Viral URL Web Site Gets "AT&T SLAP"!

It seems as though the popular safelist site Viral URL has had their site shut down without warning by their bandwidth provider, AT&T. Here is the e-mail I received earlier today from the operators of the Viral URL website.

“Just a short email to let you know that…

ViralUrl, ViralHosts and several other sites of ours at the same IP
address are temporarily offline. Why? Because AT&T (the company
that provides the bandwidth to our hosting company) decided to turn
off our IPs (without any notice) after ViralUrl links were used by
unscrupulous people for spamming. Most likely this is not even
from our servers, it is users using ViralURL cloaked links through
their emailing and spamming methods.

The IP address was brought down without any warning. As you can
imagine, we are all very upset with this situation, our web hosting
company is closely working with us on getting our IP address back.
Be ensured that we are doing what it takes to get this issue
resolved as soon as possible.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused and would like
to thank you for your patience. If you have any questions, feel
free to submit a ticket to Frank’s help desk at Reply2Frank.com
(for ViralUrl) or my help desk at Reply2Colin.com (for ViralHosts).

If we can’t get our old one back, we will switch to a new ip which
would mean 48+ hours to get online, so we hope to get the old one
back.

Thanks for bearing with us!

Colin Klinkert and Frank Bauer
Co-Founders ViralUrl and ViralHosts Dot Com

I hope they are able to get back in operation soon!

To your success,

Mark Freeman

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