Its working and with the new owner- Ilgar Huseynov, director of Trend online newspaper.

Day.az abruptly stopped its work on February 16th for ‘unknown’ reasons, and while the operation of the site was to resume on February 25th, the site remained non-accessible for that day.

However, it re-opened today (February 26) and is working.

Some thought on this whole incident:
- Why the portal was sold to begin with?
- If there were plans to sell the portal form the very beginning then why it wasn’t explained or announced when the website first shut down and even before it was going to shut down? The editors could have continued working while the management changed hands?
- Why was it all kept in dark and on the website it said it was closed for technical reasons? Does changing management of the website has technical sides to it?

I don’t know the answers but maybe soon it will become clear?

http://flyingcarpetsandbrokenpipelines.blogspot.com/2009/02/dayaz-is-back.html

When day.az shut down, its ‘supposed’ opening day was today- 25th of February. But while both of the sites (English and Azerbaijani versions) still have “the site is temporarily unavailable” announcement, I am afraid, it is going to stay unavailable and not just temporarily.

Yesterday (February 24th), Radio Azadliq (azadliq.org) published a news entry, stating the faith of the two news portals, titled “The day.az and today.az projects have been sold” (http://www.azadliq.org/content/Article/1498539). This was the statement made by the Editor-in- Chief, Elnur Baimov. While the faith of the rest of the staff is unknown, Baimov himself will no longer work with the new team.

(More posts to come on the developments)

http://flyingcarpetsandbrokenpipelines.blogspot.com/2009/02/end-to-dayaz-story.html

http://www.azadliq.org/content/Article/1498539.html

The site’s editor says he will not be working on any new projects and it is his uncertain whether other staff will.