University of Hargeisa chooses to go under Federally administered domain

[Holac]

Somaliland:University of Hargeisa Goes DotSo of the Somalia Federal Government!

The Republic of Somaliland’s state-owned, state-run University of Hargeisa (UOH) goes under the official Somalia Federal Government domain DotSo (.so).

 

Permission for use of FGS domain was granted UOH by the Somalia National InformationCommission – SONIC – and the contact address is retained by it, with the technical email remaining under the official admin@sonic.gov.so (the gov standing for the Somalia Federal government).The University of Hargeisa has in the past used domains ending with DotCom or DotNet, maintaining its independence and identity as a Somaliland university.

 

Inexplicably, the UOH chooses to share the official Somalia domain .So with the University of Somalia (www.uniso.edu.so), Mogadishu University (www.mu.edu.so), SIMAD (www.simad.edu.so), Kismayu University (www.ku.edu.so), and all the rest of Somalia-owned universities.

 

Unlike the UOH, Puntland universities, which rightly fall under the Somalia Federal Government, choose to remain with their .Com and .net domains: PSU (Garowe): www.puntlandstateuniversity.com, East Africa University (Bossasso): www.easafricauniverrsity.net.

 

The University has been on the up-and-up since 2003 stepping on to an upward-inching path to excellence which led to the new leadership taking the reins following a sputtering period the university suffered.

 

Under the new administration that has taken over the university helm some three years ago, the university has made a number of changes most of which, hitherto, going the right direction. It, to cite but one example, joined African and international university associations to lend credence to its accreditations. It also stepped up its postgrad programs and gave a complementing facelift to its main campus.

 

Of late, a great deal of shady, little-known developments had been surfacing that none of which has been submitted to or approved by a hodge-podge university council that, itself, hardly comes together. An investigation into how many other deals has the UOH going with Mogadishu is, certainly, in order.

 

The current UOH leadership, in this latest development, crosses the education border over to an area that squarely lays them bare to criminal litigation and a possible indictment on high treason.

 

The Republic of Somaliland restored its 1960 independence in May 1991, following a thirty-year domination and untold of suffering in the union it joined with Somalia on 1 July 1960. Somaliland towns and cities were totally demolished, hundreds of thousands fled over to Ethiopian refuge centers and equal numbers died, were maimed or suffered irreparable traumas under the brutal Somalia-dominated, military regime of General Siyad Barre.

[Tallaabo]

Why dot SO (.So)  when dot jeeg (.Jeeg) was available? 

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Ahahaha. Why not dot.jeegadheere indeed. I have a cousin called jeegadheere, he can lend you the domain ending.

[maakhiri1]

 .jeegaan domain name registry  could have made a lot of sense!

[Saalax]

On 2/24/2018 at 12:27 PM, Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar said:

Ahahaha. Why not dot.jeegadheere indeed. I have a cousin called jeegadheere, he can lend you the domain ending.

 

 

 

kkkk meeshu wa riwayaad. 

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Somalia takes control of its Internet Country Code

Mogadishu (HOL) - The Somali government has retaken control of its internet Country Code Top-Level Domain ( ccTLD) first the time in decades.

The country's ccTLD wich is  Dot SO (.SO) had been controlled by a private company since the fall of Somali central government led by late Mohamed Siyad Barre.
 

Officials from both National Communications Authority and Cloud Registry company which provides innovative registry platform for the management and operation of TLDs have jointly signed an agreement on March 7th.

The handing over ceremony was attended by the Minister for Posts and Telecommunications, Sheikh Nur Mohamed and officials from the office of Auditor General. 

The Director of National Communications Authority, Abdi Sheikh Ahmed welcomed the move said the ccTLD and the country's calling 252 code are national assets. He expressed his thanks for all those who worked on repatriated the internet code.
 
In a separate ceremony, the director of Somali Network Information Centre (SONIC)  Abdiaziz Hussein Omar who resigned from the office has handed over office to the director of National Communications Authority, Abdi Sheikh Ahmed.

Xigasho

[Tallaabo]

3 hours ago, Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar said:

The country's ccTLD wich is  Dot SO (.SO) had been controlled by a private company since the fall of Somali central government led by late Mohamed Siyad Barre.

What a load of nonsense!! In 1991 the World Wide Web as we know it today did not even exist outside of the CERN facilities in Europe. 

[Tallaabo]

The government of Somaliland will block the Internet access of every public institution using the Koonfurian domain. They are given 30 days to change to a neutral domain. 

[Holac]

Universities everywhere covet the .edu domain extension and that is what separates them from other entities. To force existing universities to use .com or .net is behaving like a police state. 

UOH.EDU.SO is an awesome domain. 

[Tallaabo]

9 hours ago, Holac said:

Universities everywhere covet the .edu domain extension and that is what separates them from other entities. To force existing universities to use .com or .net is behaving like a police state. 

UOH.EDU.SO is an awesome domain. 

I am sure the domain (jaamacad-heblaayo.edu.so) will not make international students and academics rush to Somaliland's universities, so there is no need to use that domain. 

[maakhiri1]

Af SOOMAALIGII maxaa ku dhacay?