What's wrong? Has the site been registered by somebody else? To check, you go to "www.tisco.com". From previous experience, you know that the site has nothing to do with the Tatas. It is, in fact, a site that allows you to register your own domain names and check whether a particular domain name is available. If the name that you are looking for has already been registered by somebody else, you can get the details of the registrant. So you type in "grasim" and choose the extension "com". The screen reads, "Domain is grasim.com. Domain is taken." You already know that. So you read further, "Registrant: Grasim Industries Ltd."

If you were to go the URL "www.merind.com" or to "www.capitaline.com", you would reach the same page as you did when you went to "www.grasim.com". You would easily realise that the content that you see is actually meant to be at the URL "www.capitaline.com". But for some unknown reason, it is also accessible through other names. Are there any other names that take you to the same page, you wonder? You decide to run a search on "capitaline" and for this, you go to "www.khoj.com". After all, this happens to be an "Indian search-engine". The results bring forth one more likely candidate and that is "www.mpchronicle.com". But it is futile to try accessing this URL for it takes you nowhere.

The registrants for "www.merind.com" and "www.mpchronicle.com", by the way, are Merind Limited and The Navbharat Group. Merind, of course, is now a part of Wockhardt. The common string that runs through all of "www.grasim.com", "www.merind.com", "www.mpchronicle.com" and "www.khoj.com" is Rajesh Jain of the IndiaWorld fame. While khoj is one of the properties that he sold to Satyam Infoway, the others are sites that are serviced by him. He is the administrative contact for all these sites.

That aside, the intention with which you logged on to "www.grasim.com" is served. The FAR-EAST Corporate Database allows you access to information regarding a large number of companies in the region. Only it is not free.