Nigeria’s pioneer, foremost and leading Internet company founded in 1996 to cater for Africa’s emerging markets, and is a leading communication infrastructure provider of IP networking services. Linkserve is backed by a management team with extensive experience in satellite communications, IP Applications , managed Services , Application Development, and Managed IT Projects which are applied in the development of effective solutions for its clients.

An Internet exchange point (IXP) is a physical infrastructure that allows several Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and network operators to exchange traffic between their networks, generally referred to as autonomous systems, by means of mutual peering agreements, which allow traffic to be exchanged at no cost.Serve as the central point for connecting Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) towards the development of National Research and Educational Network (NREN);Local hosting (of internet content) businesses will bring more revenue opportunities to ISPs, and facilitate rapid increase in local content creation and hosting at lower cost with the attendant local skills development, employment generation and entrepreneurship;Eventually the cost of Internet would be within the reach of the average person and then to the low-end markets at the remotest parts of rural Nigeria, thereby mitigating digital divide within the country.

NiRA is the registry for .ng Internet Domain Names and maintains the database of names registered in the .ng country code Top Level Domain. NiRA is an independent not-for-profit organization that manages the .ng country code Top Level Domain(ccTLD) name space in the public interest of Nigeria and global internet communities . NiRA is not a governing or regulatory body, but are mangers of the .ng national resource.