Asian Traffic on Hindi Domains and Yes a Click!

[abdussamad]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

I am pretty sure that you are wrong about the Urdu Langange Windows. Windows is available in all the important Indic Scripts. Microsofts Glossaries for Windows has been one of our major linguistic sources. Admittedly some of their translation reallly stink!

I have to say I am a little surprised. Living in Bradford which has a huge Pakistani Immigrant community, all our government departments and agencies are obliged to produce just about everything in Urdu as many have little or no English whatsoever.

Maybe your right about Urdu language windows. But I haven't seen any in Pakistan. As I said most users here use pirated software and that is only available in English.

[tee1]

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?

BTW Welcome to the forum

It may take a few years but history has shown that all users will eventually upgrade to IE7 (check the stats for previous versions of IE). Input from Pakistan is welcome. 75% speaking urdu in Pakistan sounds good to me. Check out the forum, the issue of IDNs over ASCII has been debated several times, most here are true believers in IDNs.

There are many gems left in Urdu.
Tim

[touchring]

Originally Posted by abdussamad

Pakistan is different from say Japan or China where English is rarely spoken. Pakistan is closer to India in this regard in that English is widely spoken by the demographic that uses computers. There are no Urdu language keyboards that I know of. They are not available in any computer shops and the few computerised govt. departments that exist use English language keyboards. And of course there is no Urdu language windows. In short all computing tasks are done in English and there is no govt. initiative to change that.

Do you mean even documents and emails sent between fellow Pakistanis are in English? If you need to generate banners, do you use English as well??

[abdussamad]

Originally Posted by touchring

Do you mean even documents and emails sent between fellow Pakistanis are in English? If you need to generate banners, do you use English as well??

Emails yes, documents depends on the subject I guess. I suggest you visit wiredpakistan.com or pakpassion.net . The latter is a cricket site and it's forums will give you a good idea of what I mean.

The potential for Urdu language domains is definitely there. But its a long term investment.

[touchring]

Originally Posted by abdussamad

Emails yes, documents depends on the subject I guess. I suggest you visit wiredpakistan.com or pakpassion.net . The latter is a cricket site and it's forums will give you a good idea of what I mean.

The potential for Urdu language domains is definitely there. But its a long term investment.

Yes, it's a long term investment, but the prime names worth the long term wait are already taken in the short term. Whether second tier names are worth the long term wait will depend very much on one's expectations.

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by touchring

Yes, it's a long term investment, but the prime names worth the long term wait are already taken in the short term. Whether second tier names are worth the long term wait will depend very much on one's expectations.

I doubt whether all the prime terms are exhausted. I don't think the field has been examined in sufficient depth by local language experts to be clear that is the case.

Yes, I would agree that it far too early to concerned about any other than very commericial terms. Urdu except for local language speakers should be seen as part of a mix portfolio, which hopefully would contain some Japanese, Chinese, Russian and Arabic.

Originally Posted by abdussamad

Emails yes, documents depends on the subject I guess. I suggest you visit wiredpakistan.com or pakpassion.net . The latter is a cricket site and it's forums will give you a good idea of what I mean.

The potential for Urdu language domains is definitely there. But its a long term investment.

I agree about the long-term investment, in as much as I don't expect to sell Urdu terms in the short-term. Indeed, I doubt that I will ever sell Urdu Terms, as they won't raise much against their potential now, and by the time they start to fulfill that potential selling won't be something we expect to be doing.

[Fka200]

Old thread but I got bored and logged into my Namedrive account. Hindi actually made me some money this week. Nothing like some of my other names, but surprised.