paypal is the biggest obstacle faces arabic idners

[g]

the blog is moved to a new location

http://www.xn--mgb5a8an.com/article12.htm
I wish to write articles and provides all of you with needed information and hear your idn experiences as usual

I am back this time with an article supposed to had been posted at May

in brief ... I said that not a single arabic country is approved by paypal and we wish to hear better news from google or gbuy

باي بال اكبر عائق امام التجارة الالكترونية للافراد العرب
اقرأ التفاصيل في البلوجر نطاق
http://www.xn--mgb5a8an.com/article12.htm

you will also find all the old articles in the articles section

Regards

[domainstosell]

g,

It may just be my computer, but the encoding on the blog may be incorrect, as it is not coming out as Arabic, but as gibberish symbols...

[alex]

Originally Posted by domainstosell

It may just be my computer, but the encoding on the blog may be incorrect, as it is not coming out as Arabic, but as gibberish symbols...

I see the header tag is set to

<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1'>

[domainstosell]

Originally Posted by alex

I see the header tag is set to

<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1'>

Ah, there's the issue...

[mulligan]

Originally Posted by domainstosell

Ah, there's the issue...

To cover this if I use the tag:

<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html;charset=uft-8'>

Will this tag ensure all/most? languages will display correctly?

[domainstosell]

Originally Posted by mulligan

To cover this if I use the tag:

<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html;charset=uft-8'>

Will this tag ensure all/most? languages will display correctly?

I'm pretty sure that will do it, however, on my site I was having problems with words with accents and umlauts (i.e. satellitetélévision.com, urlaubtürkei.com). They weren't re-encoding correctly. But if you go to http://pinyin.info/tools/converter/c...ninumbers.html, this is a tool to convert words to Unicode, so they will show up correctly..., just cut and paste the Unicode. I only had to do this with French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, etc. Not Cryllic or script languages.

[Drewbert]

Originally Posted by mulligan

To cover this if I use the tag:

<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html;charset=uft-8'>

Will this tag ensure all/most? languages will display correctly?

No. but charset=utf-8 might.

[domainstosell]

Originally Posted by Drewbert

No. but charset=utf-8 might.

Nice catch!

[g]

thanks domainstosell

I will try to fix it

[blastfromthepast]

This is a very bad move. Since Olney is against syndication of RSS feeds, this means that your blog is now inaccessible.

[touchring]

Originally Posted by g

the blog is moved to a new location provided by dnforum

http://www.dnforum.com/blogs/?w=arabicidns
in brief ... I said that not a single arabic country is approved by paypal and we wish to hear better news from google or gbuy
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Regards

For big amts, e.g. $xxxx, you can use escrow.com which does wire transfer. For small amts, you can ask someone on this forum to help you receive using paypal, and then use the money for topping up the credit for a DS account, etc.

[g]

Originally Posted by touchring

For big amts, e.g. $xxxx, you can use escrow.com which does wire transfer. For small amts, you can ask someone on this forum to help you receive using paypal, and then use the money for topping up the credit for a DS account, etc.

You won't imagine how horrible is the net business without paypal unless you lose it .

it is not only buying and selling idns but even when you think of development

adsense is using paypal and the customers want only paypal

also wire transfer cost a lot especially to international banks

I discussed that in detail in the article but it seems paypal is not only the biggest problem faces idners but also many technical errors related to unicode.

I cann't think of arabic website that earns alot of money

yes many arabic websites are popular but how much they earn online

and why they are not earning much from arabic customers

all ways leads to paypal at the end

I am still waiting for juicy offer for my IDNs that worth the wire transfer

Originally Posted by blastfromthepast

This is a very bad move. Since Olney is against syndication of RSS feeds, this means that your blog is now inaccessible.

sorry, I don't understand

my blog is accessible but unreadable due to unicode errors right?

[abdussamad]

Google Adsense delivers money by cheques not paypal.

[g]

Originally Posted by abdussamad

Google Adsense delivers money by cheques not paypal.

Hi abdussamad,

How do you sell your domains if you are not going to develop them? and how do you receives the money especially if you are selling names for 50$ or so?

there are at least 1200 arabic user agrees with me
http://www.swalif.net/softs/showthread.php?t=169082

this petition and comments shows you how many arab users need paypal

by the way I am not a member of swalif and I didn't do the petition.

Regards

[touchring]

I'm sure there are ways, how does KuwaitNet receive small amounts?

[Wot]

I do not ,and will not, use paypal.

I solld in excess of 800 domain names last year, the majority through escrow.com

Smaller amounts, I get "buyer"to credit one of the registrar(s) I use.

Always need money for new regs or particularly renewals.

[g]

Originally Posted by touchring

I'm sure there are ways, how does KuwaitNet receive small amounts?

I don't know about kuwaitnet but some arab have relatives in USA or europe who make accounts for them .... or some other indirect ways that I am not aware of

Originally Posted by Wot

I do not ,and will not, use paypal.

I solld in excess of 800 domain names last year, the majority through escrow.com

Smaller amounts, I get "buyer"to credit one of the registrar(s) I use.

Always need money for new regs or particularly renewals.

Hi Wot,

The article I wrote says that money transfer to international banks is much expensive comparing to transfer to american banks which is sometimes free.

the arabic domainer has to wait for x,xxx$ offer to worth the costs and fees

I hope sawafi can do something about that because it will be a big arabic search engine who is going to sell ads to arab mainly.

[Wot]

Originally Posted by g

I don't know about kuwaitnet but some arab have relatives in USA or europe who make accounts for them .... or some other indirect ways that I am not aware of



Hi Wot,

The article I wrote says that money transfer to international banks is much expensive comparing to transfer to american banks which is sometimes free.

the arabic domainer has to wait for x,xxx$ offer to worth the costs and fees

I hope sawafi can do something about that because it will be a big arabic search engine who is going to sell ads to arab mainly.

Hi,

Escrow.com will also send a check/cheque - foc , usually arrives one week after completion of transaction.

I have a good relationship with a couple of banks here in Thailand and they give me credit pending clearance.

Try some of yours?

[g]

arab traders are still disappointed till now >>>
http://www.paypalalarab.com

I do not know if this site is trustable or not >>>> but I liked the idea because I used to think to make something similar

[bwhhisc]

Originally Posted by g

arab traders are still disappointed till now >>>
http://www.paypalalarab.com

I do not know if this site is trustable or not >>>> but I liked the idea because I used to think to make something similar

They picked an intersting name, looking for big trouble.