Comments on: Urdu Domain Poll

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:42:46 +0000

Latest version of Urdu Nigar (Unicode) is available at http://urdu.heliohost.org/urdunigarunicode/

By: Zack

Zack — Mon, 23 May 2005 05:42:15 +0000

Danial: urduweb it is.

Sunny: URLs are not parsed for styling.

The URL you suggested is neat, but already taken. At this point, supports for IRIs is not universal, so I would stay away from them. This may change in the near future.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Fri, 20 May 2005 15:06:57 +0000

I think http://اردو.com will be a great idea…..

Is it possible?

besides I tried putting the %% marks around the urdu in the url, but it was displaying it as it is.

maybe URL’s arew not parsed as urdu?

By: Danial

Danial — Sat, 07 May 2005 02:51:00 +0000

I agree with KO that most of these Domains are just not right. It is not about choosing something attractive. A domain name is like an identity of a website. We should also consider the keywords people would be using to search. We are not offering information about dunya, sphere, glob, etc. I don’t think that people looking for information about how to setup an Urdu website would search for Urdu Nigar, Urdu dunya or Bazmeurdu. They would most probably look for Urdu+Web, Urdu+unicode, Urdu+Editor, Urdu+Blog,etc.

We are offering advise on setting up an Urdu blog but I think that we are actually trying to make Urdu popular on the web. That is why we should use UrduWeb. Choosing a domain name is like chosing a brand name for your product, it should be catchy, easy to remember, accesible and above all it should describe the product itself.

By: Urdu Blogging اردو میں بلاگنگ

Urdu Blogging اردو میں بلاگنگ — Wed, 04 May 2005 02:47:00 +0000

Setting Up the New Urdu Site

While the voting goes on about the domain name, let us consider the tasks we need to do once the domain is available. The following sites need to be moved to the new domain: This blog, Urdu Blogging: We need…

By: Shoiab Safdar

Shoiab Safdar — Tue, 03 May 2005 15:06:27 +0000

urdudunya.org
urduweb.org

my vote

By: Nabeel

Nabeel — Mon, 02 May 2005 12:13:49 +0000

Zack: There is already a kind of a portal here which is based on Drupal or a modified version of it. The Urdu localization does not look good.

By: Zack

Zack — Mon, 02 May 2005 01:41:21 +0000

Kianoush: Thanks for the suggestions.

KO: I happen to like urdudunya. Thanks for your suggestions. urduweb is good and simple, but a bit too generic.

Dad: That shouldn’t have happened just because you saw the results. May be someone else at home had already voted?

Asma: I have just been too lazy about smilies. May be soon.

Nabeel: I haven’t seriously looked at anything yet, but we do need to do so soon. I’ll post about what we need to do on Urdu Blogging.

By: Nabeel

Nabeel — Sun, 01 May 2005 08:40:20 +0000

Zack: Have you already looked at any of the content-management systems. I have seen that Mambo is highly popular. I may actually download it and give it a try.

By: Asma

Asma — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 18:33:32 +0000

“urdugalaxy” seems better … i have voted … [and it won’t let me vote again]!!

urdu e mualla is the older version of urdu … the one having loads of persian words used commonly in times of ghalib … not the urdu written today!

[to the best of my knowledge!!!]

[by the way, why don’t u do anything to show smileys on ur blog:) just asking]

wassalam