Robin Majumdar 2.0

Well - just a heads up to my black hat umm…. friends and associates that Syndk8 will be down for some scheduled maintenance; it is extremely rare that I’ve seen Syndk8 announce any sort of downtime, so it must be for some serious and significant site upgrades (or fixes).

For those wondering, Syndk8 is a black hat SEO (search engine optimization) forum for those who prefer to do their Internet business in a more… err, ruthless way ? Not that I condone or recommend it. Keep in mind that the best White Hat hackers have to keep in touch with what’s up on the dark side.

—–Original Message—–
From: Syndk8 Black Hat Seo Forum [mailto:noreply@syndk8.net]
Sent: April 2, 2008 5:37 PM
To: **************
Subject: New announcement: Syndk8 Scheduled Downtime Sometime Soon.

Hey Everybody

I need to make some important changes over the next few days to allow for the future growth and development of Syndk8.

You may see a blank page or a timeout for a few hours.

Please be patient and come back a few hours later.

You may need to flush your dns or cache to see the forum when it comes back up.

If you dont know how to flush your dns use google to find out how.

Thanks for your patience and best regards.

Earl Grey rockon

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You can view the full announcement by following this link:

http://syndk8.net/forum/index.php?topic=16299.0

Regards,
The Syndk8 Black Hat Seo Forum Team.

It’s been almost 18 hours since we first noticed that the popular ShoppingAds (and AuctionAds) system has been inaccessible. When trying to login one gets the following error message:

An error occurred.
An error occurred; please try again later.

Hopefully it is only affecting the ShoppingAds publisher reporting system and not the actual ad serving (and tracking!) side of the operation. ShoppingAds has experienced a few hiccups along the way - in particular since parent company Media Whiz acquired the AuctionAds eBay affiliate system from Jeremy Schoemaker.