The inconvenience to the masses was that since Advertlets uses a javascript implementation to publish their ads (the code is part of the page for those who don't speak geek), all the sites that had the Advertlets code also became inaccessible or were redirected to a domain expired page. There are about two hundred blog entries about the boo-boo according to technorati. (sorry we're not putting up the blog links because the last time we did, it caused the particular blog to get shutdown for using too much bandwidth!)
The domain name has already been renewed, but only for a year. We'll probably have a similar entry again next year. What we don't seem to understand is the domain would only cost around USD10 at most to renew a year, why not just renew it for 10 years and save everyone the trouble?
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Name: artismalaysiaku
Comment: aiya .... what happen maa.... i though my browser has spy.... i had reinstall my firefox but it's not working either...
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Posted: 2008-01-13 00:28:37
Name: lutfee
Comment: i thought my coding problem. that was their mistake, make my blog redirected to alien space... big name but ....
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Posted: 2008-01-07 20:44:45
Name: Jayce
Comment: Aiyo... It is still down at Sungai Petani le...
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Posted: 2008-01-07 20:10:59
Name: thezmen
Comment: even microsoft forgot to renew their domain a few years ago.
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Posted: 2008-01-07 19:58:39
Name: sunriser
Comment: if they can forget such a simple thing, i can't imagine what else they will forget after this ...
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Posted: 2008-01-07 18:27:11
Name: benjamin and yus
Comment: this is so worrying leh... will the same fate happen to our local advertising companys ?
i wonder
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Posted: 2008-01-07 11:42:30
Name: gaman
Comment: From whois, it appears that the domain name has been renewed until 2010
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Posted: 2008-01-06 23:19:49
Name: speedrider
Comment: they even did not update their JOIN US button's link...
