Day.az is an

Azerbaijani Azerbaijani may refer to: * Something of, or related to Azerbaijan * Azerbaijanis * Azerbaijani language See also * Azerbaijan (disambiguation) * Azeri (disambiguation) * Azerbaijani cuisine * Culture of Azerbaijan The culture of Azerbaijan ...

news portal established in 2003 by MP

Anar Mammadkhanov Anar Jamal oghlu Mammadkhanov ( az, Anar Camal oğlu Məmmədxanov, 20 July 1970, Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union – 23 April 2011, Baku, Azerbaijan) was a Member of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan, social activist and the captain of G ...

, trading as the Day.Az Media Company. The content is published in Russian (day.az), English (today.az) and in

(milli.az) since February 1, 2010.

Disruptions

The operators of Day.az claimed that they were the victim of

cyberattacks during the 2008 South Ossetia war During the Russo-Georgian War a series of cyberattacks swamped and disabled websites of numerous South Ossetian, Georgian, Russian and Azerbaijani organisations. The attacks were initiated three weeks before the shooting war began. Attacks ...

. On 11 August 2009, Day.az and

ANS Press The ANS Group of Companies is a news and broadcasting company in Azerbaijan. It was founded by three young Azeri journalists, brothers Vahid and Seyfulla Mustafayev in 1990. The Company name, ANS, derives from the first letters of ''Azerbaijan N ...

were disrupted, with day.az being inaccessible for almost two hours. On 18 February 2009, the portal became inaccessible, and on the following day the domains' day.az and today.az were removed from the

.az .az is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country, t ...

top-level domain. Reports concerning the cause ranged from speculation about "political mistakes", hackers, to creation of a new website. The sale process was triggered by the interview of Boris Berezovsky who is in exile in UK which angered Russian president at the time, Vladimir Putin, who demanded the shut-off the website. Later, the website was reopened by Trend News Agency management, loyal to the existing government.

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