Messages like the following have accompanied the bannings:

We have terminated your Yahoo! Publisher Network beta account [ACCOUNT ID] for breach of the Terms and Conditions and/or Program Policies. Your breach includes but may not be limited to sending traffic from users located outside the United States, in violation of Section 11(l) of the Terms and Conditions. In accord with Section 6(a), we will not include such amounts in your payment. We have refunded amounts generated from the non-US users to our advertisers and will pay any remaining amount owed to you in accord with the Terms and Conditions.

While everyone knew that YPN was only in beta, and only accepting US publishers, who knew that their Terms Of Service excluded non-US traffic?! That means my visitors from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, The People’s Republic of Korea, and other fun and interesting companies, would get me banned?

How the hell (pardon my outrage) are publishers supposed to keep international visitors from clicking on the ads, when YPN is not serving up geo-targetting. It would be up to the customer to set that up, somehow, and believe me… Things like that are not easy.

YPN just rang a funeral bell for themselves. Thus far, it’s the first one they’ve rung, but we all know that sometimes that one little screw up, is all it takes.