AD.com – A $1.4M domain sale

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Last week AD.com was sold for $1.4 Million in an auction held during TRAFFIC. The best thing about the auction was the name was bought by an Indian company, Skenzo (a group company of Directi). I am really happy that businesses in India are starting to look at domain acquisitions very seriously. Skenzo was represented by Divyank Turakhia, President of Skenzo.

A couple of videos have surfaced after the TRAFFIC auction ended.

The first video shows the intenses bidding war between Divyank and the other bidder (I don’t know who that was).

The second video, taken by another TRAFFIC attendee, shows the determination in Divyank’s eyes and the feeling of victory at the end of the auction. Would love to meet this determined young man.

Lok Satta Party looking for volunteers

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vote With the elections coming up in Andhra Pradesh from April 16th, Lok Satta party is looking for volunteers who will act as booth agents.  There is high need for volunteers.  I feel, we can make things go well and avoid many mischievous things happen during polling.  There is high need for volunteers for the regions  Begumpet, Old Bowenpally, Fatenagar, Balanagar, Moti Nagar, Moosapet & KPHB.

The essential task of a polling booth agent is to verify that the person who has come to vote is a registered voter.  You may be also required to do tasks like doing some announcements, help or resolve doubts or sit inside pooling booth and verify voter ids. A training session is likely to be conducted about the duties of the polling booth agent.

If you feel you can make a difference towards better quality of elections ,then  call to Madhav (9000123316) or Ravi (9000086868).

Letz vote for a better India and help others to vote…

2BHK Apartment for Rent in JP Nagar, Bangalore

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My Cousin just finished ‘Grahapravesham’ of his new 2BHK apartment in Bangalore. It is available for rent now.

The flat is 1500sqft with Interiors completed.

Location: HM World City, JP Nagar 9th Phase, Bangalore

If you are interested, you can contact him directly.

PS: I will update sometime later with photos of the flat and if possible the location also.

Update 1:

Location of the apartment
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I am Back…

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Like the Terminator says, I am Back. Sometime during last week, I thought of changing the look of my site. I have been using the same theme for the past two years. So I thought, ‘Itz time for a change’ and change I did. After hunting for two days, picked up a theme to my liking applied it, added Google Analytics (yea, I will never forget this step) and went to sleep.

The next day, I was randomly checking my site, it was throwing an Internal Server Error. :-O

Tried hard to troubleshoot the problem for two days, restored database from an old backup – still no light at the end of the tunnel. I had to hurriedly put up a temporary landing page so that my SERPs isn’t screwed up and back to head-breaking.

Yesterday night, when I was going to sleep, I got a thought suddenly. All this happened after I changed the theme of my site. Maybe the theme is broken after all. Today morning, keeping my fingers crossed, I logged in to my WordPress account and guess what? I see a warning saying that the active is broken. whew!

Now, put up a new theme, added the Google Analytics code again (yea…) and writing this post…

For all those people who make fun of me… “I am Back”

Lessons learnt:

  • If you have a problem that you are not able to solve, sleep over it. The solution will present itself.  🙂