Telenor, Your Website's URL Structuring is a Mess -

By admin | 01, Mar 2012 | 54 Comments

Telenor Pakistan’s official website needs an urgent fix for its URL structuring. The problem is that links don’t work If not typed “www” with the main URL.

For instance, type telenor.com.pk (not www.telenor.com.pk) and then try to open any link, yes any link – it won’t work.

Following is what you are likely to get:

I suppose not many internet users type www along with URLs, especially if its .PK domain. I am saying this because a shortcut Ctrl+Enter is largely used with domain names to automatically type www + .com with the domain – but that’s for top level domain. For instance, type Yahoo in your address bar and hit Ctrl+Enter.

We first noticed this when Telenor Pakistan revamped their website last year. But didn’t point it out – just because we thought that they are working on it and might get things straight.

I remember our friend Saad Hamid once mentioning @TelenorPakistan of this flaw over Twitter, but appears they have given up looking at their website (and Twitter account). This is probably why “Blog” section on Telenor’s website is displaying “Coming Soon” for months.

Update

Okay, it appears Telenor has fixed the issue now.

http://www.fashionarc.com Usama Zafar

It’s working fine here
Saeed

Telenor shahbass – go and look your .htaccess file quickly.
- Ahmed
  
  it doesn’t work for UBL website even.
Junaid Kiyani

Works fine here without (3w). Please check your browser settings
- admin
  
  can you open this url: http://telenor.com.pk/corporate-ethics/objectives-and-strategy
  - Faisal Raza
    
    Aamir bhai yeh URL tu kisi bhe condition main open nahi ho rahe hai, either with www nor without
    - admin
      
      They are probably working on it, let’s try it in a while.
      - Monis
        
        its not about that link
        there whole website needs to be fixed
        the drop down menu of hote about us services corporate responsibility and etc etc aren’t working from a long time and i have told you this on ur fb page about 1or2 weeks ago :P
  - Tariq
    
    working fine.with www & without www
tanveer ameen

i have open above link by add http://www….go here like:
http://www.telenor.com.pk/corporate-ethics/objectives-and-strategy
- http://twitter.com/sachakaka Sacha Kaka
  
  not working for me with or without “www”
http://twitter.com/sachakaka Sacha Kaka

Hey this is about two or three months old problem I am facing. I thought temporarily problem.

70% of site unusable. Only propakistani noticed this.
- bilal
  
  i also noticed this on my site ,month before.
  propakistani copy cat
Asif

Good work aamir! now you surely capture their link back on your site! its old technique of SEO but still working because old is gold. keep working to get more authority links to gain more exposure.
- admin
  
  How would i get linkback from their website from this? Please explain, i didn’t get you
  - http://twitter.com/#!/asifdilshad Asif
    
    This was a old technique that help webmasters to gather authorities attentions towards there sites and many time these authorities will give credit to sites who help to solve there problems.
    - admin
      
      i had no such intentions
      - http://twitter.com/#!/asifdilshad Asif
        
        O really is it! ok I will get it. sorry
Imran

useless post
Tommy

its working, i guess …
Tajamal

Aamir bhai Zong ka book your number portal (http://115.186.182.11/byn/) bhi kharab hy, jo bhi number enter kro aik he jawab ata hy ”
Sorry, 031x-xxxxxxx has already been booked.” jab k number kisi k istamal me nhi hota.
Zara

www and without www both works for me always. you should check your browser or update that.
Aslam Dogar

main to telenor site kafi arsay say isi wajah say istemal nahi ker paya bajayay google cache ya djuice ke site say infos leta raha hon
Farha Naz

Works fine for me too :-)
- admin
  
  yes, coz they ve fixed it now
AAM

Lol this guy is using IE
Tanveer Hassan

Aamir, go and fix your head man thats need re-structuring. LOLZ its working!!!
- admin
  
  only after it was fixed
osama

dude what the hell is wrong with you people. everyday you give a report where nothing is wrong and then you use your own ids to confirm it .. please have some respect
- admin
  
  you made me smile :-)
osama

also its shameful that you named a guy from mobilink here .. is this a planted post again
- admin
  
  Saad Hamid wasn’t hired by Mobilink then (when he had pointed this out to your twitter admin), imagine how old this problem was ;-)
  - osama
    
    i just found that tweet and looked into it because i dont believe a word you say and i am an ex mobilinker working with warid and i can confirm two times that he was working there as i was working with the marketing team at that time. Shameful
    - admin
      
      link please
      - osama
        
        dont try to be oversmart. just call him hell confirm it :P
        
        admin
        
        BTW this post wasn’t about Saad, you fixed the issue, thank you very much for that
http://www.syshosting.com Usman

Oh come on, give them a lil break :-P
Nice of you to post though. Its been like this for a while now.

Telenor mostly use www version so they just need 2 line code in .htaccess file to make it all clean. Something like
[code]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
[/code]

Since they running Apache, I don’t see why they haven’t done it already.
Lazy admin :-P
http://twitter.com/sachakaka Sacha Kaka

Now they have fixed the issue but why didn’t notice it for months? No user ever complained? Nobody opens telenor site?
- osama
  
  i know who u are … :) .. please reply here once more
http://www.syshosting.com Usman

This has been an issue for a while (more than few weeks, that I can confirm) … They fixed it in few hours after this post. What’s wrong with you guys???
.
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See the good side, Telenor fixed an issue (stupid thing) due to this blog… Way to go Aamir …
Diya

You have based a whole article for Telenor’s url?and one telenor url which was not working!?!?!wow!
Telenor surely does matter then!

And yes please choose a better “issue” next time :)
http://www.svirgo.com Shining_Virgo

telenor walay kafi expensive hai. in ki website visit karnay ka dil he nai karta.
khan

Why Telenor employees are so much defensive? :)
Yes there was an issue and it was fixed after this post. What’s wrong with that? Why do you guys need to attack the person who in the first place has reported it?

Chill…
Pathologist

its working fine dude…. that wz nt an issue to write an article on it….
http://www.ePeshawar.com Osama Yawar

And the weird thing is that Telenor being such a big Telecom Company made their website on an Open Source Content Management System
- Arsalan
  
  I don’t see anything “weird” in using an open source CMS. You should have a look at http://www.internettips.com/departments/website-publishing/who-is-using-joomla?/ and you can see that Yamaha, Epson, Vodaphone, Olympus, Porsche, Mitsubishi etc are using the same CMS that Telenor is using.
  - http://www.ePeshawar.com Osama Yawar
    
    I agree but still at the end Joomla is not that secured.
Aamir

they fixed the problem
Arsalan

What about http://ubl.com.pk? This URL never works without www. http://www.ubl.com.pk is fine but http://ubl.com.pk is not. I’m experiencing it over 2 years.
Sana Yaqoub

I agree, telenor news ticker links were not working three days ago when I tried from chrome.
Anonymous

OooppsssSsss.. Look at you poor admin, how are you justifying each and every comment. Oh, I remember it is your old habit to “justify”, isn’t it?
- Ahmed
  
  Commenting anonymously ?
http://abdulqadoos.com/top-10-reasons-web-sites-get-gacked/ Abdul Qadoos

they have to fix their .htaccess
http://www.maxtispot.com -W-

It’s Fine Now.