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جمعہ 29 اپریل 2005Friday, April 29, 2005

Urdu Domain Poll

We are thinking of getting a separate domain for all the Urdu-related stuff we are doing. This would include the following:

Help us decide on a domain name by voting in the poll below.

Poll
What domain name should we get for our Urdu site?
urduweb.org 24.0%
urdublogs.org 20.0%
urdudunya.org 18.0%
urdukainat.org 8.0%
jahan-numa.org 8.0%
bazmeurdu.org 8.0%
urdugalaxy.org 6.0%
urdusphere.org 6.0%
urdu-e-mualla.org 2.0%

Total votes: 50


 
 

If you don't like any of the choices available, feel free to suggest any others in the comments.

UPDATE: The poll would close on Friday, May 13.

Posted by Zack at April 29, 2005 11:31 AM in Internet , Urdu

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Comments

urduistan.org
urdunevis.org
urduqalam.org
urdujalal.org

Posted by: kianoush (116 comments) at April 29, 2005 9:23 PM

urdunigar.org (i.e. urdu writer)

Posted by: kianoush (116 comments) at April 29, 2005 9:28 PM

Please cross these names of the list: urdukainat.org, urdublogs.org, urdusphere.org, urdu-e-mualla.org - they are just not right. This one is the worst: urdugalaxy.org.

I voted for urduweb, as I that is the easiest to remember/type - urdudunya is also nice but there is a chance for misspelling it etc. Since the domain name will have to be in english - don’t use roman urdu as everyone has their own different spellings in that.

Posted by: KO (39 comments) at April 30, 2005 12:22 AM

I voted for Urdudunya and it said that I had already voted. It may have happened because I had seen the results first.

Posted by: Ajmal (312 comments) at April 30, 2005 5:45 AM

I voted for urdugalaxy.

Posted by: Asif (37 comments) at April 30, 2005 8:18 AM

“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

Posted by: Asma (46 comments) at April 30, 2005 2:33 PM

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.

Posted by: Nabeel (6 comments) at May 1, 2005 4:40 AM

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.

Posted by: Zack (1784 comments) at May 1, 2005 9:41 PM | PGP Sig

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.

Posted by: Nabeel (6 comments) at May 2, 2005 8:13 AM

urdudunya.org
urduweb.org

my vote

Posted by: Shoiab Safdar (17 comments) at May 3, 2005 11:06 AM

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.

Posted by: Danial (12 comments) at May 6, 2005 10:51 PM

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?

Posted by: Sunny (1 comments) at May 20, 2005 11:06 AM

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.

Posted by: Zack (1784 comments) at May 23, 2005 1:42 AM | PGP Sig

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

Posted by: Anonymous (1 comments) at July 17, 2008 7:42 AM

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