Comments on: URLTrends Banned Malaysian?

By: LiewCF.com

LiewCF.com — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:05:46 +0000

UrlTrends Lifted Ban on Malaysian

Last month, UrlTrends banned Malaysian and residents from other Asia countries from accessing its Trend Report. The ban has been removed now.

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By: ShahZ

ShahZ — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 07:28:46 +0000

Duh, actually, its just these Malaysian’s wannabe hackers trying to prove themselves being good in the net. Malaysians has a very bad record on the net. Last time, DalNet banned Malaysian IPs, lots of sites have been doing this for the past few years. I mean, cmon you guys. You get to learn some new hacking skills from someone and use it undoubtedly. What a noob. These guys even think that masking will keep them away and that is their protection measures. DUH! IP masking is a one-eye game for cyber-police.
As to answer Bee’s post: “Tmnet slow like **** still can DDOS? The overseas ppl will laugh us…” Well, its TMNet who is slow, not the server which is attacking. No good hacker will use a Malaysian connected server to launch a DDOS attack. They use powerful mainframes remotely located in US, UK, etc which use T3 connections. They launch it from here but of course, its the server who does the job. So you cant say that slow connections cant DDOS.
If you use the server here (I wont tell where I work ), this company (Malaysian DUH) has a supercomputer so powerful that it can easily attack any mainframe. Again, its located remotely in *ehem* wont tell and connection there is satellite. Crazy stuff in other words. So, if lets say I launch an attack from here, even if the server is located in a remote area, it will log my IP, even my MAC address -.-” so not only they know from where I launched the attack, they also know from which computer I did it.

By: db

db — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 20:15:13 +0000

it all about db query,
so , the owner should limit 1-5 search query for 1 ip in one day,or simply follow what rapidshare does,

By: Maddy

Maddy — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 07:15:56 +0000

Quite sad to see that Singapore also happens to be on that list.. So our Malaysian brothers (and sisters) can take heart that we are with them

By: Jee

Jee — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:01:35 +0000

Impressive tracking Joel, I would suggest to change the wordings during this transaction period..

Saying that ‘You have been permanently banned from our site’ is rather straight forward and could create confusions with something you never intended.

Cheers.

By: denis

denis — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 04:33:52 +0000

same thing happened over here in thailand.
maybe the whole south east asian region???

By: blogHelper » Malaysians: Bye Bye URLTrends

blogHelper » Malaysians: Bye Bye URLTrends — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 01:51:06 +0000

[...] To tell the truth, I only noticed that URLTrends had banned Malaysian IP ranges when the news was reported by LiewCF a few days back. Try visiting URLTrends.com and you’ll see this: You have been permanently banned from our site. [...]

By: David Cheong

David Cheong — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:16:02 +0000

Wow.. that was sure a fast response and reply from Joel. Hmm, is Joel, keep his Internet Explorer open all the time and viewing this Liewcf post?

cool..

By: Joel Strellner

Joel Strellner — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:11:20 +0000

Soon.

By: LcF

LcF — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:01:17 +0000

Well, I am waiting for ban lifting.

By: Joel Strellner

Joel Strellner — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:22:59 +0000

We have a new tool that is being developed that can track when sites mention specific keywords or phrases. Obviously our site name is being used while testing.

It tracks via a traditional spider that browses the internet and an RSS feed searcher.

This new tool will likely be released sometime in the next 6 or 8 months.

What, did you think we weren’t going to add more new tools and features to our site? Just wait until the next version of our Trend Reports are realeased.

Sincerely,
Joel Strellner, Owner
UrlTrends, LLC.

By: LcF

LcF — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 04:48:23 +0000

I think urltrends tracks all the links back to it

By: Malaysia Classifieds

Malaysia Classifieds — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 04:26:41 +0000

wow…yalo …how did the owner knows it so fast.

By: ombak

ombak — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:59:37 +0000

At this time I can not give an idea of exactly when the sitewide ban will be lifted and access will be restored, or the exact functionality of the site after it has been lifted.
Once again, I apologize for the inconveniences that this has caused.
Sincerely,
Joel Strellner, Owner
UrlTrends, LLC.

Helo Malaysians…!!! (me also)

please avoid the bad thing…!
for those who are still with the “true” Malaysian, keep up a good work!

By: korokmu

korokmu — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:35:17 +0000

it’s nothing impossible on the net.

to A.H: did you hate Palestniens that much. How did you know that THEY do something wrong? Maybe your neighbour or YOU could do something wrong. And others will pay for that.

Try to learn not to point at other people. Look at ourself first. I don’t try to talk about politics here, but your attitude made me feel uncomfortable.

By: Katana

Katana — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:03:32 +0000

omg… how did the owner of urltrends know about this post?

By: LcF

LcF — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 06:23:22 +0000

Thank you for your reply, Joel Strellner.

By: Joel Strellner

Joel Strellner — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:54:06 +0000

Hello,

I am the owner of UrlTrends and I would like to personally apologize for having to ban your country from our site.

Banning Malaysia, and I am not proud to say, 29 other countries was an absolute last resort that we were forced into doing. In many cases we tried to work directly with the abuser/fraudulent user to get them to properly use our services. However, in most cases this failed.

Over the past few months fraudulent/abusive users had climbed to occurring nearly 100 times a day. This was just so resource intensive that we had to do something drastic about it.

While this has solved the problem in the entirety (not a single fraudulent order or abusive user has occurred since deploying the ban), it is also temporary. We are working on a system that will still allow users from Malaysia and the 29 other countries to use our services, but some features of our site will still be restricted, limited or on a per user approval procedure.

At this time I can not give an idea of exactly when the sitewide ban will be lifted and access will be restored, or the exact functionality of the site after it has been lifted.

Once again, I apologize for the inconveniences that this has caused.

Sincerely,
Joel Strellner, Owner
UrlTrends, LLC.

PS: This ban does not effect any of the sites that we are monitoring. Trend Reports are still updated for every url in our systems.

By: Leow

Leow — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 02:29:45 +0000

Try using some aussie proxy to go to that site

By: fp

fp — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:49:48 +0000

thinks it’s only happened in indonesia,
…but the fact say it is not

cheers!