Divyank Turakhia on Media.net sale : Why we sold to a Chinese group
The recent sale of Media.net and its business by the Turakhia brothers, for $900 million dollars, arrived as a shock on a busy Monday. Co-founder, Divyank Turakhia might have a hard to pronounce name, but that did not stop the enterprising 35 year old from building a media empire – on a .net domain, no […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Invest in India : Divyank Turakhia on Bloomberg TV
Divyank Turakhia, founder and CEO of Media.net, appeared on the US Edition of “Invest in India” and Bloomberg TV. Along with Shafi Saxena, Chief Brand Officer at News Republic, they are discussing the changing face of media, and the Indian Prime Minister’s visit to the Silicon Valley. Turakhia gives a very educating interview that sheds […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Divyank Turakhia jumps from edge of Space, breaks record
Google executive Alan Eustace beat Felix Baumgartner’s skydiving record two days ago, but it didn’t last too long. Indian domain entrepreneur, Divyank Turakhia broke Eustace’s record this morning, performing a breath-taking jump from the edge of space. The new altitude record for a free-falling person now stands at 151,822 feet, or 46.2753 kilometers. “It was […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Media.net founder Divyank Turakhia learned how to pilot helicopters in a week!
A new article in the economic section of The Times of India describes Divyank Turakhia‘s passion for flying airplanes and helicopters. The founder of Directi and Media.net has a passion for flying which materialized in 2008, when he bought a Cessna172 plane and learned how to fly for that very reason: “I didn’t know how […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Turakhia Brothers ready to buy back 100% stake in Media.net
Directi UAE is a business consortium owned by the Turakhia brothers, Divyank and Bhavin. The company currently owns two thirds of Media.net, with the remainder managed by another investor on-board, London-based Ashmore Investment Management. According to The Times of India, Media.net, which manages over $200 million dollars in annual revenue is the only venture started […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Divyank Turakhia: How to remember the hardest names in Domaining
Some domainers have nearly unpronounceable names, and when you first meet them at a domain conference you might take a second look at their business cards. Memorizing these difficult names can be made easier though, if one utilizes a series of tricks that involve visualization. Let’s take, for example, domain investor and entrepreneur, Divyank Turakhia. […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Blast from the Domainer past: Skenzo, DNZoom and Moniker at TRAFFIC
It’s strange what one finds while opening some old boxes in the garage 😀 Accidentally, we opened a box of memorabilia from previous domain conferences; this particular one was from TRAFFIC 2008 in Orlando, Florida. It was a great experience! Some great people attended the conference, among which Monte Cahn, founder and then still CEO […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Turakhia brothers: How to make $100 million dollars before the age of 40
The Times of India have a special feature article that includes brothers Divyank Turakhia, 32 and Bhavin Turakhia, 34 – the Internet entrepreneurs from India, known for their involvement in several domain ventures. Titled, “How to make $100 million before turning 40”, the article includes other successful Indian entrepreneurs, who achieved the feat of amassing […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Turakhia brothers: Millionaire investors focusing on gTLD domains
Brothers Bhavin Turakhia and Divyank Turakhia are barely into their thirties, and yet, the Indian entrepreneurs became multi-millionaires, after Endurance International Group acquired the web business part of Directi for approximately $100 million dollars. A fresh article in the Economic Times of India, details the early steps of the two brothers, beginning with a small […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Divyank Turakhia: OK, so I used Google Earth for latest ‘domainer trip’
Divyank Turakhia, founder and CEO of Skenzo and Directi, is known for his extensive travels around the world. When not managing the multi-million dollar domain empire, Turakhia enjoys to hop on a plane and take off. As a licensed pilot, he enjoys the physical freedom away from digital constraints. This time, however, Turakhia decided to […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Divyank Turakhia: Here’s how I destroy your wallet!
Divyank Turakhia, co-Founder & President at Directi, is a very likable guy. Despite his sizable wealth, Divyank behaves very down to earth at domainer gatherings, such as TRAFFIC. He also knows how to party. There is one problem though: Divyank’s known for ripping wallets, through the use of his business card. It’s made of sharp, gold-plated […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.The Cordoba Caper: Sylvester Stallone sued over Expendables script
According to Reuters, Sylvester Stallone is accused in a lawsuit of copying another writer’s screenplay to make “The Expendables“, a movie about mercenaries hired to defeat a military dictator. Reuters continues: The lawsuit was filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday by writer Marcus Webb, who said the screenplay for “The Expendables” is “strikingly similar […]
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