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Raka poshi

Lady finger peak

Nanga parbat

Kharphcho fort

Skardu view from top

Sind river near skrdu

Pakistan's largest battery

My First Blog Post

Testing posterous. Should I replace my sweet cron based home page with this?

Pakistan Flag using only XHTML and CSS3

This is my try of making Pakistan flag in CSS3 and XHTML only. Using power of scaling, rotation and rounded corners it wasn't too difficult for me :)

Screenshot of flag rendered in safari

Flag from Wikipedia
View the results: http://pages.i.com.pk/pakistan-flag-in-xhtml-css3/ It should work in Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Inspiration: http://www.codesquid.co.uk/workshops/flags-of-the-world-css3/

PKNIC Domain Expiry Policy

A few months back, I was looking for some COOL .pk domain for my personal page. I was fortunate enough that I got a domain name of my choice and It was about to expire in a month. According to PKNIC policy, they hold the domain for 2 weeks after expiry period.

In the event of non-payment of domain maintenance fee by due date PKNIC in its sole discretion shall de-activate such un-paid domain and offer this expired domain to third party for re-registration on pre-payment on a first come first served basis, after a hold period of two weeks after domain de-activation. The defaulting domain owner can pay and re-activate the expired domain within the hold period. Ref: http://pk5.pknic.net.pk/pk5/pgPolicy.PK

I noted down the expected expiry date plus hold period. Luckily, domain was not renewed by then. I went to register this domain but I was told that you cannot register this domain until PKNIC releases it. This domain was registered after a month of expiry + hold period by someone else :( Recently, I found another cool domain name. This time the domain was expired in June :P but again not available for registration. I was told by one of the PKNIC partners that they release the domain whenever they want to :S I decided to calculate the average time of release for each domain. I collected the list of more than 5000 PREMIUM .PK DOMAIN NAMES and wrote down a script to check their status. The results were totally random :S. PKNIC decides fate of each domain individually. There is a domain which was expired in September 2008 but it is still not available. Please check the status of lit.com.pk

Solution:

PKNIC is not going to respond to our emails and phone calls. I have written down a script which keeps on checking the status of my favorite domains and emails me when they are available ;) Feel free to use the script: http://pknicnotifier.appspot.com/