| How many Nepali sites are born everyday? | About 1 to 2 Nepali site daily.
Visit the Year 2002 Review |
| Sites authored in Nepali language | about 0.2% or less |
| Confusing Search Terms for Searching Nepal Specify Information on the net | Will it be Nepali or Nepalese?
Your best bet would be to look for information on both the search keywords. |
| What's goes inside a web designing company in Nepal? | Web templates. A few web masters. Then the fastest site design work starts. If it is a travel site, put the buttons Nepal, India, Bhutan and Mount Everest Fly! If it is a business site, add 100 links to business sites around the world and finish it.
Have a look at the travel sites and Tell us if we are wrong! |
| Cost of Registering a Domain Name | Rs 1000 to Rs 1,500 per domain per year |
| Cost of Domain Transfer | Rs 1,250 per transfer |
Minimum Hosting Package
(Package 2 MB, 4GB Monthly Transfer,
Quarterly Site Updates) | Rs 5,000 per annum |
| Number of Nepali Websites * | About 2000 Sites |
| Average Domains Owned by Tours/Travel Company in Nepal | 3
An interesting fact:
There are more tours and travel site in Nepal than any other. |
| Banner Advertisement Business | The idea of marketing and selling through banner advertisement has yet to be realized in Nepal. Companies which ventured into the web market to survive by advertisement earnings have now vanished and many are struggling to survive. Many professional web developers in Nepal create their version of a `guides and directory' for Nepal, this so called portal is another side business for the web developer to promote its clients through banner advertisement. Considering the total number of commercial Nepali websites and their advertisement presence, one can claim that the banner advertisement business in Nepal is Zero! |
| Carbon Copy Nepali Portals of Yellow Pages | As many as 5 players have their own version of yellow pages. Data verification appears poor, source of such data is unknown, does also appear to be a copied data from someone else's portal or web results. Is it really that necessary to have so many yellow pages for a tiny city like Kathmandu? Hold on tight! Yellow pages as many as 10 are coming soon in the cyber-sky of Nepal!! and wait to see who will win the race? More >> |
| Cyber Cafes in Nepal | Internet rates are affordable in Nepal. Cyber cafes are home to students and tourists alike. Cyber cafes in popular cities like Kathmandu, Pokhara, Dharan have mushroomed over the past few months. One hour internet browsing costs Rs 25 to Rs 30 only. |
| Web Institutions in Nepal | Another mushroomed institution is web. For a fraction of a cost of study abroad, internationally certified courses such MCSE are available in Kathmandu. Fresh students; students waiting for results of School Leaving Certificate (SLC) constitute a major portion of the intake in any computer institute. A minimum six month's Computer Diploma Course costs as low as Rs 5,000 (Approx US$ 70) in an average institute while in a small sized it can cost as low as Rs 1,500 (US$ 20). |
| E-commerce | Currently E-commerce sites are the shopping sites which offer services like `send money to Nepal', one can also use the shopping site to buy gifts to send to friends and family in Nepal. The other type of e-commerce sites are the sites of exporters in Nepal such as pashmina and carpet exporters Some e-commerce sites are: -www.netfornepal.com
-www.nepalshop.com
-www.thamel.com
-www.dukuti.com |
| Computerization in Government Owned Institutions | IT is still new to Government of Nepal. Only a few of its centers have a limited computerization. The noteworthy one is Nepal Telecommunication Corporation. |
| Who does not have a website in Nepal? | 1. Many private schools. 2. Small business companies 3. Law firms 4. Charter Accountants
5. Doctors 5.Medical Shops 6.Restaurants and bars 7.Shopping centers 8. All Government Agencies expect a few. Why not? : 1. Limited budget 2. No market penetration by web companies. 3. Lack of awareness 4. Some don't really want website like the chartered accountants. |
