Pakistan Railway has forgotten to renew its domain name on time, we have checked.
Domain name, PakRail.com was due for renewal on August 24th, 2016 but the team that manages the task probably forgot to do that.
While the domain name expired, the URL pakrail.com is now redirecting the users to a third-party placeholder. The original content of Pakistan Railway has vanished and will not come back until someone from Pakistan Railways renews the domain name.
It won’t be out of place to mention that Domain registrars keep domain names locked for one month even after expiry, until these names are put up on sale again. Which means that Pakistan Railway will have to renew its domain name in the next few days if it doesn’t want to lose an 8 year old domain altogether.
It must be noted here that a domain renewal costs just around Rs. 1,000.
Screen-grab of PakRail.com
Not to mention, Pakistan Railway spent millions to setup its online ticketing service through which anyone could buy railway tickets from the website.
However, the department failed to renew its domain, and this means all the hard work it did on the website is at risk of going down the flush.
It is saddening to see such state of affairs when Pakistani businesses and government departments give no importance to their online properties, services that we should mention, are making millions in other foreign countries.
With increasing number of internet users in the country, there is a dire demand to streamline online properties so that they may act as the major channel for sales, support and information for public but apparently, the state’s priorities lie elsewhere.
Update:
We are told that Pakistan Railway has gotten a new domain name: https://www.pakrail.gov.pk/
And this is probably why they let this old domain name (PakRail.Com) go away on purpose.
Will someone please tell Pakistan Railway, that you don’t let your old domain names go away like this, instead you keep them and forward old domain name to any new domain name.
Primary reason is that a lot of people will still go to PakRail.com when they will search Pakistan Railway on Google.
Additionally, not many would know of new domain name of Pakistan Railway as they type domain names directly, instead of searching it on Google or other search engines.
Update 2:
Pakistan Railway has now renewed its PakRail.com domain as well. We suggest them to 301 redirect it to their main site, to make sure that no user is missed and also to retain the search engine juice.
sorry state of affairs.
nops its not,.,
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is post ka koi mtlb nh, domain working fine check again
Non -www say www pe redirect bhi kardo website :P ata hai ya batau ?
LOL
This clearly explains where the “millions” went .
yupp!! not working.. Pakistan railway need to change there IT staff!
not the IT Staff but the Finance Department
just checked WHOIS.. they renewed the domain few minuts ago :D
Lolz
“Not to mention, Pakistan Railway spent millions to setup its online ticketing service through which anyone could buy railway tickets from the website.”
Please explain from where and how we can buy tickets online? The link is redirecting to another old propak article where we surely can’t buy tickets. So elaborate this statement sir.
that feature will be available in heaven. their get E-ticket now never worked. https://www.pakrail.gov.pk/ it tells that you don’t have any trains available to any destination in Pakisan.
I also checked just now. All destinations no trains available. Funny?
Check from Lahore to Rawalpindi, Its working very fine. i have already booked and seat is also selected. Good Work by Pakistan Railway
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they just renewed the domain name. kuch jaga pr DNS resolve hogea hai kuch jaga pr abi b cache hai …
means renewed once was mentioned here. so the article was not wrong when it was published.
yes. article was accurate when it was published!
Actually wo Sifarshi bharti karte hain or phir unhain kam sikhatay hain…
I have tried e-booking on new website, you can’t book without verifying your email address and email verification is not working, hence booking is not working.
E-ticketing is all fraud. Try contacting a coolie, he’ll get the job done for you.
I appreciate & think that things are going to be positive.BEST REGARDS
Article is not from Pro Pakistani it is from Pro-PoTI…….ha ha ha
let me just correct u here….. the site is http://www.railpk.com/ just google it and the site is working also. may be they did not renew it on purpose…. as they have already shifted…
301 redirect would have been a better option
ProPakistani will never tell you that Pakistan Railway is the first Railway in the World which is giving Online Seat Selection facility to the passengers. It will only promote negative news which are against the Pakistan Railway.
LOL that never works, i tried it hundreds of times and never succeeded in booking a ticket.
E-Ticket is available from Lahore to Rawalpindi Section, I have already booked. Its working fine.
LOL looks like their employees are on work after reading your post. Maybe they read my comment as well and redirect their website from non www to www as well. Bunch of morons.
Wait, Pakistan has railway?
Seriously though, since I came back from Tokyo, I feel like crying every time I see the condition of railway, and transport system in general in Pakistan.
We should appreciate the positive things.I visit Pakistan Railways it was good experience.the staff was very coperative.All the work is done on time
There eticketing system doesnt seems to be working as I cannot see any train’s in the route
??? love you propakistani for update1 and 2. And mentioning it’s importance to old school railway people. I appreciate alot
forgot or blander?
I am afraid why don’t we have railway.com.pk or some official domain name.
Chill out dude,,, official domain has launched https://pakrail.gov.pk/