Grabbing the cash and running is bad enough, but keep an eye on your statements in case something worse happened.

***UPDATE: Seems as though he might have set up shop at a new domain. http://omgwtfnzbs.org/

***Update 2: Just found this in my inbox:

To: Webmaster

From:
omgwtfnzbs
staff@omgwtfnzbs.com

Message:

http://www.usenetsecrets.com/2012/12/omgwtf-he-ran-away-with-the-money/

remove this post asap its a lie!

regards

owner of omgwtfnzbs.com

This turnkey project should help get you up and running quickly. Hopefully I can play with it this week.

http://aceshome.com/newznab/

nzbX.co is completely free, for now anyways. Yet is bound to be the next high profile public indexer. Running Amazon AWS servers would seemingly put a big DMCA target on your back, but who knows. I’d love for this site to work, but I have my doubts. Already he’s had his paypal account suspended. Not even a week in and already there is a little heat. Nonetheless, I really want this site to work out. Everyone should read the nzbX.co dev blog.

PrivNZB has gone the other route. Smaller server running straight NewzNab. But they’re charging $30 for VIP. Granted, that indexer only plans on serving maybe a few hundred people. And who wouldn’t want to be apart of a very secretive private indexer. Being a smaller target, they’re not likely to attract a lot of attention. But $30 is a lot, especially for something so new. I’m not sure if any NewzNab site is worth $30 when there are still others that are cheaper or free.  But I know a lot of you don’t have a lot of choices and worry about the future.

They also have IRC up at #NZBMatrix.chat on p2p-network.net

NZBx.co - No registration required. Pretty spartan and no categories. Reddit Thread for more development information.

NZB-SA - Haven’t signed up myself, but commenters seem to like it.

Usenet-Crawler - NewzNab Index with open registrations. 1,000 API hits a day.

NZBZombie – New NewzNab site but open registration.

privNZB - Open registration until the end of the year. Thread with more information. Closed registration. $30 to have VIP.

NZBFinder – $10 gets VIP with 5,000 API hits

nzbTV.net – Basic NewzNab site

Nzbs2Go – Open registration

NZB7 – Open registration

MuttNZB – Open registration

FileSharingTalk NZB Kind of an old but not very well known NZB forum. Server is a little spotty, but still good.

NZBgeek – Forums based NZB indexer.

newzNZB - New, similar to NZBx.co. Broken, but still taking VIP donations.

NZBsRus They apparently still up. Only available for $9.99 for VIP in BitCoins. Might want to try the ones above first. Now VIP only. $12 in BitCoins.

NZBRoyalty - Not too bad for an NZB forum. They like to password a lot of their uploads, and they’ll disable your account if you never contribute. Registrations closed by admin.

Remember, account hoarding is key for the long term.

And if you know of any others, please let me know.

Newznab is the best way forward. It’s fairly easy to run, and you can get it set up in a single afternoon. Instead of having a few big NZB indexers, we’re starting to see smaller community projects. A single small Newznab site with only a few hundred users is much less of a target than a giant such as NZBMatrix.

Only, we could all have the most reliable indexers, and we could still be facing DMCA problems. I don’t think we’re quite at the point of being able to have community run Usenet servers. I wish we were, but even a low retention server would still be insanely expensive.

The big problem is the Usenet Providers themselves. US providers have to takedown posts, or they’ll become liable. No way around it. Would be better if they could drag their feet a bit. Or make the requester to jump through more hoops than simply emailing in the NZB.

At least more people are already moving towards the NL providers, but they aren’t 100% immune either. But we still have the posts themselves being the problem. Obfuscation isn’t a real answer, since that is bad for the community in general. It could be made to work, but more creative people than me will have to figure it out.

The rest of you lucky ones. I’d make sure you get VIP as soon as NZB.su opens up payments again.

Edit: If you still have your free account. Congratulations, looks like you’re safe for now. They’re all done pruning accounts.

Only a matter of time before they close registration, so hurry.

Edit: Try out omgwtfnzbs

Check comments for more.

I wouldn’t give up hope, you may have some success in their IRC channels. But for now, you guys should rely on the header searches and the header search method I outlined in the previous post.

If you’re here, and a refugee, you already know what indexers you need to get on. So it’s just a matter of joining IRC or some forums and trying to network. But until you can find an invite or NZB.su or DogNZB open up registrations.

But there is one alternatives. Simply, welcome to the world of searching headers.

At this point two sites should be your friend. Binsearch.info and Orlydb.

Find the release name on Orlydb and then search that exact string on Binsearch. Make sure that the file sizes match up and you should be good to go.

In addition, NZBClub and NZBIndex should also be used in conjunction with Orlydb.