4.
Best University and
Education Institute Website
Organizations providing Higher
Education, Universities, Schools, Institutes, Affiliated Universities, Student
recruitment, etc., (private and government)
5.
Best e-Commerce Website
Web sites providing e-commerce
facilities to make online transactions/ payments.(These websites should enable
SSL certificates)
6.
Best Banking and Finance
Website
Banks and Financial Institutes
(government or private)
7.
Best Government Website
Corporations, ministries,
authorities and other bodies which come under parliamentary supervision.
(Budgets and final accounts are reported to the parliament).
8.
Best Media, Sports &
Entertainment Website
Websites of TV, Radio,
newspapers, news sites, sports, games, reality shows, events, parties, music,
video, etc.
9.
Best Nonprofit Website
Organizations that provide
information or services to the general public without a commercial objective.
10.
Best Travel &
Tourism Website
Websites providing services for
tourists and local travelers, Hotels, tour companies, booking services, travel
agents, etc.
11.
Best Health &
Wellness Website
Hospitals (Human & Animals),
wellness and fitness products and services, spas, medical equipment, pharmacies
etc.
should have any needed licences.
12.
Best Personal Website
Websites focused on an individual
such as politicians artistes, authors, professionals, etc.
Special category winners are selecting from the winner
Best Sinhala Website
Best Tamil Website
Best Mobile-optimized Website
Overal Winners – Developers
Most popular website – by vote
Competition
Rules :
Eligibility Criteria
The BestWeb.lk Competition is open to all
websites registered under.lk domain.
The website owner / developer can submit the
registration form. If the developer submits it, the owner’s consent is
mandatory.
The websites that contains any of the
following will not be eligible to enter the competition:
Websites
with Illegal, Obscene, Abusive or Preposterous content
Websites that are in the opinion of judges deemed to be of poor quality, in bad
taste or have defamatory content
Websites
that have been deemed unsuitable for the competition by the judging panel for
any other reason.
Sinhala and Tamil websites will be
eligible only if its content is available in Unicode standards.
In the event if any of the competitors were
found influencing the judges or involved in promoting negative information
regarding competitors, they will immediately be disqualified from the
competition.
The registrants must submit a small write-up
about the website that includes purpose of the site, special features of the
website, target audience etc.
Optional – Marks will be given for the use of
social media and also for broad web presence (being featured in others’
websites, e.g.: hotel booking) – One social media site and one website on which
the registrant website is featured in should be provided.
.com or re-directing sites are not eligible
for the competition
Logo to be displayed on the website with the
links sent, if not your application for bestweb.lk 2019 will not be processed
for the competition.
Nominating/Registering a website
Anyone
can nominate/register websites by providing Name, Email, Contact Number and
Website. Entries must be submitted online using the online entry form, which is
available at www.bestweb.lk.
A website is considered entered into the
competition, after a completed entry form is received by the LK Domain
Registry.
Nominated
websites will be subjected to a review by a Panel of Judges and the website
owners will be notified regarding the nominations. They should agree to the
terms and conditions of the competition, if their website is to be considered
for the evaluation stage.
They should also mention under which Awarding
Category their website should be considered. Before the commencement of the
voting phase, website owners should display the BestWeb logo prominently in
their website with a link to the www.bestweb.lk.
website.
Selection after registration
1he
entries will be judged by a Panel of Judges. In the event that a website is not
accessible during the evaluation period, the website will not be selected for
the voting phase.
The
judges reserve the right to request for additional information or reject a
nominated website without explanation.
Choosing
a winning website will be solely at the discretion of the Judges and is not
negotiable by nominators.
Website
owners should be reachable on the contact details provided by them and should
agree to the terms and conditions of the competition in order to be selected
for the voting stage.
Nominated
website can be scheduled for an external website scan at anytime in the “Review
of application period” mentioned in the “Time Frame” (Until Releasing the
Results) to assess the eligibility for the competition on the website’s
security perspective.
Further on the basis of scanned reports, weak security
websites will be informed to re-design/re-structure their websites immediately
to be in the competition else will be disqualified.
Voting for a website:
Voting
and traffic monitoring will be on for a period of one (01) week.
Each
person shall only vote once per each category per week.
Anyone
can vote for a website using the online entry form in the www.bestweb.lk. A
valid email address should be provided for any communications during the
competition
.
Any
fraudulent or multiple votes will be discarded and any sites for which
fraudulent votes are sent may be disqualified.
In
the event of any conflicts during the competition, the decision of the judges
will be considered as final.
