Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad when attending the Bloggers United Malaysia (BUM) dialogue in Subang Jaya on May 16 told that his original domain name chedet.com (and most of other popular top-level-domain extension) were “kidnapped” by other and he was not in the mood of making payment to redeem it. As such, he has no choice but to resort to chedet.cc as his blog’s new domain name (though the same doesn’t sound nice).
Tun Dr Mahathir has also revealed that there are more than 19 millions hits on his blog since the 1st day he started his blog on 1 May 2008 till 1 May 2009. This has created the most visited blog in Malaysia within a short period of time.
He further said that he turm to blogging was because his voice was shut down by the government.
Recetly Mahathir’s blog accepts advertisement opportunity. The advertising fees can go as high as RM25,000.
Please watch the speech of Tun Dr Mahathir below:
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1 Mahathir’s Blog changed from chedet.com to chedet.cc - 19 Millions … | Malaysia Chronicle // May 19, 2009 at 1:36 am
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2 malaysiaclassifieds@yahoo.com // Jun 2, 2009 at 1:04 pm
very informative.
tun m has always been a crowd puller.
his name grabs attention.
regards,
alexander
3 John // Sep 10, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Mahathir now blames the government for censoring his speeches so he has to turn to blogging to get his views across. Under his regime people got the feeling that if they talk to much they might be carcerated under some draconian law. Look what happened to Irene Fernandez when she spoke up for the poor and defenceless. She was hauled up and her life made misery. It only shows that there are unjust laws as there are unjust men. Let God be the judge for all the atrocities done. Any amount of weeping and grinding of teeth on this earth can never be enough for the perpetrators of such gigantic injustices. They will have to look at their Creator straight in the face and answer for the injustices done. It is not like facing some earthly tribunal where by mere nuances and body language you may be able to escape. Woe to the man when that day arrives.
4 Faizal // Feb 15, 2010 at 2:48 pm
John. Pls read vernacular newspapers during his time before comment. As for Irene Fernandez, the she did it was wrong.
5 Roselyn // Mar 15, 2010 at 3:28 pm
I’m with Faizal on this.
6 Mohamed Sahr. E. Juanah // Aug 30, 2010 at 9:50 pm
I am currently a student at UPM doing my masters from Sierra Leone. I do heard about Mahathir when i was home but after watching his biography today i really admired him and hope we have such a great leader like him in Africa. I believe my current head of state is in the same direction, only if he could seek Dr’s idea will be great for Sierra Leone.
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