Service sends traffic to best parking company based on visitor’s location.
It’s no secret that certain domain parking companies perform better with traffic from different countries. Some do better with U.S. traffic while others do better in Germany, India, etc. But splitting domain traffic amongst domain parking companies has always been a challenge. Most people end up sending all traffic for each domain to one parking company.
That’s where Comwired, a new DNS service, comes in. With Comwired you can send your domain traffic to different domain parking companies based on the location of the visitor.
Setting domains up with the service is simple. You point your domain to Comwired’s name servers, then select which locations send traffic to each parking company. In the example below I want to send Mexican traffic to NameDrive, U.S. traffic to Parked.com, and everything else to Sedo:
Of course, you also need to add your domain to each parking service that you use. If you later decide to test certain traffic with another parking company you just log in to the service and change the selection.
Comwired offers additional DNS features such as load balancing. During open beta, the domain service is free (for now).
Sammy Ashouri says
I wonder how this would affect Google rankings/penalties. I’m aware that most parked domains don’t rank, but sending traffic to different places would probably do some harm to your SERP ?
Andrew Allemann says
@ Sammy – like you said, I’m not concerned about this on parked domains. For web sites, lots of web sites use geo location to show a different page (e.g. different language) to different people.
RKB says
There rates seem very high unless I misunderstood something?
Andrew Allemann says
rkb – I think you’d only use it for your high traffic, geographically diverse domains. For those 30 cents a month doesn’t seem unreasonable.
Johnny says
Prices do seem very expensive for common domains. This would seem to only work for your primo domains……unless splitting the traffic up like this really does increase earnings substantially.
This service also leads the mind to the question, “Can you send one visitor, for example, from the U.S. to a parked page and then the next from England to a developed page”?
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Dutch Boyd says
Wow… what a great thing. Potentially, I think this could help income quite a bit. Going to try it out a little and see what happens.
Steve M says
Johnny, that’s a great, probably patentable idea.
Find yourself a good patent attorney in your geo area and file right away.
Lawrance Bailey says
>>This service also leads the mind to the question, “Can you send one visitor, for example, from the U.S. to a parked page and then the next from England to a developed page”?<< -Johnny
I too would be interested in hearing whether this is possible.
wannadevelop.com says
geo targeting… old newz
been around forever — nothing new
not so complicated to deploy either, just install a script or plug in code and there is plenty of services that already do this for you
google geo targeting scripts or geo targeting ips
Patrick McDermott says
“Johnny, that’s a great, probably patentable idea.”
Now you tell him. 🙂
Unfortunately, if I remember right, you have to file your Patent application BEFORE revealing (publishing) your idea (invention) to the Public.
I believe that one of the conditions for obtaining a patent is that the invention
must be NEW.
When you file your patent application, your invention must not have ever been publicly published.
That means it cannot have been revealed publicly to even a single person either
verbally or in writing.
Andrew Allemann says
@ Patrick – you have 1 year after publicly (or in some cases privately) disclosing your idea to patent it.
Patrick McDermott says
Thanks for the correction, Andrew.
The clock is ticking. 🙂
The "G." Man says
Has anyone had any problems with this service in sending traffic to Trafficz? When we utilize the service none of our Trafficz parked pages are displayed. When we move the DNS back to Trafficz the parked pages are working fine. Just wondering if anyone else had problems with their Trafficz parked pages through this service? Thanks.
Sincerely,
The “G.” Man
Sean Stafford says
Lots of good questions here in this thread.
Right now we are finishing up some new features and going to push them at the end of the month. Some of what has been requested here will be pushed into the new version.
We are also looking at building a “round robin” addon to be implemented so one visitor can go to one provider and then another visitor can go to another, etc, etc.
As for TrafficZ, we’ve got calls into their team right now to see if they can lend us a hand as well. We will have that issued fixed very shortly.
Thanks much!!
Sean Stafford
The "G." Man says
Glad to hear. Thought we where doing something wrong on our end. Just let us know when it is resolved. Thanks again and looks like a very promising service.
Sincerely,
The “G.” Man
Sean Stafford says
No worries! I think we have solved the TrafficZ problem. If you can check it again and let me know, that would be great!
Thanks!!
Sean
The "G." Man says
Everything seems to be working now. Thanks Sean for the quick response.
Sincerely,
The “G.” Man