Some Chump Stole akshayshah.com

21 June 2008 in geekery, news | No comments

I just have to vent about this a little, and NC/AT seemed like an appropriate place to do it. I’ve been trying to get my mitts on akshay.com or akshayshah.com for years, but they’ve been off the market forever (curse those IIT grads and their tech-savviness). At least akshay.com’s being used by a legitimate company that’s a credit to the name (and has been in operation since I was in middle school, so I guess they were in line first). But I’m peeved that akshayshah.com’s been hijacked by some chump. He hasn’t actually bothered to put any real content up yet, but his GoDaddy placeholder page (forever immortalized as it looks today, courtesy of NC/AT) is one of the most vomit-inducing sites I’ve seen in a long time. At least he has a picture posted, so nobody will think that this travesty has anything to do with me. Seriously - who posts their request for a wife on a personal webpage without any information about themselves? Does this guy think that “smart, good looking, and immaculately presented” girls are just Googling “hot indian bachelor” to find themselves a husband? And, lest my astute readers have missed the subtle details, I have to point out that anyone who posts their photo under the name “sexyaksy” probably spends most of the day drooling in front of every reflective surface in sight (and - horror of horrors - actually going to his face-pic.com site reveals that he is, in fact, a model with only the most tenuous grasp of English).

Don’t get me wrong - I don’t have anything against online matchmaking, especially since some folks in my family have met fantastic people online. But my namesake’s page sounds a lot more like a sleazy Craigslist post than a legitimate personal ad. And this isn’t just standard-issue American (or, presumably, Australian) sleazy - this is the kind of coconut-oiled, over-cologned, shiny-shirt-wearing, mommy’s-boy, hey-baby-want-to-make-a-friendship sleazy that only the most dedicated Indian men can aspire to.

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