Comments on: Is Advertlets Serious About Their Business?

By: Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:52:40 +0000

What I am really pissed off about is that the code is always open to malicious attack. For it not to function is one thing. What happens is whenever anything wrong is with advertlets, all blogs carrying their script goes down with them.

Server load too much- sorry, everyone’s blogs will not load.
Malicious opening of other sites- sorry, it was our advertiser or someone else, not us , just because it came thru our code, well, but we didn’t do it. What stupidity is that?

And now this- we didn’t renew our domain name so our stupidly written code is going to shut down and redirect everyone’s site to the domain registrar’s site. Now think about this seriously people … if their code, which sits on our blogs, can do that in one fell swoop- think of the damage someone can inflict.

I had recently written about removing the code and am glad I kept it off my main sites after advertlets asked me to put the ads back up for testing purposes. My other sites were down- on the same day I did an ad campaign. Yeesh!!!!!!!!! (http://entrepreneur.com.sg/wordpress/?p=136)

By: Zit Seng

Zit Seng — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:09:49 +0000

Hi Advertlets Support:

The DNSStuff link you provided shows “right now” that the domain is still expired. The nameservers shown in the record is information in the WHOIS database (and which is expired); It is not the same as NS records in the DNS.

You will notice by querying any .COM authoritative servers that they are not updated. (Yes, still not updated right now.)

By: Cowboy Caleb – Advertlets Ushers In 2008 With A Royal Screw-Up

Cowboy Caleb – Advertlets Ushers In 2008 With A Royal Screw-Up — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:01:43 +0000

[...] domain names etc is basic bread & butter for a company like Adverlets. You have to wonder, what they are focusing on if they can’t even get something simple like this [...]

By: Supporter

Supporter — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:55:41 +0000

Then what you want them to do? Go to nuffnang lor complain so much

By: Zit Seng

Zit Seng — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:32:09 +0000

The point is that right now, the DNS root servers and authoritative for the .COM TLD have NOT been updated. There are no changes to be propagated if the root servers themselves are not updated. If Advertlets has renewed their domain, then their domain registrar is not very on about effecting the changes.

(Ok granted some registrars are slow. DNS cannot be partially working if the root servers themselves are not updated.)

By: firdooze

firdooze — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:25:10 +0000

I think it takes time for the DNS to propagate. I guess that was what they intended to do by asking people to comment.

By: Advertlets Support

Advertlets Support — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:18:54 +0000

DNS changes take time to propogate. Hence, those who are either using an older hosts reference or the latest one will see the website without issue.

Try a lookup at: http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=advertlets.com
Which shows the latest nameservers. A user in Klang, Malaysia has reported that it is showing up on his side, and we expect other users to be experiencing full functionality soon.