Bodis is closing the account(s) without any notification

[BuyBrandWeb.com]

Bodis did this to me twice. They didn't report stats for the last couple of days and I have contacted their support to see what was happened and here is the response I got from Bodis.

Hello Praveen,

I've just taken a look at your Bodis account and I'm afraid it has been flagged by our Tier1 ad provider after an excessive level of click spam was reported in conjunction with your domains.

Unfortunately we've been given no choice but comply with this suspension request. We will be unable to continue to support your domain names on the Bodis network moving forward.

We do apologize for bringing you this bad news.

Thank you.
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If an excessive level of click spam was reported in conjunction with my domains then don't show the clicks and revenue but suspending an account won't justify their move!

I have listed more than 300 domains so obviously, they should expect few clicks generated by spammy links and they might ask us to remove the domains. I'm unable to login and lost all my parking stats for my domains. I have lost track of all these 300 domains and it is really a painful job to move all the domains to another parking company.

My account had generated $40 USD to $60 USD/ monthly and mostly by 4 to 7 domains. They didn't pay for the last month and simply closed my account.

I was checking with other domainers and they did the same to others.

I never recommend anyone to use Bodis anymore and you simply lose all your parking stats if you use Bodis.com

@matt_bodis @TroyBodis How will you justify this?

 

[MapleDots]

Read all messages from Bodis- They suspend or close your account even if you are not involved in any fraud and they don't want to listen to you or don't want to give an opportunity to explain. By the end of the day, we must lose all parking stats like I lost my last two years parking stats!

From their response here they are really trying to re-open the accounts

 

[Internet.Domains]

From their response here they are really trying to re-open the accounts

Response and action are different. From the sound of it the response was good, but the action, not so much.

 

[matt_bodis]

Apologies for the delay on responding - we've been working with all parties today to try to best resolve this issue.

All in all, 11 accounts have been re-instated. Login/payout privileges have been re-instated for these user accounts. Some accounts were not qualified for re-instatement as we have identified fraudulent activity on the account (eg: user self clicking his/her ads) which contributed to the click spam issue. We manage nearly 80,000 user accounts, and block accounts regularly for fraudulent activity. This took a bit more time to unravel as on the same day and about the same time we've also blocked users for activities such as self clicking ads, etc.

We're also working with our upstream on better handling the click spam issue in relation to these 11 accounts. We believe we identified a better way to handle this issue which would not affect the account/domains. Once we're able to resolve that issue, we'll be able to re-instate parking privilege and the accounts would fully return to normal standing.

This is going to be a bit of a process, so please bare with us. This is an issue we're working with the upstream on resolving and unfortunately it probably won't be an over night process.

Direct communication from us to these 11 users will follow in the coming days.

Another update here will follow in the coming days or week, once we have an update on the issue.

We're sorry how this entire situation transpired. We're going to try to make this up to the user affected. Please stay tuned for an upcoming update, hopefully in a matter of days.

 

[MapleDots]

Response and action are different. From the sound of it the response was good, but the action, not so much.

Looks like they are still actively working on it, see post above.

 

[anantj]

I've had the same happen to me recently. No recourse. Account suspended due to one domain. I don't know how as an owner, I can prevent click spam. If Bodis had only given a warning, I'd have removed the domain from their network. Also lost my parking revenues for the last payout

 

[anantj]

In this scenario, the suspension of the accounts does NOT mean your account won't be paid. We simply cannot accept that mix of domain(s) for time being due to the above mentioned reasons. I think we'll have a different procedure on these types of scenarios moving forward. While I believe we notified all accounts of the suspension, we do apologize for the way the message was conveyed. For that we apologize. I think we've learned our lesson here and will definitely change the way we handle these issues going forward.

Hey Matt,

Support informed me that nothing will be done for my account including any pending earnings. Nor did I get any warning or notice of the suspension. I only found out as I was unable to login to my Bodis account or reset the password. When I reached out to support, I was informed of the suspension. You might want to check with your support team about the accuracy of the claim that accounts were notified of the suspension.

Edit: Saw Matt's update after I posted this. Leaving this intact for context.

 

[private123]

You might want to check with your support team about the accuracy of the claim that accounts were notified of the suspension..

It's not domainer friendly platform

1 year's ago also my account closed without any notification.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

At ParkingCrew suspension scheme is another...
They don't block accounts when such domains were detected but just blacklist those domains...
Even Blacklisted folder is displayed in their UI.

 

[manpreet]

Bodis did this to me twice. They didn't report stats for the last couple of days and I have contacted their support to see what was happened and here is the response I got from Bodis.

Hello Praveen,

I've just taken a look at your Bodis account and I'm afraid it has been flagged by our Tier1 ad provider after an excessive level of click spam was reported in conjunction with your domains.

Unfortunately we've been given no choice but comply with this suspension request. We will be unable to continue to support your domain names on the Bodis network moving forward.

We do apologize for bringing you this bad news.

Thank you.
​

If an excessive level of click spam was reported in conjunction with my domains then don't show the clicks and revenue but suspending an account won't justify their move!

I have listed more than 300 domains so obviously, they should expect few clicks generated by spammy links and they might ask us to remove the domains. I'm unable to login and lost all my parking stats for my domains. I have lost track of all these 300 domains and it is really a painful job to move all the domains to another parking company.

My account had generated $40 USD to $60 USD/ monthly and mostly by 4 to 7 domains. They didn't pay for the last month and simply closed my account.

I was checking with other domainers and they did the same to others.

I never recommend anyone to use Bodis anymore and you simply lose all your parking stats if you use Bodis.com

@matt_bodis @TroyBodis How will you justify this?

Hi any further action to this, did you get your account reinstated ?

 

[BuyBrandWeb.com]

Hi any further action to this, did you get your account reinstated ?

Sorry for the delayed response. I was on vacation last week.
Here is the update: They have enabled the access to Bodis account(didn't remove suspension) and they have sent July 2019 payment last week!

 

[manpreet]

Sorry for the delayed response. I was on vacation last week.
Here is the update: They have enabled the access to Bodis account(didn't remove suspension) and they have sent July 2019 payment last week!

Ok, thanks for the update.

 

[Amandine]

It happened to me today, after I added a new acquisition (from market) to my 2000 domains names.
I found out after I could not login in the site.

Then I filed a ticket and several hours later, the message I received from Bodis is the automatic message :

Thank you for contacting us. I've just taken a look at your Bodis account and unfortunately it appears to have been flagged recently after several of your domains received some very large spikes in false ad clicks (83 ad clicks). It is against our Terms of Service for you to click on our ads.

Subsequently, your Bodis account has now been closed and any earnings generated as a result of this low quality traffic will need to be withheld.

I'm afraid that we will be unable to continue to support your domains on the Bodis network moving forward.

I don't event know what are the domains involved in the problem.
Of course I never clicked on any of my ad in my domains name. Like the others I do not know how to prevent this.