Published: on 18 April 2012
KUALA LUMPUR: Small businesses can now have their own websites with dot.com.my domain almost instantly and at a minimal cost.
This is made possible through Malaysian External Trade Development Corp (Matrade)'s Get Malaysian Business Online (GMBO) programme.
"All they need to upkeep the website is a payment of RM23 a year, which will give them a dot.com.my domain," Matrade exporters development division senior director Datuk Dzulkifli Mahmud said after a seminar on GMBO here yesterday.
Currently, the minimum cost of a professionally designed website is about RM3,000.
"It is illegal for people to conduct businesses on blogs and Facebook. If someone complains, then both Facebook and Blogspot can shut the pages without even consulting you," he said.
He went on to say that even the images put on Facebook, for instance, can be used by the Facebook owner in other sites as and when they wish.
"Because the terms and conditions are so long, no one bothers to read them and they do not realise that their information and pictures loaded on Facebook can be used by Facebook whenever they feel like it and in other mediums," he said.
Google Malaysia head of communications and public affairs Malaysia Zeffri Yusof said companies interested to have a website under GMBO need to have at least a RM2 company, otherwise they cannot obtain a website.
He said the first 10,000 registrants will be able to get the domain for free for the first year.
"After that they have to pay RM23 a year to maintain the domain name only," he said.
He said 6,000 Malaysians have registered so far under the GMBO and there is still room for many companies to enjoy the waiver on the domain name for the first year.
"We will give 10 email addresses, a guide book and a two-hour course to teach entrepreneurs how to set up their websites," he said.
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