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Originally Posted by Rubber Duck
I have done this by looking at the Titles and Urls from Google Searches. Trust me most of the action at the moment is Persian, but I think that will change.
The risk is that you only look at the traffic and decide that pure Urdu terms are not much good when they could be gems later.
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That’s what bothers me or is a little unsettling. I don’t have anything to go on other than a dictionary and a translator. Which I guess should be enough, but after 6 months I would like to have some kind of data, also I don’t feel like I can do anything with either my Persian or urdu terms. I knew the risks when I regged the Persian terms, but I feel like a moth drawn to flame.
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Originally Posted by abdussamad
I am new to IDN domains and I am wondering who your target audience for Urdu domains is? Which country do you think has the most potential for Urdu domains?
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I followed RD into Urdu from an earlier post which his post below touches on, I think he is on target. I know from speaking with individuals from northern India urdu seems to be spoken much more than it is written and as the Duck indicated mixed in with hindi. That probably helps to inflate the number of urdu speakers to 103 million
One point that RD provided in an earlier post was to use usOVT to see if the term is searched. That probably eliminates many true urdu terms and gives the best results for Persian/urdu terms. There are several good terms available, but they do have risks.
To answer your question, I am banking on Iran then Pakistan but mostly Iran and individuals who have migrated to other parts of the world. I also think urdu is a long term hold, probably longer than hindi JMO.
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Originally Posted by Rubber Duck
Urdu, is an interesting one. I started registering Urdu only to find that most of the Google results and traffic came from Iran. India in theory has the largest number of Urdu speakers but I am not sure about their Socio-economic status. Urdu is the official language in Pakistan, but it not what people generally speak. It is a fairly confusing situation. Some also argue that Urdu is not really a distinct language from Hindi, but clearly in the written form it is absolute distinct with its own script.
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abdussamad
what your feeling about google adsense in the arabic/persian world?
mod please move/delete my posts if I have migrated to far away from RD original post