5 reasons you should register a .com.ng domain

1)IF YOUR TARGET IS NIGERIA
if your products and services is perfectly aimed at Nigerians,then a suggestion to register your site as .com.ng is very good as it indicates a higher level of authenticity and seriousness but if your products and services extend beyond Nigeria,you could then opt for a .com.ng domain.

2)GET A HIGHER GOOGLE RANK
Why are we mentioning Google? Google is by far the leading search engine on the WWW (Internet) today. It is also the only major search engine that has a version for Nigeria.
Google Nigeria offers it's users
an option of searching Nigerian websites only. Apart from GeoIP location, Google's other means of determining Nigerian websites is
the .ng TLD. In a nutshell, Google will correctly determine your website as a Nigerian website, if you are using a .ng domain even if your website is hosted outside Nigeria, and does not use a Nigerian IP address. With this,you limit the amount of search results to Nigerian websites which gives you a better chance of getting found on Google.

3)TO IMPROVE NIGERIA'S ICT INFRASTRUCTURE
Are you a Nigerian citizen/
company/organization? You
should be proud to show your
Nigerian identity online too.
Other countries' domains like
Germany (.de), United Kingdom
(.co.uk), France (.fr), South Africa
(.co.za) amongst many others,
are very popular, because the
website owners in the respective
countries prefer their country's
domain suffix, to .com/.net/.org,
amongst other reasons. You too
can help develop Nigeria's
Information / Communications
Technology (ICT) infrastructure,
by registering .ng domains.
This is just a first step towards
development. With .ng being
popular, we can then agitate for
Nigerian websites to be hosted
in Nigeria. We can then develop
more Internet exchanges, and
keep Nigerian Internet traffic
local. Other countries have done
it, we can do it, and do it
better. :)

4)AVOID CYBER SQUATTING
You probably already own a very
valuable brand, that is widely
recognized in Nigeria? You
already have the .com form of
your domain name? You should
consider registering a .com.ng as
well. If you are not ready to
create a website for Nigeria, you
can re-direct traffic to from
your .com.ng to your .com
domain name.

5)INAVAILABILITY OF OTHER DOMAINS
This should be the last reason
why you would consider a .ng
domain. Your business name is
example for example?
example.com is taken? Why
bother about example-
something-somewhere.com?
Why not simply register
example.com.ng?
This way, you maintain a short
and easy to remember domain
name, while still targetting a
Nigerian audience, ranking well
on Google Nigeria, and helping
developing Nigeria's ICT
infrastructure.
Ready to register a .ng domain
source: David oluniyi Ajao www.davidajao.com