• Google Search

    In the last couple of days a lot of traffic has literally erupted on this blog thru Google and Yahoo! "Marketing in India" has thrown atleast 10 visits to my blog so has "Advertising in India". Now strangely when I look up "Marketing India" on Google, my blog is on the third/fourth page of the search results. I can empirically deduce that more and more people are looking for blogs for content and knowledge rather than 'well marketed' websites. I shall observe further and keep posted.

  • Random Observations:

    Why is it my dad's first car worked flawlessly for 15 years? Am I addicted to the Internet? Why do people buy 4.5 crores worth of cars? Why is it that Times of India has Shilpa Shetty on the cover? Are we way too dependent on Google? How did people keep in touch when there were no mobile phones? And how about when there were to telephones? Is the world shrinking? Or is it just the ozone hole? How did people stick to one job for decades? Does Gandhigiri actually work?

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  • My Wishlist

    1- Fossil Bluetooth Watch
    2- Lego Mindstorms
    3- Microsoft XBOX
    4- Sony Bravia 46" LCD TV
    5- Kenwood Touchscreen Car System Hit Counter counter create hit

How I know Shiksha.com could be Infoedge’s foray into education

Posted on October 20, 2007 by Mohak Gambhir

A couple of weeks ago, I got to know of a big transaction in the Domaining world. Shiksha.com was bought by Infoedge (Naukri.com) for an undisclosed amount. This info was interesting as it came in close heels with this announcement by Infoedge (Naukri.com) on their foray into the booming education market.

Now today, during my regular reading on domain investments, I saw ‘Siksha.com‘ (notice it being Siksha and not Shiksha) being bought by another South Delhi based software company for USD 10,000.

Okay – so here is what I foresee: Siksha.com will get a lot of type-in traffic once cash rich Infoedge starts to advertise using mass media. Free traffic for Siksha.com and ad revenue for Pragati Infosoft . Could that would force Infoedge (Naukri.com) to buy the domain by adding another zero to the figure? Or maybe am speculating too early. Watch this space.

Exciting. Domaining is getting into mainstream! And I can be with the FBI for unearthing something which is virtually unknown to many.

Edit: The domain records of Shiksha.com now carry InfoEdge as the owner with the VP (Technology) Manish Gulati’s Yahoo address.
Siksha.com owned by Pragati Infosoft

Shiksha.com whois record Infoedge

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6 Responses

  1. Shiksha.com to host Info Edge’s (Naukri) education portal? : Alootechie, on October 22nd, 2007 at 11:10 am Said:

    [...] the Shiksha.com domain name where the company may host its yet to be launched education portal. Mohak Gambhir, a blogger, speculates that Info Edge might also consider buying a related domain name Siksha.com [...]

  2. Ravi Venkatraman, on October 22nd, 2007 at 4:27 pm Said:

    The Delhi-based software company
    (Pragati Infosoft) also owns
    SHIKSHA.IN and
    Proctor & gamble owns
    SHIKSHA.CO.IN

  3. Mohak Gambhir, on October 22nd, 2007 at 4:30 pm Said:

    @ Ravi – Everyone knows that you own the uber prime keywords in .co.in :-)

  4. Rahul Razdan, on November 8th, 2007 at 3:28 pm Said:

    Do we now know why you take so long between your posts? This is as ’stingy’ as they come :)
    Awesome!

  5. Abhishek, on December 25th, 2007 at 11:30 am Said:

    Dude… rocking inside info with an edge.
    This analysis, i hope u used to enter the infoedge stock. It was 1000 someting when u posted and zoomed to 1700 in FnO inclusion.

    Great work…. Keep posted.

  6. santosh, on January 5th, 2008 at 3:27 am Said:

    Check out http://www.indiaJobster.com

    It is launched last week and indexes all the jobs from India ( currently more than 3,15,000 jobs and thousands are added everday and are listed from all the major Indian job engines/job boards and news papers all with one click)

    You can do a search by location and keyword easliy with one click and get all the jobs in one place.

    They also provide a way to filter the job results by the job board.

    Try it out! Its cool! and its free

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