URLTrends Banned Malaysian?
Filed in: Malaysia, Web — January 26th, 2006
URLTrends.com banned access from Malaysia?
When I tried to get the latest URLTrends report, I got the following message:
You have been permanently banned from our site.
Reason: Too many fraudulent users from your region.
Another website banning Malaysia IP network blocks? Malaysians, what have you done?
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January 26th, 2006 at 7:26 pm
Fraudulent? How come it can be fraudulent?
January 26th, 2006 at 7:26 pm
many websites ban malaysia’s IP, or tmnet. It’s becuase either they don’t provide serivce for us, or they got massive DOSS attack from malaysian IP
January 26th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
Tmnet slow like **** still can DDOS? The overseas ppl will laugh us…
January 26th, 2006 at 7:49 pm
[...] Clicking a link to URLTrend from LiewCF brought me to a page that says: You have been permanently banned from our site. [...]
January 26th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
Malaysia is really making a bad name…sigh
January 26th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
We have about the same problem here in Israel, alot of free host services block Israelis, but know why? because Palestniens use the same IP range as we do, so if they do something wrong we pay =\ .
A.H
January 26th, 2006 at 9:07 pm
You have been permanently banned from our site.
Reason: Too many fraudulent users from your region.
i have same problem here in Turkey..
January 26th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
consider what israel have done to Palestin man. 10000 blocks from websites cannot buy a human life
January 26th, 2006 at 10:11 pm
yeah..that’s true..agree with you korokmu..hak3
January 26th, 2006 at 10:15 pm
Are we getting into politics Mr.koroksomething? i’m just saying why we’re getting blocked, and trust me..i have no problem talking with politics all day long, but if we’ll mix things up like you’re doing i’d rather talk about Madonna’s new CD, shall we?
pathetically amazing,
A.H
January 26th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
Another website ban malaysia IP?? OMG, not just liewc surfed website get the message, some website that i went in, same message come out also.. hmmm what’s going on in the world…
January 27th, 2006 at 1:55 am
[...] For a few days, i’ve been surfing other website as normal, looking out or sourcing out for some information that may be interesting. There is one website that i usually log into and was using it for quite some time. But suddenly for the last 3 days, i can’t seem to log-in as normal, so i might suspect maybe is the service provider that i am having now, is maybe have some problem on their network side so i leave it as it is until today, i bump into liewcf’s post that i normally read and view his work(he did a good job), as he mentioned also same incident that i facing. His issue or post came into my mind and i had a thought of it, it might be what he is trying to tell is true, Malaysia IP getting Banned by other country website. I hope this would not be true, as many of Malaysian had been using the Internet for sources, earning, information, business or a extra guiding tools to use on. [...]
January 27th, 2006 at 2:02 am
hey don’t blame on them man..
BTW, what’s with URLTrends.com?
January 27th, 2006 at 2:19 am
Guess the FBI or CIA should really come to Malaysia and check themselve…
January 27th, 2006 at 9:18 am
hey dude..!
don’t mess with the political thing here…
A.H : I dun know what is the meaning of your word (Palestinian bad?)
Korokmu : cool man….. i also think the same think as you think, but don’t take it too serious.
Emptyspace: wanna tell you about the urltrends but it’s no use man… already banned by them!
Malaysians…!!
Please don’t make things harder man…. be honest if you want Malaysia’s name clean!
Tq!
January 27th, 2006 at 9:49 am
thinks it’s only happened in indonesia,
…but the fact say it is not
cheers!
January 27th, 2006 at 10:29 am
Try using some aussie proxy to go to that site
January 27th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
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.
January 27th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Thank you for your reply, Joel Strellner.
January 27th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
omg… how did the owner of urltrends know about this post?
January 27th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
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.
January 27th, 2006 at 3:59 pm
Helo Malaysians…!!! (me also)
please avoid the bad thing…!
for those who are still with the “true” Malaysian, keep up a good work!
January 28th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
wow…yalo …how did the owner knows it so fast.
January 28th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
I think urltrends tracks all the links back to it
January 28th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
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.
January 28th, 2006 at 3:01 pm
Well, I am waiting for ban lifting.
January 28th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
Soon.
January 28th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
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..
February 2nd, 2006 at 9:51 am
[...] 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. [...]
February 2nd, 2006 at 12:33 pm
same thing happened over here in thailand.
maybe the whole south east asian region???
February 2nd, 2006 at 4:01 pm
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.
February 6th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
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 
February 19th, 2006 at 4:15 am
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,
February 27th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
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.
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.
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 :P), this company (Malaysian DUH) has a supercomputer so powerful that it can easily attack any mainframe. Again, its located remotely in *ehem* wont tell
February 28th, 2006 at 1:05 am
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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