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Today I stumbled on to an interesting piece of news. Sites with Yugoslav domain .yu will no longer be available from tomorrow, 30th September. Actually ICANN removed .yu domain from the list of approved country domain names in 2006, but they still continued to support it to give extra time for sites to transfer to a different domain. Now they have decided that the time has come. They have a simple & fair reason, it should be appropriate to use .me or .rs domian (respectively for Montenegro & Serbia) as Republic of  Yugoslavia has been broken into these two countries

But the interesting thing is that about 4,000 sites are still on .yu domain. That’s why Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names has asked ICANN to consider to extend the time. ICANN is going to have a meeting about that.

By the way, if you are interested about history, .yu domain was first assigned to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1989. Then with the start of Balkan war, the domain was held by newly independent Slovenia before eventually getting passed to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1994. But as many of you know, Republic of Yugoslavia itself got renamed to Serbia and Montenegro in 2003, and Montenegro breaking out of the union in 2006, the history surely looks a bit clumsy

Not long ago, before my blog went down, I was looking for some free advertising. I got a  chance to put a 150×100 banner on a sidebar of a blog. I was looking for a quick & simple way to create one. BannerSketch was just that kind of service. With easy five steps you can get your banner in no time:

• Choose a banner size. All standard banner sizes are there
• Create custom colour or you can even upload picture for custom background
• Now select number of frames & text to add
• Add custom-made border with your chosen colour & size in pixel, if you want
• Banner is ready to generate

Get the code & use it. Your advertising banner is ready. No doubt, there are similar services there But I am quite happy using their service. They have some very neat & detailed options to create a custom banner & that’s also in a pretty quick way.

Oh! Long time since I have posted & that’s not because I was busy. It’s because F…ing host FusedHosting came out to be a scammer. The old owners sold the hosting company without any prior notification & the new owners took the liberty of toying with all the customers. The server went down & stayed like that for several weeks. They didn’t notify before. You couldn’t contact them as they won’t reply to support mails. They even took out the CAPTCHA image so that you couldn’t send them mail from your client area. Some guys found out the phone number of the owner from some other place but nobody took it. Even their own site was down for several days!

Now when they put it back, we couldn’t login to the cPanel! And that means we couldn’t get the backup. I have sent more than several mails without any reply. Then somebody replied:

Anirban,

We apologize for not responding to your emails, this is first email we have seen from you in a long time. We have checked your site and it is working for us just fine. Please double check your domain name again, and also your temp url with us at http://96.31.78.90/~anirbanr
We would love for you to stick around, please let us know if there is anything else we can do.

Also if you still require a backup, simply email us in return at support@fusedhosting.net

Thank You

They could see a site that was offline! They have a vision after all! And they apologized for the emails that they didn’t receive! How gentle!

The support ticket system was made available to the customers after some days. And when I asked for a backup, it got closed automatically without any reply. When I reopened,  somebody replied that they were generating backup & would send me. No luck! I again mailed them few times. Then I got an email that my backup was ready in cPanel. But as I couldn’t login to cPanel, I couldn’t get it! By the way, several days had passed already to get that response!

I was trying to figure out how to get a backup & get free from these big time jokers. After several failed attempts, I got this to work. They have sifted the server to new i.p address. I couldn’t login to the cPanel of old ip address too. But then I again tried to login to the old one with port 2082, and entered my username in Password Reset field. I was able to login to the cPanel of the deserted server with the new password that was sent to my email. I took a backup, and sifted my site to DreamHost. It was a bit of struggle as DreamHost doesn’t support cPanel. But I have succeeded after all! And now quite relieved!

The moto: Always keep backup! And more importantly never ever go for FusedHosting!

All the existing customers like me have suffered. As I am writing now, I have read a few customers have been able to login to cPanel recently. But if you still can’t, use http://oldipnumber:2082 (not http://oldipnumber/cpanel). My site was hosted on 67.228.116.181 (so the url address was http://67.228.116.181:2082).

Good luck!

I have lost my rankings, traffic in these few weeks. But I am at least happy that I put it back with all the content.

Images in Reply to Tom’s Comment(click to enlarge):

My email screenshot:

Here is my support ticket screenshot:

Yahoo Meme previously launched in Spanish & Portuguese, has been launched in English few days ago. I was busy as usual, and so couldn’t have a look at it. Now as I see, it is in invite-only mode. You can request for an invitation by giving your email address in “i want in!” box. I have just requested one.
You can say it’s almost the same service like Twitter or Tumbler.But as I browsed through the net, I have found some interesting information about it. When you create an account, it will give you a kind of empty blog where you can add text, images, videos or music etc. Apart from that you can add upto 100 words of description. And you will find repost button on each update made whether it is a text or any other media, just like a retweet. That’s surely a nice addon.
Things are more or less same. It’s a one way following system like Twitter & you can find people by searching them. Oh, by the way, you can also comment on other people’s update even if you don’t follow them. That’s kind a cool.
So, request an invitation & sit back to enjoy a nice little ride. I like that Yahoo has launched this product without much showoff.

I have seen many adult blogs using Adsense ads on their sites. Most of them don’t care whether it is legal or illegal. Recently one of my friends asked me if it would be a good idea to start an adult blog. No doubt, it would get popular sooner & with lesser efforts than ordinary blogs & then he can add Adsense ads to earn revenue. I told him that Adsense doesn’t allow adult content. He pointed me that many blogs with mature content are using Adsense & he was too lazy to find the words from Google Adsense TOS. So, for those idle guys like my friend, here is what Adsense has to say about putting any kind of adult content with Adsense ads:

Sites with Google ads may not include or link to:

• Pornography, adult or mature content

Here is the link that can tell you more about the site content that is not allowed with Adsense. You may keep using Adsense with your adult site, but there is every chance that Google will find it out & ban you. Then you have only yourself to blame.

By the way, don’t ask me why do you visit many adult blogs. There is not  only a single answer always