Most Favourite Sri Lankan Website Competition Winners Announced

23rd November 2009, www.dailymirror.lk, BY Vincent Poturica

At the Water's Edge Hotel Friday night, LK Domain hosted the first ever 'Most Favourite Sri Lankan Website' competition.

Domain Registrar at LK Domain Registry Professor Gihan Dias explained in his introduction that he hoped the event would become an annual affair to recognise high quality Sri Lankan websites, promote websites in Sinhala and Tamil as well as the LK registry itself, and support IT development and localisation throughout the island.

"We want this competition to popularise and promote Sri Lankan web sites, recognise Sri Lankan web developers and improve the use of Lankan domains," Professor Dias said.

Director General of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka Priyantha Kariyapperuma, who was the Distinguished Speaker for the ceremony, supported LK Domain's innovation to provide website material in all three languages.

"The most readily available language is English, but we should not have barriers to cyberspace. We need to provide all rural children access to cyberspace for the advancement of our nation," Kariyapperuma said.

The winner for 'Best Tamil Website' was www.parliament.lk, with www.enews.lk as the 'Second Runner-Up'. The award for 'Best Sinhala Website' went to www.worldpeople.lk, while www.lankapuvath.lk, www.myblog.lk, www.news.lk, www.nimnaya.lk were honoured as 'Top 5 Runners-Up'.

Top honours for 'Best English Website' went to both www.elakiri.lk and www.music.lk, while adaderma.lk, keellssuper.lk, and odel.lk received 'Top 5 Runner-Up' honours. These winners were chosen by popular vote.

Five special categories were also honoured at the event. The websites www.parliament.lk, www.films.lk, and www.odel.lk took top honours for 'Best Government', 'Entertainment' and 'E-Commerce' websites respectively, while the award for 'Best Website Design and Content' also went to www.odel.lk.

Affno was designated 'Best Website Developer' for its work with www.odel.lk and www.parliament.lk. These special category recipients were chosen by a panel of judges and based upon three evenings during which the judges visited every website in the LK Domain Registry.

WINNERS

Best Tamil Website - www.parliament.lk

Runner Up - www.enews.lk

Best Sinhala Website - www.woldpeople.lk Runners Up - www.lankapvath.lk, www.myblog.lk, www.news.lk, www.nimnaya.lk

Best English Website - www.elakiri.lk, www.music.lk

Top 5 Runners Up - www.adaderana.lk, www.keellssuper.lk, www.odel.lk

Top 20 Runners Up - www.ananman.lk, www.advertisement.lk, www.airforce.lk, www.bhoomi.lk, www.classifiedads.lk,

www.crazy.lk, www.deals.lk, www.edex.lk, www.fat.lk, www.films.lk, www.gamer.lk, www.metropolitan.lk,

www.singersl.lk, www.ticketslk.lk, www.waterfalls.lk

SPECIAL HONOURS

Best Government Website - www.parliament.lk

Certificate of Merit - www.airforce.lk, www.news.lk

Best Entertainment Website - www.films.lk

Certificate of Merit - www.derana.lk, www.hitzbox.lk

Best E-Commerce Website - www.odel.lk

Certificate of Merit - www.keellssuper.lk, www.singersl.lk

Best Website Design and Content - www.odel.lk

Certificate of Merit - www.parliament.lk, www.railwaymuseum.lk

Best Website Developer - Affno, for its work with www.odel.lk and www.parliament.lk

Certificate of Merit - Colombo Communications, for its work with www.laviniabreeze.lk and www.efm.lk, Vanguard

Management Services, for its work with www.lbr.lk and www.efm.lk