Nairaland

Nairaland is an online community created by Seun Osewa in March 2005. It is targeted at Nigerians.[2]

Nairaland
Type of site
Forum
Available inEnglish
OwnerSeun Osewa
Created bySeun Osewa
URLNairaland.com
Alexa rank 788 (May 2020)[1]
CommercialYes
RegistrationYes
LaunchedMarch 2005
Current statusOnline

Rankings

Ranked number 790 in global internet traffic and engagement in late April 2020, Nairaland.com is the sixth most visited website in Nigeria, according to Alexa.com.[3][4] It is the second most visited local (indigenous) website in Nigeria, only next to bet9ja.com, as of April 2020, according to the recent listing by IABC Africa.[5] It currently has over 2.4 million registered users with over 5.5million topics created to date, this statistic suggests that a maximum 3% of Nigerian Internet users are registered on Nairaland compared to Facebook's 11 million Nigerian users which corresponds to approximately 20% of the Internet population.[6] Registration is only necessary for posting.

2014 down period

Following a successful hacking attempt, Nairaland went offline briefly on the 22 June 2014.[7] The hackers were able to get access to the website's host server and backup, and maliciously deleted all its content. Three days later, it was back online after some data had been recovered from a remote backup.[8] However, data from 10 January 2014 through the date of the attack was unrecovered. A good number of people lost their membership and had to re-register on the forum.

References
  1. "nairaland.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  2. "30 Under 30: Africa's Best Young Entrepreneurs". Forbes. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
  3. Obi, Gospel O. (May 2, 2020). "Top 20 Local Websites in Nigeria in 2020". www.iabcafrica.com. IABC Africa. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  4. "Top sites in Nigeria", Alexa Page Rank, 23 April 2020, retrieved 26 April 2020
  5. Obi, Gospel O. (May 2, 2020). "Top 20 Local Websites in Nigeria in 2020". www.iabcafrica.com. IABC Africa. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  6. CP Africa. "Over 11 million Nigerians on Facebook; becomes Facebook's largest user base in Sub Saharan Africa". Retrieved 31 January 2014.
  7. Nigerian News, Portal. "Nairaland down since Sunday, May not be Up soon". Nigeriannewsportal.com. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
  8. "Nairaland status monitoring". Retrieved 2014-07-03.


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