Ranga pointed this out a few minutes ago (thanks "bro").
If you've tried to visit my blog over the last 24 hours, you would probably have been redirected to Adbaaz.com, a notorious advertising network. Unfortunately, this was due to the Advertlets banner that I had running in the sidebar - my apologies!
Turns out that the guys behind Adbaaz have hijacked the Advertlets domain name (advertlets.com) after it expired on January 3, 2008. This is a terrible crisis that could have been avoided for no more than US$10 - that's how much it costs to renew a domain name.
It's strange that this crisis has hit Advertlets. One of the founders,
Josh Lim, was the man behind the
WhoIsAdamKing.com "coup" in 2002. I guess karma does bite you back in the ass.
I think this may spell the
end of Advertlets, especially in terms of reputation; but let's wait for them to give their side of the story.
Labels: advertlets, hacking, malaysia, spoofing, web 2.0
