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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.
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.
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 Address
13.14.166
City
Ness Ziona
State/Region
HaMerkaz
Country Code
IL
ISP
Net-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:
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.
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 33,333, 40,004, 50,505, 66,666, 70,707 until reaching the beautifully round number of 100,000 almost exactly a year ago.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
