Tuesday, December 20, 2016

33, 333 Drink Labes passed!

Colnect catalogs are growing super fast! Today we celebrate the new amazing milestone of Colnect Drink Label catalog

33, 333 drink labels!

"Christkindlesmarkt Bier", beer label, Germany, Federal Republic, Colnect


Could you imagine that only for the last 24 hours 419 drink labels were added to our awesome Drink Label catalog?

"La Rulles Cuvée Meilleurs", beer label, Belgium, Colnect

We launched Drink Label category almost 4 years ago. Since that time dedicated and passionate collectors have developed the Drink Label catalog to an impressive piece of collaborative work.

"Kerstberen Bier", beer label, Netherlands, Colnect

We are grateful to all collectors, editors, and contributors, who made Drink Label catalog happen and support it with contributing new items. Special thanks to category coordinator Mario Wicht [Betta1970] for the great work on developing, enlarging, and bettering Drink Labels on Colnect!

"Christmas", beer label, Belgium, Colnect

Want to join us and better Colnect together? We always welcome and appreciate any help. If you've never contributed information to Colnect before, please read our Catalog Contribution Guidelines.

Merry Christmas and happy collecting!

Saturday, December 10, 2016

83,838 postcards on Colnect reached!

Colnect catalog is growing fast and this year we marked passing two milestones of Colnect postcard category - 66,666 and 77,777 postcards. Now it's time to add more variety to the milestone numbers and we are happy to celebrate the new awesome milestone of 

83,838 postcards!



It`s hard to express how much we appreciate the work of dedicated coordinators of Postcard category, Vadym Sulimenko [Dravec] and Grzegorz Pająk [quarteris]. Thank you for all the things you do to keep the category grow and develop.



Also, Postcard catalog wouldn`t be so beautiful, diverse and impressive without the great contribution of the editors, translators, and contributors. Thank you, collectors!



For the last four months, more than 6,060 postcards from 132 countries were added to the catalog. The most of them are from Germany, Federal Republic, USSR, and Italy.



Recently added postcards feature 347 themes. The most popular of them are Townscapes/City Views, Buildings, Architecture, and Landscapes.


Want to join us as a contributor? Please read our Postcards Catalog Contribution Guidelines. You can learn more details on how to contribute to Colnect on the Contributor Guide.


Thursday, November 24, 2016

Sunday, October 30, 2016

More than 66,666 Hotel Key Cards!

A year and a half ago, we were celebrating 50,005 Hotel Key Cards on the catalog. Now, over 16,666 Hotel Key Cards later, we are proud to mark the new milestone of 66,666 Hotel Key Cards, showing that the catalog is only growing faster and better as the milestones pass.
"Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort - Queen of hearts" Canadian hotel key card, from the Colnect catalog
With a rate of over 1,666 cards added every month, Colnect now features a catalog with Hotel Key Cards from 196 countries, 2,907 hotel chains and 292 themes.
"Hostal de la Gavina ***** GL" Spanish hotel key card, from the Colnect catalog
We would like to thank the coordinators of the category, Ignacio F López Vico [iflvico] and Angel L. Nebro [a1954], for their wonderful work on the hotel key cards catalog.

"Renaissance Golden View Beach Resort" Egyptian hotel key card, from the Colnect catalog
We would also like to express our appreciation for the contributors who make, by adding card after card, this catalog look the way it does today.
"Carlton Inter-Continental Cannes" French hotel key card, from the Colnect catalog
Would like to help add key cards to the catalog? Learn more on the Contributor Guide.

"Park Silver Obelisco Hotel" Argentinian hotel key card, from the Colnect catalog

Monday, October 24, 2016

Over 33,333 Beer Coasters!

There are now over 33,333 Beer Coasters on the Colnect catalog!
"1664" French Beer Coaster, from the Colnect catalog
Since it started in January 2011, the catalog grew and developed, raising quality as it goes along.
"Siebenstern Brau" Austrian Beer Coaster, from the Colnect catalog
The catalog features coasters from 158 countries and 5,552 brands (!).
"'t Geheim van de Smit" Netherlands Beer Coaster, from the Colnect catalog
We would like to thank the coordinator of the category, fugitive, for his dedicated management of the catalog for over 4 years that has brought it to where it is today.
"Adambrau" Austrian Beer Coaster, from the Colnect catalog
We would also like to thank the great contributors of the Beer Coasters catalog, without which, there will be no coasters :)
"Timothy Taylor's" UK Beer Coaster, from the Colnect catalog
Would like to help add coasters to the catalog? Learn more on the Contributor Guide help page.
"Wilkenburger" German Beer Coaster, from the Colnect catalog

Monday, October 10, 2016

24,242 Bank Cards Passed!

We're happy to announce the Bank Cards category passing 24,242 Bank Cards.
"Caja Segovia" Spanish Bank Card, from the Colnect catalog
A new milestone reached is a great opportunity to celebrate the veteran category on Colnect that, since it's creation in 2009, has grown into a beautiful catalog.
"Siberian Merchant Bank. Yellow horses" Russian Bank Card, from the Colnect catalog
136 countries are represented, with cards issued on a range of years, from 1966 to 2016, with each card accompanied with a nice illustrative picture.
"Aldeas Infantiles SOS" Spanish Bank Card, from the Colnect catalog
329 Themes are displayed on the various items on the catalog, from Actors to Zodiac.

"Raiffeisenbank – Uniqa – 1" Bulgarian Bank Card, from the Colnect catalog
We would like to thank the wonderful work of the coordinator of the category, Irina Alferova [alfcard], that has done greatly in maintaining and growing the catalog. We would also like to thank, on this occasion, Jarosław Mróz [qra1969] and past coordinators Emilio Orta [Emilioorta], zild17 and Hendy Florez [hflorez].

"Universitaria" Spanish Bank Card, from the Colnect catalog
Would like to help add Bank Cards to the catalog? Learn more on the Contributor Guide help page.

"Banco Cetelem - Actual" Spanish Bank Card, from the Colnect catalog
We wish all the best to this great catalog, see you on the next milestone!

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

3,333 Admission Tickets on Colnect

Only a little more than half a year passed since we have announced the start of the new catalog of Admission Tickets. In its beginning, the category included 989 tickets, and it has a come a long way since then.
"Trumper" USA Disneyland admission ticket, from the Colnect catalog
Today, the category is reaching 3,333 Admission Tickets, from 73 countries. All tickets are accompanied with quality images.
"Glungezerbahn" Austria admission ticket, from the Colnect catalog
Admission Tickets have been added from different periods, from a Yugoslavian ticket dating back to 1951 up until a range of tickets from the current year.
"Tennis Thailand Open 2003" Thailand admission ticket, from the Colnect catalog
We'd like to thank the coordinator of the Admission Tickets category, Hernán Bofill [hbofill12], and the contributors that have brought this catalog to life.
Over 321 collectors have already marked items from the catalog on their lists. Do you have any admission tickets to mark? Browse the catalog to find your tickets.

"Masked Rider - Stronger" Thailand admission ticket, from the Colnect catalog
Would like to help add admission tickets to the catalog? Learn more on the Contributor Guide help page or post your question on the forums.

Sunday, August 21, 2016

77,777 Postcards on Colnect!

In the beginning of this year we have marked reaching 66,666 Postcards on the Colnect catalog. It's now summer, the year not even entering its final season, and the Postcards catalog has already reached its new impressive milestone of 
77,777 Postcards on the catalog!
"Rila. Seven Lakes of Rila" 1982 Bulgaria Postcard, from the Colnect catalog
We would like to thank the wonderful coordinators of the Postcards category, Vadym Sulimenko [Dravec] and Grzegorz Pająk [quarteris]. Their dedicated work developing the catalog is keeping it beautiful, updated and more and more complete every year.
"Alexei Leonov. The docking of Soyuz and Apollo. 1977" Soviet Union, USSR 1987 Postcard, from the Colnect catalog
We would also like to thank all the dedicated help of all postcards editors and contributors that have helped add over 11,111 postcards this year.
"Seven sunset. Kamchatka, Kluchevskiy park" Russia 2014 Postcards, from the Colnect catalog
256 Countries are featured on the catalog. The countries with most added postcards since the last milestone are Soviet Union, USSRCzechoslovakia and Russia.
"Country house. 1877" Russia 2012 Postcard, from the Colnect catalog
The oldest postcard added this year is from 1900 from Portugal, "Coimbra-Santa Clara, View". 135 Postcards issued in 2016 have been added to the catalog as well, from 9 different countries.
"Geirangerfjord and 'Seven Sisters' waterfall" Norway Postcard, from the Colnect catalog
Want to help add more Postcards to the catalog? Please see our Postcards Catalog Contribution Guidelines. You can also read more details on contribution to Colnect on the Contributor Guide.
"Summer Palace. Seventeen-arch Bridge" China Postcard, from the Colnect catalog

Monday, August 1, 2016

Coins Reaching 66,666 on Colnect

In an appropriate tribute to the year 2016, we're happy to celebrate Colnect Coins catalog passing the 66,666 Coins mark.



This year we have seen a lot of positive progress for Numismatic collectibles on Colnect. Maybe most importantly, we've seen the addition of the Year Variants in the coins catalog.
1 Mahbub (With rose) Gold Coin from Egypt, 1730, from the Colnect catalog  
With over a thousand new coins added every month, the coins catalog is growing in impressive speed. The speed does not come at the expense of the quality of the catalog, that maintains it's high standards for information and images.
The success of the catalog is due to the impeccable work of the coordinators, Angelo Parla [angelo13] and Hernán Bofill [hbofill12], and the dedicated editors and contributors of the category.
1 Sovereign (Victoria Queen) Gold Coin from Australia, 1855, from the Colnect catalog
If you would like to help add items to the catalog, please see our Catalog Contribution Guidelines page.
500 Dinara (Preserve Planet Earth Series - Brontosaurus) Copper-Nickel Coin from Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1993, from the Colnect catalog
We wish all the best to the catalog that is getting better and better every month. There's a bright and shiny future for this numismatic category.

1 Cent (Silver edition) from Sierra Leone, 1964, from the Colnect catalog

Thursday, July 28, 2016

FreeDNS / NameCheap DNS Servers Attacked / Hacked? Are your domain suddenly directed to 213.184.126.163 ?

UPDATE: following email correspondence with the hosting provider for the IP 213.184.126.163 they have taken down the server there till further notice. At least now users won't be redirected to phishing and malware websites.

Today we were alarmed to find out that our server domains are not resolved properly to their correct IP address but to an IP address we're not familiar with 213.184.126.163

The reason for this issue was that FreeDNS servers have responded with the wrong IP 213.184.126.163 instead of our real IP. To some people, this wrong IP cause a redirect to a malware website! Please comment here if you suffer from a similar issue.

While it seems that, at least in our case FreeDNS now responds properly, the malicious DNS entry has gotten a TTL (Time To Live) of 1 week which means that if the various domain name servers who received the wrong IP are actually obeying this TTL your website may be inaccessible for an entire week!

To check if your domain is resolved properly, you can use a service such as digwebinterface or whatsmydns to check quickly how different DNS worldwide resolve your domain. You can also use dig or nslookup to see quickly what a specific DNS replies.

In a chat with NameCheap they denied being hacked as their support supervisor wrote "I can assure you that our servers have not been hacked.". Well, if not hacked, have they done this on purpose? Getting many of their domains to point to a malware site? Do you smell a lawsuit coming?

Here's a bit of info about the IP used for this hack:

IP Address13.14.166
CityNess Ziona
State/RegionHaMerkaz
Country CodeIL
ISPNet-Style Atarim Ltd

 As for our own website I've posted this message on our forum: http://colnect.com/en/forum/viewtopic!f=6&t=68917&p=192078#p192078

Dear members,

UPDATE: we have posted on our blog about this issue as well.
UPDATE2: if you're on windows try to also launch ipconfig /flushdns from command prompt to ensure your computer is trying to fetch the correct DNS.
UPDATE3: we've updated more entries to the hosts file to ensure all our servers respond properly.


PLEASE SAVE THIS MESSAGE IF YOU SEE IT. If other Colnectors are having trouble please assist them.

DNS is a service that translates a domain name ( such as colnect.com ) to an IP address ( such as 148.251.247.10 which is our main IP ).
One of our DNS providers had problems on their servers. I suspect they've been hacked but are unaware of it. Thereby you may not see Colnect properly and instead get redirected somewhere else.

If this happens you can here are your options:

1/ Close your browser, wait a bit and try again. If it doesn't work then go ahead and flush your DNS cache. However, if your DNS provider didn't get updated yet you may need to follow the next steps.

2/ Update your hosts file manually (explanation) by adding these two lines:

148.251.247.10 colnect.com
148.251.247.9 s.colnect.net
148.251.247.9 i.colnect.net
148.251.247.11 nif.colnect.net


If you choose this option you may want to comment out these lines later as we plan to change IP for colnect.com in the coming days as we upgrade our server.

3/ Set your DNS servers to Google's own 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 - here's a guide


We are very sorry for this trouble. While their DNS now seems to work well, the bad records showing a different IP address might still be cached on other DNS providers.

Sunday, May 22, 2016

Accelerated Growth - 131313 Members Now on Colnect

The Colnect community, ever growing, has now reached 131,313 Members!



To take a quick look back at the way we have come, as a community, we need to go back to August 2009, when we celebrated our first milestone of 5,555 members. From there the community almost doubled in 8 month's time to - 11,111. The community just kept doubling its previous milestone, getting to 20,020, than going to 33,33340,00450,50566,66670,707 until reaching the beautifully round number of 100,000 almost exactly a year ago.
"100 Złotych (Władysław I Lokietek (1320-1333))" Poland Coin, from the Colnect catalog

Important thing to note, that the rate of growth in our community in the past 2 years has tripled (!) from the rate of growth in the preceding years.
"Barbara Virgin and Martyr" Italy Holy Card, from the Colnect catalog
33,333 members have joined Colnect in the past year, to form our current community of collectors from 150 countries around the world. This means that the amount of collectors joining this year is six times larger than our entire community at the first milestone!

"Parque Generalísimo Francisco de Miranda" Venezuela Admission Ticket, from the Colnect catalog
More members, means more collectors, means more collections! In a very fitting number, over 33,333,333 inventory items have been added to Colnect since the last milestone of 110,000,000 inventory items. Inventory items are any item that a member adds to their collection, swap and wish lists.

"Icon of Holy Annunciation" Macedonia Postcard, from the Colnect catalog
As the community develops, so does Colnect as a collection management tool and a website to connect collectors. The past year we've seen Colnect dawn a sleek new outfit, added with dynamic sorting, was joined by 2 new categories, Admission Tickets and Holy Cards and much more.

"Yugoslavia Vs. Indonesia" Yugoslavia Admission Ticket, from the Colnect catalog
We would like to thank the over 900 contributors that make Colnect the effective tool it is today. The contributors help make the catalogs as complete, accurate and interesting as possible, and are doing great, dedicated work, on their own time, for the benefit of all collectors.

"10th Anniversary of the Admission of Angola in the UN" Angola Stamp, from the Colnect catalog
Want to join as a contributor on Colnect? Learn more about what you can do to help on the Contributor Guide. You are also welcome to check out and join our efforts to complete the catalog with ALL images on the Zero Missing Pictures Campaign.

"National bank in Skopje" Yugoslavia Postcard, from the Colnect catalog
We're excited about Colnect getting a larger and larger collector's community, providing more opportunities for each collector, improved tools of use, better collecting and better connecting. We wish all Colnect collectors to have a thriving and fulfilling collecting year.

""Agatha Virgin and Martyr" Italy Holy Card, from the Colnect catalog

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