Free website builder uCoz launches Armenian localization

YEREVAN, August 31. /ARKA /. Free website builder uCoz announced the launch of its new, Armenian-language service, which will give Armenian-speaking Internet users the opportunity to design websites  in their native language, uCoz told ARKA.

According to uCoz managing partner, Yevgeny Kurt, the decision to launch this localization was very natural for it.
"Despite our absolute leadership in websites design across the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, we understand that we can make our product more convenient and closer to users, including, by localizing it in a particular language. We could not fail to see the marked increase in Internet traffic in Armenia, as well as the fact that the growth rate of Internet users in Armenia is the highest in the CIS. Therefore our decision was easy,’ he said.

The company said that the SaaS platform of uCoz has become very popular due to its simplicity and availability for the newcomers in web construction. Over six and a half years of operation, the system has become the starting point for a whole generation of web-masters.
"The emergence of the Armenian localization is expected to have a positive impact both on the quantity and the quality of Armenian-language sites. uCoz list  of free domain names  has Armenia’s  national domain do.am ", it said.

The Internet penetration in Armenia is growing. In 2011 Armenia was ranked first in the CIS in terms of this indicator (47.1% of the total population). Today ucoz.ru is among twenty most popular sites in Armenia, and the average daily number of visitors from Armenia is about 100,000 hosts and 1,000,000 hits.

uCoz  is  a versatile website builder that allows creation of a website of any complexity. The service was launched in 2005. Since its inception it has grown into a stable and reliable partner for beginners in web design, and for experienced webmasters. It is also one of the ten most popular sites in Russian internet space.  -0-