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Ed / CzCash

10-06-2007 02:33 AM

Banned countries

We have some strange activity on our promo server (fhg, fhs, etc.). Bandwidth was +300% for last 7 days but signups volume stay as week ago. As 1st idea ? we ban shitty counries, who never pay just watching and eat bandwidth.

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@banned_countries = ( 'AI', 'AR', 'AZ', 'BD', 'BH', 'BY', 'BR', 'CO', 'CL', 'CN', 'CR', 'CU', 'HR', 'HK', 'DO', 'EG', 'IN', 'ID', 'IR', 'JM', 'JO', 'KE', 'KG', 'KW', 'KR', 'KZ', 'LB', 'LY', 'MA', 'MK', 'NP', 'PK', 'PE', 'PL', 'PH', 'PL', 'RO', 'RU', 'SG', 'LK', 'TH', 'UA', 'UY', 'VE', 'VN', 'YU' ,'ZA' ,'ZR', 'ZW' );

Total 49 countries. Any ideas about more countries?

:helpme

Az A Bay Bay

10-06-2007 03:08 AM

ok..................

celebnudevideo

10-06-2007 03:18 AM

49 countries, that is a lot

Retributi0n

10-06-2007 03:26 AM

all eastern europe? lol

yahoo-xxx-girls.com

10-06-2007 03:36 AM

Just a guess, but perhaps your marketing is off a bit Ed / CzCash?

Sounds like good traffic just little or no conversions...

Later,

.

Robo	10-06-2007 03:54 AM

That's good that I do not promote you :)
But you should ban .CZ too ! Will be 50 !

DjiXas

10-06-2007 04:05 AM

Add LT (Lithuania). Lots of fraud there.

quantum-x

10-06-2007 04:12 AM

Ban what you can't market to or process for, interesting technique.

u-Bob

10-06-2007 04:30 AM

be sure to mention that in your TOS.

Vick!

10-06-2007 05:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ed / CzCash (Post 13196425)

Total 49 countries. Any ideas about more countries?

:helpme

How the hell you can forget Nigeria? :winkwink::1orglaugh

Marshal

10-06-2007 05:58 AM

there are some countries on that list that CAN pay for watching. imho, it's not so good decision...

voa	10-06-2007 06:28 AM

Man another place where my country is banned(Macedonia-MK).This is too much why you banned whole country when you have a problem with just 1-2 person.

Ed / CzCash

10-06-2007 10:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robo2 (Post 13196622)

That's good that I do not promote you :)
But you should ban .CZ too ! Will be 50 !

Actually we have 2 servers, and 49 countries from this list watch promo from cheap server, located in Europe. We just try split people who really pay from people who just watch and go to password sites after watching.

Ed / CzCash

10-06-2007 10:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by voa (Post 13196906)

Man another place where my country is banned(Macedonia-MK).This is too much why you banned whole country when you have a problem with just 1-2 person.

For more than 7 years I have 0 (zero) sales from Macedonia. Do you think this is not a rule?

Ed / CzCash

10-06-2007 10:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vick! (Post 13196781)

How the hell you can forget Nigeria? :winkwink::1orglaugh

he-he, thanks. Nigerian bastards are banned too. :):):)

Ed / CzCash

10-06-2007 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by nettrust (Post 13196865)

there are some countries on that list that CAN pay for watching. imho, it's not so good decision...

You mean via dialer or something like NoCreditCard.com ? We use GXBill and some phone solutions for these 49 countries but actually we have calls only from RU, CR and TH.

Casa Nova

10-06-2007 11:07 AM

Interesting thing to do.. it's smart in a way, and not at the same time.. I'm still trying to decide.. lol

sniperwolf

10-06-2007 12:50 PM

wow! those are quite huge number of banned countries... :(

woj	10-06-2007 12:50 PM

why not just analyze the log files to see where the extra traffic is coming from?

StarkReality

10-06-2007 12:56 PM

TR (turkey) is missing on the list, loads of fraud !

Phil	10-06-2007 01:03 PM

Israel. never had one from israel.

Why	10-06-2007 01:07 PM

turkey, malaysia, indonesia, india, china, mongolia, russia, belarus, vietnam, chambodia, myanmar, thailand, singapore, etc.

RawAlex

10-06-2007 01:11 PM

If you are running a program that can only bill to CCs, then yeah, you need to be blocking out these countries. If the end users can't buy, why give away samples?

wateva

10-06-2007 01:16 PM

all asian countries banned.....................quite a list

emjay

10-06-2007 02:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ed / CzCash (Post 13197471)

You mean via dialer or something like NoCreditCard.com ? We use GXBill and some phone solutions for these 49 countries but actually we have calls only from RU, CR and TH.

Hey there Ed, our global phone billing solution delivers 100% global billing reach for all countries as these realtime stats bear witness : http://www.password-by-phone.com/realstats.php

As you can see, the payouts vary from $.50 to $10 depending on the surfer's country.

Hit me up anytime with questions.

Ed / CzCash

10-07-2007 07:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by woj (Post 13197952)

why not just analyze the log files to see where the extra traffic is coming from?

Some suffers sent by webmasters.
Some bastards from bbs (where any other countries excl. CN banned).

Angie77

10-07-2007 11:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nettrust (Post 13196865)

there are some countries on that list that CAN pay for watching. imho, it's not so good decision...

I agree.

TeenCat

10-07-2007 11:46 AM

why you better not track what are those 300% doing on your server? you can target better what to ban and what not :2 cents:

peterk

10-07-2007 12:27 PM

That is a big list

prezzz

10-07-2007 12:43 PM

Well, there's another problem with blacklisting those countries.
There are many worldwide webmasters who can try to promote your sites
on different markets (US/UK/Western Europe - by submitting galleries,
placing your FHGs on their TGPs etc.). By banning them from your servers
you practically tell them to go away...

bobby666

10-07-2007 02:45 PM

youve forgotten usa

Ed / CzCash

10-07-2007 03:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by prezzz (Post 13202085)

You mean, webmasters from China? TGP owners from Egypt? Linklist owner from Vietnam?

RawAlex

10-07-2007 03:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ed / CzCash (Post 13202861)

You mean, webmasters from China? TGP owners from Egypt? Linklist owner from Vietnam?

carders from turkey? Traffic theives from... wait, some of those are from the US.

The Judge

10-07-2007 05:20 PM

Why the negative approach? Instead of banned countries make a list of countries you allow, should be no more than 12.

$5 submissions

10-07-2007 06:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by u-Bob (Post 13196704)

be sure to mention that in your TOS.

What he said.

Also, redirect based on IP.

kektex

10-07-2007 06:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ed / CzCash (Post 13202861)

You mean, webmasters from China? TGP owners from Egypt? Linklist owner from Vietnam?

I am a webmaster from one of those countries you banned.
Good thing I do not promote your program.

GrouchyAdmin

10-07-2007 07:09 PM

Jeez, processing an array for an IP's GeoIP country for all traffic is just about as wasteful as the freeloaders. It's a small enough list. Load the GeoIP DB and your banned list into SHM and just 403/redirect based upon that.

Actually, you could do that almost-natively with mod_geoip, now that I think about it.

Code:

<IfModule mod_geoip2.c>

  GeoIPEnable On

  GeoIPDBFile /usr/local/share/GeoIP.dat



  <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

      RewriteEngine on

      RewriteCond !&#37;{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^US$ [OR]

      RewriteCond !%{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^CA$

      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.google.com$1 [L]

   </IfModule>

</IfModule>

Yeah, that should do it.

bDok	10-07-2007 07:45 PM

send that traffic off to some place. can do something with it. ;)

GrouchyAdmin

10-07-2007 07:49 PM

Oops. Just noticed my joke code (anything not US or CA) doesn't work. That [OR] is becoming a NOR due to my !test for CA. Take out the '[OR]'.

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