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1. Good to see many familiar names. I was beginning to think that I had taken one step too far in OMNI/PR

2. Interesting take on IB and their vBulletin product. I hadn’t realized IB bought VB. Most of the boards I frequent use VB. Perhaps this “attack” or outage is related to customer dissatisfaction due to the changes outlined here (DNS?).

   http://econsultancy.com/blog/4886-case-study-how-to-lose-customers-and-destroy-your-brand

3. Oops, meant DDOS (dedicated denial of service), not DNS (duh).

4. Yesterday I was reading the thread about the guy stranded by Air China in a big snowstorm.

   Lots of nasty comments about Air China. Then someone posts that the Great Firewall of China has blocked Flyertalk !

   With this longer outage today, should be even more fun to see what theories are developed !

5. Come On FT; the US Air Grand Slam Promotion is gonna end on the 15th & how am I supposed to plan out my final few “Hits”???

6. Wow! I am going into FT withdrawal. Never realized I depend on the site so much.

   I’ve spent my career in IT ‘fighting fires’. Have to admit, must be a lot of adrenaline and caffeine flowing at Internet Brands right now…

7. DDOS – *Distributed* Denial of Service.

   It does suck.

8. 1. Internet Brands (IB) is a California based new media company that operates online media, community, and e-commerce sites in vertical markets. IB also develops and licenses internet software and social media applications.
   2. IB owns and operates more than 90 websites in various categories.
   3. IB shares (Market Value: $ 316M) are listed on NASDAQ. Neither recently reported third quarter financial results nor the darkness of FT affects their previous share tradings.
   4. IBs income dempends mainly on adds and drives under google shadow.
   5. MileageAddict´s – s/he seems to be a leader of the delusifly named FT “Hotel Deals” forum that attracts “consumers” in the hope to find “error rates” – replay # 33 is out of touch.

9. How will I get my daily mile fix??
   Good thing I bought gas with my rewards card today, or no miles!
   I am in FT withdrawal and nothing will fix it, not even 10,000 gold $1 Coins!
   I want MY FT!!

10. Ok, serious withdrawal. Just when there was a fun thread about Vice at Starwood properties beginning to form. Anyone else in Bangkok and want to fill the time normally spent on FT drinking and reminiscing over the good ol’ days of USENET?

11. Ouch that’s rough. I’m on an MR right now, too 😀

12. I am playing the USAirways Grandslam which end in two days. Does anyone have any experience coaxing from SPG (Starwoods) an immediate transfer to an airline, such that it would be post in time?

13. Is this a record time for FT to be down? We were at the Mega DO then spent 5 days in Italy, returning yesterday afternoon. Hope everyone made it back okay from Mega DO!!

14. Seems to be back up for me!

15. so, Smart Shopper…do you enjoy working for IB?

16. FT forums are up and running well as of this posting, although I still can’t access the home page.

17. I hope SmartShopper’s father can spell better.

18. I just know there’s an Econolodge with a mistake rate for 12 bucks in the middle of Idaho I’m missing out on….. I miss you guys…*sniff*… its just so broken and not working…..*sniff*….

19. Flyertalk.com is back up this morning …

    Check out the WSJ article about the Mega DO: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703808904574529622404278810.html

20. Call me out of touch if you’d like but bottom line, Flyertalk is not as good as it was before IB took over. Oh yeah, we are in day 2 of the outage, right?

21. Wow I am so glad I found this site with a lot of the usual FT suspects on it! I have been cursing the Chinese and the Great Firewall for the last 2 days, thinking they finally decided FT was too subversive for those of us here in the Middle Kingdom. Guess I fingered the wrong culprits this time. :-))

22. Teh Box needs its own server. :star:

23. Still down – this is one loooong outage.

24. I’m an admin over at another of Internet Brands sites, and there HAS been a continued DDOS attack against the IB sites over the past two days that has had all of the sites responding poorly, and some off the air entirely. We appear to be almost back to “normal” now. See: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23scionlife

    Tom

25. It’s still impossible to connect from Hong Kong… I reckon it’s nearly 72 hours now that I’ve been suffering withdrawal symptoms.

26. I still can’t get on, not to home page nor into any forum directly.

27. I’m starting to get the shakes. 2 days without FT, I think I’m addicted.

28. Still down in Thailand and India

29. Down for me again now.

30. Back up in India.

31. I may have spoken too soon.

32. And it is down again.. probably angry Egyptians because of the flame of Egyptair I put on.

33. IBStephanie’s announcement atop all of the FT boards has been extended to “18 November”. The email alert function re new comments is still not hooked up — here, at least. I’ve received one in the four day outage, and it was about someone’s post the prior day.

34. Ok, while it was previously just inaccessible for me now it seems to be redirecting to some illegal download site.

35. Oh my word! Flyertalk, PPRuNe, LS1Tech, Yotatech, ClubLexus… are all owned by the same people?!

    Wow, very interesting to see all of these forums where people contribute out of the goodness of their hearts, are actually run by some kind of forum conglomerate….