ARABIC INTERNET SERVICE TAKES COMMANDING LEAD
Maktoob.com notches up magic half-million mark in membership
as latest Alexa rankings confirms its leading status
Dubai: Maktoob.com, the leading Arabic online community,
announced yesterday that the number of its registered members had
crossed the enviable 500,000 mark even as the latest Alexa.com
rankings overwhelmingly confirmed its status as the foremost
Arabic Internet service in the world.
According to the latest official rankings released by Alexa.com, a
highly reputed subsidiary of Amazon.com, Maktoob.com has taken a
commanding position at the 2734th rank world wide with the nearest
Arab Internet competitor several places behind (see attached,
official Alexa rankings). The findings were based on the user
traffic to these websites.
“We at Maktoob are naturally quite excited by the latest Alexa
results and the fact that more and more users all over the world
are constantly discovering new benefits after enrolling into the
Maktoob family,” pointed out Marwan Ibrahim, Marketing Manager
of Maktoob. “It only confirms the fact that we have achieved
our goal of successfully creating a web service that Arabs can
call their own.”
The ground-breaking Internet service (www.maktoob.com) has become
a landmark development for the Arab world, emphasizing the
region’s growing importance as a key international IT player.
Since its launch two years ago, Maktoob.com has played a crucial
role in uniting Arabs from all over the world by providing
sophisticated and reliable web-based communications and community
tools, including the Arab world’s first free bilingual Web-based
email service.
Ibrahim said that one reason for Maktoob.com’s growing popularity
in the Arab world and its success in creating the largest virtual
Arab community was the service’s ability to allow users to send
and receive Arabic email even with an English operating system. At
the same time, the ease of registration and operation help
first-time email users to understand the advantages of quicker
communication.
Ibrahim added that Maktoob.com would support the rising number of
memberships by employing latest Internet technologies. “We are
constantly exploring ways of enhancing our operations to ensure a
trouble-free service,” he said. “In the coming weeks,
Maktoob.com will launch a whole new range of exciting concepts
that will make us even more popular with our members.”
The free membership to the Maktoob site opens a world of exclusive
benefits that are not available on any other website. These
include a comprehensive WAP facility for email, a sophisticated
Anti-Virus Auto-Scan solution for both incoming and outgoing email
messages, and Instant Messaging.
Maktoob.com is the first Arabic / English web-based email
solutions provider and leading virtual community for Arabs
worldwide. Launched in October 1998, Maktoob.com gained instant
success among Arabs around the world. Besides the free email
service, the company offers a range of interactive web-based
facilities including Instant Messaging, Live Internet Radio
Station, Voicemail, a comprehensive business directory, Arabic
music, chat, electronic greeting cards and information services.
For more details, please contact,
Edward D’Mello
Headline Public Relations
Tel: 009714 – 3475006; Fax: 009714 – 3475013
e-mail:
edward@headlinepr.com
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