support owned rather than escalated, and lifecycle decisions that do not route through another company&#8217;s queue.<\/p>\n<p>For most businesses asking the question, the answer is no \u2014 and reselling is not the lesser option, it is the correct one. The test is simple: if you would not want to be answerable for a registrant&#8217;s expired domain at three in the afternoon on the last recoverable day, you want an accredited registrar between you and the registry.<\/p>\n<p>If you are here because you want a .ng domain rather than an accreditation, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tkwebhosts.com\/ng\/tld\/ng-domain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.ng domain page<\/a> shows live availability and flat naira pricing, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tkwebhosts.com\/ng\/domains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigeria domain services<\/a> covers the rest.<\/p>\n<h2>Sources and further reading<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nira.org.ng\/accreditation\/register\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Registrar accreditation portal<\/a> \u2014 where an application is created and tracked<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nira.org.ng\/pdf\/NiRA-Registrars-Accreditation-Policy-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NiRA Registrars Accreditation Policy (PDF)<\/a> \u2014 Version 2.0, February 2018; the qualification criteria, the 90-day and six-month rules and the three-test structure referenced throughout<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nira.org.ng\/pdf\/NiRA-Fee-Policy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NiRA Fee Policy (PDF)<\/a> \u2014 the registry&#8217;s published fee position; note it directs accreditation-fee enquiries to the Secretariat rather than listing them<\/li>\n<li><strong>Accreditation Secretariat:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:accreditation@nira.org.ng\">accreditation@nira.org.ng<\/a> \u2014 fee details, application questions and training dates<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nira.org.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA)<\/a> \u2014 the full policy corpus<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tkwebhosts.com\/blog\/top-ng-domain-registrars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Top .NG domain registrars (accredited) \u2014 TK WebHosts Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tkwebhosts.com\/ng\/tld\/ng-domain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.NG domain registration \u2014 TK WebHosts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n  \"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n  \"@graph\": [\n    {\n      \"@type\": \"FAQPage\",\n      \"mainEntity\": [\n        {\n          \"@type\": \"Question\",\n          \"name\": \"How long does .ng registrar accreditation take?\",\n          \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Provisional accreditation runs for a maximum of six months, and all assessment must conclude inside it. 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