What we learned building it.

Notes on the problems we actually hit: PKNIC domains, hosting that is fast from Pakistan, payment gateways, and the parts of a build nobody documents.

Pakistan web infrastructure31 Aug 2026

The Pakistani developer's guide to domains, hosting and deployment

Buying a .pk domain, configuring PKNIC DNS, picking a host that is fast from Pakistan, provisioning SSL and getting email delivered. The whole path, in order.

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Pakistan web infrastructure31 Aug 2026

Cloudflare was serving a robots.txt we did not write

Cloudflare was serving a managed robots.txt that blocked every AI crawler, silently overriding ours. Here is how we found it and what it cost.

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Pakistan web infrastructure31 Aug 2026

Getting email from a .pk domain into the inbox

SPF, DKIM and DMARC set up through the PKNIC panel, and why transactional email from a new .pk domain lands in spam until you configure all three.

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Pakistan web infrastructure31 Aug 2026

How to point a PKNIC .pk domain at Vercel

The exact A and CNAME records to set in the PKNIC panel to run a .pk domain on Vercel, plus how long propagation really takes and what breaks.

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Pakistan web infrastructure31 Aug 2026

Six hosting options for Pakistani websites, ranked by measured latency

We measured connect, TLS and TTFB times from a Pakistani connection against eight hosts. Local hosting is often slower for local users. Here are the numbers.

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