With the grown internet community and technology, ccTlds are paying their huge role in internet search visibility, specially for gaining local results, companies and corporates like to be online with country specific extensions. .PK is the main ccTld issued for nationals of Pakistan. All operations for booking and launching website with their particular suffix were started early in year 1992 and designated registry responsible for such operations was named as PKNIC. Due to lack of internet users and technology subscribers, about all ccTlds faced a poor business for more than a decade but with the passage of time, and grooming in IT industry along with deficiency of available keywords in generic Tlds, give a chance to boom country based extension providers. As a result, in todays google search, about 60% results are available with local suffix. Though, advanced countries make such rules and promote their local extensions a way that they got early familiarities whereas PK registry due to it low level of services came into market very late. As per my research all domain names with all kinds of PK extensions issued by PKNIC were not more than 25000 in number till the year 2012. But later PKNIC took some great steps, created a competitive market for its reseller, offered prizes on years highest sales. As a result, today after few years, number has increased to hundred thousand of registered .PK domains.
What are top .PK domain extensions and their use?
.pk itself is the top PKNIC offered cctld whereas all other suffix are second or third level extensions. I will try to elaborate all of them with their official use, restrictions.
.PK Top PKNIC extension, most commonly registered
.com.pk send level suffix, companies like to purchase it
.net.pk Internet provider companies in Pakistan
.org.pk Pakistani organization
.biz.pk best for business when domain is not available in .pk and .com.pk
.web.pk website relevant business
.fam.pk personal blog type
All below mentions extensions are restricted and can only be obtained by various Pakistan based departments, colleges, universities, schools and educational institutions, to acquire such domains, one must have to provide the written request on the letter head of their respective category.
.edu.pk For registered/affiliated educational institutes of Pakistan
.gov.pk For Federal Government Departments
.gop.pk For Punjab Government Departments
.gos.pk For Sindh Government Departments
.gkp.pk For Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government Departments
.gob.pk For Baluchistan Government Departments
.gog.pk For Giligit Baltistan Government Departments
.gok.pk For Azad Kashmir Government Departments
How do I purchase a PK domain?
It is never a big question in today’s era but the top query is exactly where to buy a cheap PK domain, being a blogger and website developer, i am always in need of new domains from myself as well as for my clients so i kept of searching on this query and from last 10 years, for buying PK based domain in lowest costs, i always rely on PK-Domain, the above mentioned banner is dedicated to them due to their quality and cheap domain registration services in Pakistan. Currently they are offering worldly cheap .pk domain registration in PKR.2339 for 2 years, even the price is lesser than the main registry PKNIC. They offered convenient payment methods to proceed like Bank Transfer, Credit Card, Paypal, EasyPaisa, JazzCash, UBL Omni, Upaisa and even cash payments.
PK Domain Hosting
If you currently do not have a website and want to start your business, your origin is Pakistan and your buyers are also reside locally, the best bet is to go with any suffix from .pk or .com.pk domain, it will give you an early edge on other generic extensions like .com or .net if you know a little about seo. The next task is to attach your web name with a hosting account and to make your website live. If you do not have resources to get a website designed from a web development company then i will recommend you to purchase a plan for wordpress hosting Pakistan, they will install default wordpress for you which will give you a control to create, edit and delete many of your desired things you want to take online. If you want a professional website for your local business then a consultancy and order to a web development company is necessary, for that you must have hosting to provide your developer so that they can upload your website on a server. You can compare various hosting plans at https://www.pk-domain.com/shared-hosting.html and start with one which can work better for you.
I am hopeful that given above information will help many, i will keep on writing about various similar topics, keep in touch for next “info”.