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11-23-2007, 01:24 PM
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| NamePros Regular Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Las Vegas, NV
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>traceroute ns1.fabulous.com ... 12 204.70.203.138 (204.70.203.138) 80.767 ms 80.681 ms 80.027 ms 13 csr11-ve240.santaclarasc8.savvis.net (66.35.194.82) 81.940 ms 80.604 ms 8 3.055 ms 14 ns1.fabulous.com (64.15.205.211) 80.003 ms 80.753 ms 80.030 ms >traceroute ns2.fabulous.com ... 12 204.70.200.22 (204.70.200.22) 81.027 ms 80.739 ms 80.050 ms 13 csr11-ve240.santaclarasc8.savvis.net (66.35.194.82) 80.904 ms 81.170 ms 81.059 ms 14 ns2.fabulous.com (64.15.205.212) 81.014 ms 80.629 ms 80.910 ms Does this sound like geographic and topological diversity in name service to you??? Good observation sdsinc. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/parking-and-traffic-monetization/318378-new-revolution-domain-parking-here-bodis.html Marc
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11-23-2007, 02:21 PM
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| NamePros Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Canada / Quebec
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| I'm also out... Had +- 1500 visits/month with a CTR of 33%.. I guess my traffic is bad traffic... Anyways... I think i'll sell everything and leave that business...
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11-23-2007, 02:22 PM
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| NamePros Regular  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sunny Central Coast, Metal Rocker USA
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We once again appoligize for disabling your account. Unfortunately, our upstream ad providers have been pushing us to keep ONLY high-quality traffic on the network in order to maintain our partnership throughout the following months. Due to high demand, we have re-enabled the "Domain Management" area in your Bodis.com account. You may access your domain names to copy any customized data for your personal use. Please keep in mind, you still may not add or park any domain names on the network. We would like to remind you once again, that all past earnings will be paid out to you during our next payment cycle, December 15th. Please be sure that your Payment Information on-file is correct. Your earnings summary and detailed payment information will be sent out to you in the following weeks. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=318378 Once again, we'd like to mention, that our click spam rates have been high over the past months. Our only choice to maintaining a partnership with our ad providers was to disable any accounts that did not have high-quality traffic. In order for us to maintain our partnership with our ad providers throughout the future months was to improve the network fraud and spam click rate by the end of November, hence our immediate actions to disable user accounts without warning. We too are disappointed for disabling your account and many other accounts. Unfortunately, it was the only choice we had to maintain our business. Please contact support@bodis.com for any questions or concerns. Thank you for your understanding. Sincerely, Bodis.com Support Team | ||||
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11-23-2007, 03:24 PM
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| New Member Join Date: Jul 2007
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 | As a newbie, I was hooked into Bodis and I thought it best to give it a chance as my investment wasn't too much at all. Got the email and thought, what a bummer. Either a man's venture has collapsed and he is feeling pretty bad and pretty low at the moment or it was all a scam and I'm glad I only made just over $2 since signing up at the beginning of Bodis. I only had four domains, but I would have had many many more if things hadn't turned out like this. Never mind, it's not me that has to live with the truth, whatever that is. I would say good luck to Matt, but I don't believe in luck. We all make our own luck and if Matt wants to make his luck like this, then....go for it dude (if it's a scam, otherwise, pick yourself up, brush down and go make millions somwhere else dude). I'll make my own luck in a much more respectful way. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=318378 No harm done on my part and no hard feelings. |
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11-23-2007, 03:36 PM
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| NamePros Regular  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Canada
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| This may sound a little harsh and critical but I am speaking in general terms and not directing this to anyone in particular. It is simply my feeling about this whole matter and how it is affecting everyone posting here. I am a little surprised at all excitement this Bodis stuff has created. I am also surprised at the way people allow themselves to be victimized. I mean come on, really. Some young fella comes along and says he will "revolutionize" the domain parking industry and will single handily out-do all the established, well staffed and equiped businesses already providing this service. Bingo,everyone jumps aboard invests all their time, energy and investment into it. Its one thing to put a few domains of insignificance to try it out and see what it is all about or spend some free time playing around with setting up the parking pages. But we got people here saying this is a business for them yet they entrust everything to the latest kid announcing his new venture that has their benefit in mind. Aren't there enough Registerflys and Kiddie Hosts doing this already to suggest that caution be used when operating your "business" or making important investments. If I was a car dealer I surely wouldn't entrust my car repairs to a backyard mechanic. Whats worse is some would consider asking for reinstatement. Sounds to me like some people never learn or else are begging for more punishment. Some have mentioned sueing and who knows it may be successful. However if someone sold me oceanfront property in Nevada and I tried to sue it would create a chuckle in court. I do not see this any different. Whether a pure scam or a shady business operation the routine is the same. 1)New exciting scheme is announced. No more having to put up with dealing with the big bully you are use to. Get in early and reap the rewards. 2)People jump in head first without checking for rocks. 3)Things aren't happening the way they were told it would. 4)Everyone is reassured that things will improve. 5)We Believe!We Believe! 6)Things get worse. 7)We have faith. Whats the matter with all you non-believers don't you see what a fine job so-and-so is doing for us -after all how do all great acheivements happen without a gamble? Thank you so much for all you are doing on our behalf. 8)The lights go out and everyone is left cursing. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=318378 9)Despite the clear result there always remain a few unconvinced hangers-on. This happens time and again. If you don't believe me follow the progress of the revolutionary green zap which declared it would change the payment processsor business since Paypal was a greedy monster fo asking 3% fees to run their business. In summation, I don't think it is a sound practice to invest too heavily in unproven startups especially one man basement operations. They can be fun and sometimes worth a small gamble but don't expect it to to be a winner very often. Parking companies may seem to have the upper hand but when you look at the fact they have staff,overhead,and all the other things that make it all function such as hosting,accounting,etc is it unreasonable if they share the advertising proceeds. After all the domain owner only has buy the domain and point his nameservers. Of course I am suggesting a fare share but the domain owner shouldn't really expect 98% either. While I am not calling Bodis as a scam as this juncture I am certain of its inability to continue. Again lets face it, if all is as reported, there is a fourth rate ad server telling it to jump and it jumps,lie down and it lies down. To be successfull as a parking service a company has to be able to provide some leverage by saying we having a significant domain pool,do you want our business or do we go elsewhere. Ask.com does not have an advertising base that can provide any kind of relevant ads for serious parking the way that Yahoo and Google can provide. You're fine as long as you advertise credit cards and you can usually get a link for car insurance in Alaska. But if your site is about Argyle socks, all your sock links take you to some online poker ads. In turn the ads don't convert and the ad provider cries " poor quality traffic". Eventually for bodis the end comes with a letter something like:
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11-23-2007, 04:25 PM
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| Domains my Dominion  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Web 1.0
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Code: ping -a ns1.bodis.com Reply from 208.75.248.90: bytes=32 time=125ms TTL=112 ping -a ns2.bodis.com Reply from 208.75.248.91: bytes=32 time=125ms TTL=111
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11-23-2007, 04:58 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Jaipur, India
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????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=318378 Could you (or Marc) explain these figures for the non techie folks? I'm definitely intrigued but can't make heads or tails of it. | ||||
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11-23-2007, 05:17 PM
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| NamePros Regular   Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Salt Lake
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| The IP address identifys a computers location on the internet by connection. The fact that the last number is only one digit apart means that the nameservers are probably bieng hosted at the same place or even on the same machine. That means if that hub or machine goes down the domains it directs to will be unreachable. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=318378 Good stability requires redundancy and having the second nameserver hosted somewhere else provides for a backup. What they're saying is that the hosting plan bodis is running on isn't first rate. Thats also why .de names weren't able to be parked on bodis. The .de tld requires nameservers to be in different locations for stability. On another note, I have a question for matt. Suppose some of these 3000 kicked accounts later wanted to sign back up for bodis. Say after a few months or a year when they've have time to aquire some better quality traffic names... Are you going to give the 100% rev share back if you re-admit them? |
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11-23-2007, 05:34 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Jaipur, India
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11-23-2007, 06:27 PM
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| NamePros Regular Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Las Vegas, NV
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I was surprised that a well known high quality monetizer like Fabulous.com is not following recommended best practice in setting up their system. I was not even remotely surprised by bodis.com, but fabulous.com was a big surprise. There are at least two things to consider: 1.) keep critical services like dns geographically separated, so natural problems like storms do not take out the system... or a bomb... ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=318378 2.) keep critical services like dns on distinct portions of the net from a "topological perspective". That means on different "subnets" (groups of ip addresses). Routing is done by nets/subnets so "router tables" do not have to deal with every ip on the net. Basically this means that the two name servers should be connected to the net in different ways, regardless of geography. Both geographic and topological diversity are important. The traceroute utility traces the path from your host to the target host. The target hosts in this case were the two dns servers ns1.fabulous.com and ns2.fabulous.com. When you connect to anything (like a web server) on the net, your connection travels through a large number of "routers" along the way that tell your packets where to go. In this case there were several routers along the way before I get to ns1.fabulous.com (14 steps). What was interesting was that the last router before ns1.fabulous.com and ns2.fabulous.comm was the same. The fact that the two numbers were only one number apart raised suspicion, but it does not mean that they were on the same network (but a good hint). The same router in the next to last step adds more ammo to that suspicion. I could do further detective work to nail it, but my *guess* is that we have enough to raise serious suspicion. ...snip... (correction/deletion - thanks Patrick) This relates to what I was talking about in another thread about my work on DARPA Ultralog, which is a system for battle-hardened survivable distributed computing. bodis.com: no surprise Fabulous.com: I am Shocked, Shocked I tell you (to borrow from a Humphrey Bogart movie) Marc
__________________ . (Just another mathematician obsessed with proving P != NP -- that is a math joke for job security) Smile! In a few short years you will realize that these are the good old days!
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11-23-2007, 07:12 PM
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| NamePros Regular  Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Canada
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????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=318378 Doubt it. Although the idea was ' bear with me through the beta stage and this is your reward' so 100% should be available to anyone wanting back in.
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11-23-2007, 07:58 PM
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| NamePros Regular  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Florida
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11-23-2007, 08:14 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Jaipur, India
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????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=318378 As businesses, even most domain registrars are small when you compare them to other online businesses. Only GoDaddy and eNom stand somewhere in terms of customer base and profits. Moniker, Fabulous, etc., while being great at what they do, are hardly known outside of the domaining circles. Moniker still has an Alexa rank in the xxxxx range I believe, whereas GoDaddy is in the top 600. So I'm not really surprised that these companies don't have geographically separate servers. These businesses are still small, with only one (or at most, two) offices. | ||||
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11-23-2007, 08:32 PM
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| NamePros Regular  Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Bronx.NY
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 Marc,You might be interested in this from a recent ICAAN Blog post entitled: "There are not 13 root servers". Excerpts: "...there are many hundreds of root servers at over 130 physical locations in many different countries. There are twelve organisations responsible for the overall coordination of the management of these servers. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=318378 So where does the 13 number come from? There is a technical design limitation that means thirteen is a practical maximum to the number of named authorities in the delegation data for the root zone" and "...when we think of servers, we probably think of physical machines that sit on a desk, or perhaps lined up in racks in a specialised computing facility. By any measure, there are not 13 servers as there is not a correlation between the number of named authorities, and the number of servers." More here and a Root Server map: http://blog.icann.org/?p=235 I'm not a techie. I just remembered reading this a couple of weeks ago. Thought it might be of interest to you. Now back to the Bodis fiasco  Patrick | ||||
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11-23-2007, 08:54 PM
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| NamePros Regular  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Cambridge, MA
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| Nice one Microguy. Bodis really fudged it. I know it was sorta forced by Ask.com, but the guy really should have given everyone payouts or something before he terminated the accounts. So much for a revolution in domain parking. Hah.
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11-23-2007, 09:08 PM
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| NamePros Regular Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Las Vegas, NV
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| Thanks Patrick. I rep'ed. I will go back and correct the original post. I found this comment interesting: "In human metrics, its not so long, when having 13 server sites was still a truth. It may be eons if evaluated in Internet years, though." Great to see things are much more stable than I thought. I run my own dns for a lot of my stuff, and good to see that there is now a lot more behind the hints file. While reading this link you gave I ran into this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root And the part that caught my attention was one of the alt-roots has a Chinese .com and .net equivalent in traditional Chinese and punycode: (.xn--55qx5d or .公司 ) for .com (alt-root) (.xn--io0a7i or .网络 ) for .net (alt-root) Edit: I didn't even know they were doing that in the alt-root. Who knows if it works. It is the alt root. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=318378 Marc
__________________ . (Just another mathematician obsessed with proving P != NP -- that is a math joke for job security) Smile! In a few short years you will realize that these are the good old days!
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11-23-2007, 09:10 PM
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| NamePros Regular  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Warwick, RI, USA
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| Bodis personal update. On the 21st: I got the email. Could still log into Bodis, but the Manage screen was no longer available. Stats updated for previous day's income. In order to not burn any future 100% revenue bridges, I PM'ed Matt like he asked. 22nd: No response from Matt But the stats updated with yesterday's worth of income despite most domains were returning "Domain not found in any user account." message. Suspect not all of my domains were turned off at once. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=318378 23rd (today): No PM from Matt. But strangely the Manage screen is back! Figuring I got reinstated, I checked my email, nothing there either from Bodis. The stats screen is now showing all zeros for yesterday. Strange goings on indeed. |
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11-23-2007, 09:12 PM
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11-23-2007, 09:14 PM
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| NamePros Regular Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Warwick, RI, USA
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Ah. I assume to give people the opportunity to save off customizations then.
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11-24-2007, 12:03 AM
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| Account Closed Join Date: Sep 2007
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| I entered the whole domain name business offlate ....just 4 months back. twentytwentyworldcup.com was the 1st domain i ever bought, optimized it and parked it at bodis and gained 900USD in revenue via bodis. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=318378 I am one of the victims of the recent kill accounts with less revenue campaign So, 1)Like to thank Matt for his program 2)I think he deserves some pity from every1 considering the fact that this is his 1st venture of this kind. 3)Matt, think before you leap, this could have easily been avoided by only accepting regular members from namepros to 1st try out your service for atleast a 1 year period. Neways....hope everything turns up fine and old users will be welcome again with 100% share. |
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11-24-2007, 02:45 AM
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| NamePros Regular Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Florida
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| Why is it only the people who have been here for a very short period with hardly no posts, seem to be the ones sticking up for him? Didn't bodis come out before you even joined NamePros? How did you hear about it? 900$ in 4 months for twentytwentyworldcup.com ? What am I missing here ?
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