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NFL executive thanks KC for hosting Draft, says attendance slightly exceeded projection

During ABC’s coverage of the 2023 NFL Draft at Union Station, ESPN’s Rece Davis marveled at the turnout in Kansas City on Friday night.

“What a scene,” Davis said. “What a red carpet Kansas City has rolled out.”

Rich Eisen of the NFL Network also took note of the huge turnout as a camera showed the “mass of humanity.”

Another ESPN broadcaster said at one point he couldn’t hear himself think because Chiefs fans were so loud.

On the first day of the draft, the North Lawn of the National WWI Museum and Memorial reached capacity of 60,000.

That was merely the start of a big weekend of fans for the draft. Brian McCarthy, Vice President of Communications for the NFL, said the NFL Draft in Kansas City drew 312,000 fans.

McCarthy shared that number in a Twitter message in which he…


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Nigeria: Domain Name Registration, Renewal Pick Up Slightly From 178,079 in January 2022 to 178,755 in February 2022

The latest figures released by the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), the organisation in charge of managing Nigeria’s country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), which is the .ng domain name for Nigeria, showed an improvement in the registration, renewal and restoration.

The figures, which THISDAY obtained from the official website of NiRA, showed a slight increase in Nigeria’s domain name registration, renewal and restoration from 178,079 in January 2022 to 178,755 in February 2022.

THISDAY had last month, exclusively reported a drop in .ng domain name registration and renewal, which NiRA attributed to the adverse effect of COVID-19 that paralysed businesses 2021.

According to NiRA: “In 2020, Nigeria experienced an increase in the number of registration for country…


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