question Are Arabic Domains Garbage and do you have any?

Brandingtheweb.com said:

Maybe I will just stick to names where there is just one possible spelling and cannot be confused, like MiddleeastStore.com

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George Ahel said:

If your targeted audience is western people whom native language isn't arabic than yes stick to that. However if you want to target arabic native speakers, any spelling of a genuine word is much better than yours cause it's easier to brand and pronounce among them even though we all basically speak multiple languages still we familiarize more with an Arabic word.

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abdou01 said:

Ishtri is a good name, but as I said and as you know there are many alternative spellings depending on the country and even in the same country you can find too many alternative, for example:
in Kuwait : ishtri or eshtri
in Egypt: ishtiri or eshteri or eshtiri ...
in Morocco: shri or chri (because Moroccan speak French as second language and they prefer "ch" instead of "sh")

it's a litlle bit complicated,

there are 1 IDN word that can success in Arabic contries which is: سكس or جنس (= Sex) but I think this will success all over the world not only in Arabic countries
جنس.com (reg on 2004)
سكس.com (reg on 2001)

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George Ahel said:

That is a good discussion. I believe that Arabic domains are not garbage at all, they are being used more and more in my country Lebanon as the interest in online marketing and business is increasing day after day. However the trick is that the name should be spelled correctly, grammatically right and short of course like one word only. Even if an Arabic word can have multiple spellings, you'll find that a really Premium word would be registered in all its forms.
Like "RealEstate" for example in arabic it's: Iqar - aliqar - iqarat - aqar - alaqar - alaqarat - 3iqar - 3aqar - 3iqarat - 3aqarat ...... and many more, however if you look you'll find almost ALL these words are registered already and with many extensions .com .net .org ....
I was lucky enough to acquire "aliqar.com" whom the owner forgot to renew or something and i snatched it as soon as it dropped while all its other extensions are still registered.
So don't hesitate if you find a real high quality Arabic domain.

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Haroon Basha said:

Some Nigerian scammer will be interested in your AbuDhabiWealthFund.com.

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gbs domain said:

Souq.com means shopping or shop???anyone here??

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Avtar629 said:

Alright it's about THAT time. These domains renewed thee other day forgot about rethinking these. I can still get these grace refunded. so please everyone chime it.

Keep or Drop? ( mind you just because you say DROP doesn't mean I WILL lol so that you guys can snatch it up at drop and slap a privacy on it. I will take all opinions first and see what the room thinks. Thanks.)

of these I think Fayiq.com I will keep.


laeib.com


alaleab.com


fayiq.com


alfailat.com


alfilat.com


hiwanalif.com


rufahia.com


altatbiq.com


albarmjiat.com


muttaraf.com


birumjiat.com


mukallafa.com


mutaraf.com


alttatbiq.com


burfakat.com


dhahabi.com


barmjiat.com


alfaylat.com


hiwanalyf.com


aistathmar.com


muzadahur.com


yushtaraa.com

Thank you in advance.

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Avtar629 said:

I shortened the original thread title which was:

Are Arabic character and or Arabic word domains created using western characters garbage?

Just wanted to know since I did register some like last year. I really don't understand why Arabic Character domains and even Arabic word domains created using western characters (A,B,C,D,E-X,Y,Z) haven't really taken off since ICANN allowed IDN's? One would assume easily that anything "arabic" is Big money just because of the wealth in those countries. Why hasn't it been adopted in areas like Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates? I mean for a culture that takes pride in being "Strict" with it's rules and having so much pride in it's culture (rightly so because of it's rich history) why haven't they adopted the idea of using their language with Arabic characters in the domains they use for their businesses? I mean I understand that Saudi Arabia and the UAE basically want western businesses to come to UAE and Saudi Arabia. So it makes sense that they would want to make it easier for Westerners to easily find their websites since of course most Westerners don't read nor speak Arabic but still why not accompanying Arabic domain to match company domain?

I know there are other IDN's but I have a specific purpose for this thread so I'm leaving this as a separate thread and next will be the Chinese IDN version of this thread.

So let's hear all your comments, opinions from everyone newbies to Guru's and everyone in between. Let's hear your thoughts and views and honest opinion on this topic. Thanks.

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abdou01 said:

there are a lot of other words that mean "Buy" so Arab have the choice:


ichtari, yachtari, ichtaroo, ichtarou, chiraa2
i9tani, i9tana, i9tinaa2, iktani, iktana, iktinaa, iktinaa2 .....

Arabic is very rich language, you have the alternative for 95% of the words, even god has 99 names

There are 346 words that mean "Lion" !!! so ... it's complicated to find a single exclusive word in arabic

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