What is Nuffnang Glitterati? It’s an exclusive program from Nuffnang. I received 3 emails from Nuffnang about this program. After some reading, for those who registered on Nuffnang, you will be automatically included into this IF (Yes, they have IF!!!) you do NOT have any ads from any other ad network that originates from South East Asia.

I think I’m pretty safe (Am I?????????) on this since I have removed Advertlets from both of my blogs. I only have Google Ads. I don’t think Google Ads is considered as the network from South East Asia. Right?

You can know more about this program from HERE. Oh, before I forgot, this Glitterati will take effect automatically from the 13th of January 2008, just 4 days from now. Will it increase my earning from Nuffnang? I’m not sure. Let’s see……

I got this email just now, from Josh Lim, Advertlets with the subject “Advertlets.com – We’re Sorry”. This email explain what is happening for the last 2 days on their domain issue.

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“Josh Lim @ Advertlets”

Hi,

This is Josh Lim here from Advertlets. This message is sent out to all bloggers that have registered with Advertlets in our key markets of Malaysia & Singapore.

Firstly, we admit. We made an error in judgment, and we did not intend for this to happen. And we are very sorry that it did, and would like to apologize for everyone affected.

Some small mistakes are resolved easily, and affect a few. And some mistakes, however small, can affect millions.

Most of you are probably disappointed, confused or angry at the recent downtime that has happened, that has cut off access to your blogs. Over the past few days, we have been doing everything we can to restore service, as well as answering e-mails, phone calls, smses, media interviews, and support requests.

Its hard to apologize to more than 15,000 members, and this e-mail was hard to type, but undoubtedly necessary. And first, I’ll probably be best to start by answering questions you might have:

What happened?
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A complication in the renewal process caused the Advertlets.com domain to expire, and caused issues for bloggers with our ads installed, which made their blogs redirect to a placeholder page. It was not our intent to do so. Advertlets.com blog users were unable to login to their Advertlets accounts and access the website as well.

How many did it affect?
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According to our statistics, it affected 30-65% of traffic to our network over the past 2 days. On most days, we experience between 3-4 million ad impressions per day. The viewers of most blogs were affected in some way, depending on the nature of how DNS settings would resolve in different countries and ISPs. Some would resolve faster, some would not, which caused varying experiences for viewers in different places.

What can I do to resolve the problem?
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You can follow some troubleshooting steps listed at http://advertlets.blogspot.com, a site temporarily set up to assist in
this issue. Or, you can remove your code for the time being, and we will notify you when it has been fully resolved.

Whose fault is it?
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Ours. The short answer is that it is our fault. The longer answer is that we tried everything we could as soon as we knew, however, some uncontactable and uncooperative parties made it harder. Nevertheless, the blame lies with us, and we will take full responsibility for it, and to resolve it.

What will happen to my current earnings?
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Your current earnings will be retained within the system, and we will continue to serve paid ads for you to continue to earn in future.

If I choose to continue with Advertlets, can I be assured that this will never happen again? And how do you intend to compensate us for the error?
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The domain has also been renewed, and we will make sure that this can never happen again. We resolve to do better in future, and have more failsafe options available. A financial compensation plan is being worked out, and will be announced on after we have assessed the full situation.

Will we be continuing operations?
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Yes. Paid ads are beginning to be served through the system again in available locations.

Where is service available as of now? How soon until everything is okay?
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We’ve received reports that most of the DNS has successfully resolved for the following ISPs:
– Jaring (Malaysia)
– TMNet (Malaysia)
– Starhub Maxonline (Singapore)
– PT Telkom (Indonesia)

Service is continuing to be restored throughout the rest of Asia and the world and all service should be fully restored in less than 12
hours.

Its heartening that some have been of great assistance to us in this difficult time, providing us with service updates from their area as well as moral support. But to those that were frustrated, we understand your frustration, and it frustrates us even more to have
been the source of it. All in all, we are still in awe as to how passionate all of you are.

And how many people have chosen to make Advertlets part of their channel of expression. It is our hope that you can continue to do so. Service is close to being 100% restored, and we will be notifying all when service is fully functional, to assist you with your decision on the continued use of our services. Your impressions are your votes. And if you can forgive us, we will make sure your trust is never again misplaced.

We will be making some personnel changes and new additions to ensure that everything – support, ad loading time, code, and more run smoothly in future. Major upgrades to the system are due in February, in the form of Advertlets 2.0 with new ad formats, referrals, earning graphs, social features, and traffic generation facilities. And of course morecontests, advertising revenue and sponsored post opportunities.

We hope that in the next few days we can prove ourselves again to you, nevertheless, our redemption will be in your hands. Once again, we apologize.

Regards,
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Josh Lim
On behalf of all at Advertlets.com

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Although it’s back to normal, I’m not going to put back the ad. Like what I said, I earn not much from Adverlets. I registered on September 2007, until now, I only get RM6++. Actually the total amount in my acount is RM26++. The RM20 is from the review I wrote on their website. 3 months plus and I get RM6++, i think it’s too low!! If I want to cash out the money, I think I need to wait for another few years (The cash out is RM100). I cannot wait that long.

So, I’m not going to continue with Advertlets, unless (YES, I say unless, you know, there will be exceptional case) Advertlets has more better promotions that can attract me.

Bye Bye Advertles.

Hoon told me she cannot go into her blog, it will direct her into another page. I tried mine, there are the same. It directs us to an advertlets site, which is not the usual website we used to see.

Later, Hoon told me she checked their domain and found this:

This domain name expired on Jan 03, 2008. Click here to renew it.

I just like, how can this happen? I mean, for an advertising company, they should renew their domain before its expired and keep the business running. If it continue like this, no one will come to you anymore.

For those with advertlets ads on your page, remove it and it will solve your problem. I have remove all from both of my blogs.

Actually before this incident, I was already considering whether I want to remove the ads from Advertlets or not, since i’m not earning that much from there. With this issue, I will permanently remove them from my blogs unless they come up to have a better service and most important thing, let me earn more.

So, wait no more, REMOVE NOW!