Tag Archives: domain parking

Mon 2nd March 2009
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Survey: Parking Revenue Down, But Not Out - Many domain owners see a drop in income, but few take big plunge. With all the horror stories out there of domain parking revenue down 50%, self-reported results from the 4th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey show parking revenue isn’t that bad. To be sure, 45% of people said their domain parking revenue was down in 2008 and only 16% reported an increase. But 40% said their parking revenue on a domain-by-domain basis was stable, and only 13% saw a decline of 50% or ... read more ...
Wed 25th February 2009
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Survey: Sedo and Parked.com Top Domain Parking Companies - Sedo and Parked.com selected as top domain parking companies. For the third year in a row, Sedo has topped Domain Name Wire’s survey for best domain name parking company. Here are the top 7 vote getters including percentage of the vote: 1. Sedo/SedoPro 33% 2. Parked.com 17% 3. NameDrive 11% 4. Fabulous 6% 5. GoDaddy 5% 6. Google Adsense for Domains 4% 7. DomainSponsor 4% Compared to last year, Parked and NameDrive switched places, Fabulous jumped up a spot, and ... read more ...
Tue 17th February 2009
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Yahoo Stats Delay Hits Domain Parking Companies - Delay in revenue stats hits major domain name parking companies. A domain name parking stats delay from Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) has hit a number of domain name parking companies, preventing them from providing final parking stats to customers for the past few days. Yahoo is one of the biggest domain name advertising feed providers. The outage appears to have started late last week when parking companies started to notify customers of stats delays (or simply not update ... read more ...
Thu 12th February 2009
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HotKeys: The Domain Parking Service You Don’t Know Yet - Demand Media parking company is worth checking out. I’m familiar with just about every domain name parking company out there. Whether it’s someone pitching me on a story about their services, reading about it in a forum, or hearing about it through the grapevine, I have a pretty good handle on the competitive landscape. About a month ago I e-mailed back and forth with a big player in the domain industry. He’s big enough to have had his own Yahoo ad feed at ... read more ...
Mon 9th February 2009
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Fabulous Follows a 80/20 Rule - Parking company moves to invite only model. Domain parking company and domain registrar Fabulous is no longer accepting web applications for its domain name parking services and wholesale registration accounts. It will only accept referrals going forward. In fact, the sign-up button at Fabulous.com has been removed. (Fabulous customers who wish to transfer domains to buyers can send them a link to open a retail account). You’re going to start seeing more of this ... read more ...
Sun 1st February 2009
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GoDaddy Promotes Its Own Service When Switching Nameservers - Domain registrar offers its own competing service when changing nameservers. Domain name registrar GoDaddy.com is promoting its own domain parking service “Cash Parking” to customers who attempt to change a domain’s nameservers to a competing domain parking company. If you have a domain name on GoDaddy’s name servers (which is the case whenever you register a new domain name or use forwarding) and try to switch to the nameservers of a domain parking company, ... read more ...
Wed 28th January 2009
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Only One Statistic Matters for Domain Parking - RPC, RPM, etc. mean nothing when comparing parking services. I came in to the “Domain Monetization 101 201″ session at DOMAINfest today near the end. But I caught a couple questions, one of which was “what three statistics should I look at most for my parked domains?” I was surprised when the first couple answers had to do with revenue per click, revenue per thousand (RPM), etc. A couple years ago I thought that too, but I now know it’s not the case. Thankfully, ... read more ...
Tue 13th January 2009
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ParkingJudge: Rate and Review Domain Parking Companies - Site gives domainers chance to rate domain name parking companies. I’ve met one of my New Years Resolutions thanks to the launch of ParkingJudge, where you can rate and review domain parking companies. The site works just like RegistrarJudge.com, which now has nearly 200 reviews of domain name registrars. Currently, there are very few quantified resources to figure out which domain parking services to use. There are forums, where people complain or pump up their ... read more ...
Tue 30th December 2008
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Top 10 Domain Name Wire Stories of 2008 - As the year crawls to a close, here’s a look back at the most viewed stories of 2008. Good riddance. That’s what most people are saying to 2008. After losing half their retirement savings, seeing the value of their homes plummet, and fearing for their futures, most people want to forget 2008 ever happened. But the domain name world survived. Here are the top 10 stories on Domain Name Wire for the year ranked by number of views. 1. Standard Tactics, LLC: How ... read more ...
Wed 3rd December 2008
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Get Ready for a Google Squeeze - Google is facing up to difficult times. Get ready for lower revenue shares. A few years ago I read an article with a quote from a Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) human resources executive. He was commenting on the company’s lavish perks and how they were unique to Google. When the reporter pointed out that many companies have offered similar perks, the executive responded something like, “Yes, but the difference is we won’t cut our perks when times are tough.” I ... read more ...
Thu 20th November 2008
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Marchex Scales Back Domain Parking Service - Sitebox rapidly scaling down as it is no longer strategic to company. Local search and advertising company Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) is scaling down its third party domain name parking service Sitebox. Company executives believe the service is no longer strategic to the company. Sitebox produced revenues of $5 million in the first half of the year, but less than $1.5 million in the third quarter. The company expects revenues to drop further to $0.5 million in the ... read more ...
Thu 23rd October 2008
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Parked Pages Differ in Load Time - Load times for parked domain names differ greatly. Most visitors to parked domain names hit the back button on their browser rather than clicking on a link. One way to ensure that visitors click the back button more often is to have parked pages that load very slowly. How many times have you visited a web site and clicked back because it took forever to load? I tested out the domain parking companies today to see how fast their parked pages load. I used a free ... read more ...
Wed 1st October 2008
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How’s a Financial Climate for Domains? - A domain parking update from ParkQuick’s Leonard Holmes. by Leonard Holmes, ParkQuick There has been some debate on how the current banking and financial crisis is affecting the domain industry.  Whether or not this specific crisis affects domains, the general economic slow-down is definitely having an effect.  While $2,000,000 $3,000,000 did change hands in Moniker’s T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York live domain auctions, this is down from $10,000,000 ... read more ...
Tue 26th August 2008
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Creative Thinking: Replycycle for Parked Domain Names - New service will help monetize emails to parked domains. Our friend Adam Strong over at Domain Name News has the scoop on a new product launching at TRAFFIC Brooklyn next month. Replycycle is a system for responding to misdirected e-mail, such as an e-mail sent to a parked domain name. This can create an additional monetization stream for parked domains — something that is sorely needed right now. If you think your parked domain names don’t receive e-mails, ... read more ...
Mon 25th August 2008
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GoldKey Gets Phished - Domain parking service hit with phishing attack. Domain parking service GoldKey.com was hit with a phishing attack earlier today. The perpetrator apparently used the typo domain goldKay.com to capture customer logins. The domain GoldKay.com was registered at NameCheap yesterday and is no longer resolving to a web site. GoldKey is one of three domain parking services owned by Name Media. Its other parking services include Active Audience and SmartName. This isn’t ... read more ...
Fri 15th August 2008
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Update: Domain Parking Still Converting - Here’s more proof that domain parking converts for advertisers. About a month ago I wrote about how the domain channel at Google was converting well for me, even though a number of advertisers would tell you otherwise. Now that I have a month more of data for my ad campaign at Google, the parking channel is still performing very well. In fact, it’s performing just as well as my ads that show up on Google and the Google search network. Content is also performing ... read more ...
Wed 13th August 2008
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Tucows: Domain Parking May Have Hit Bottom - Tucows’ says domain parking revenue is down, but it may be on the rebound. Tucows, a wholesale domain registrar and owner of 150,000 domains, saw its revenue from domain parking drop 12% in just one quarter, but CEO Elliot Noss says it may have hit bottom. “In terms of where’s the bottom, we’ve started to see a little bit of a pickup now so we may have hit the bottom,” said Noss on an earnings conference call Tuesday evening. Tucows direct navigation ... read more ...
Fri 1st August 2008
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5 Ways to Make More Money with Domain Parking - As domain parking revenue drops, sitting around and complaining won’t do you any good. Ask just about any domain owner and they’ll tell you domain parking revenue is down this year. There are a number of factors contributing to this, including changes by ad providers Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO). There are more changes on the way, too. So what can you do about it? Here are five ways you can reinvigorate your domain name parking earnings. 1. ... read more ...
Sat 19th July 2008
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Rumor Watch: Google to Restrict Domain Parking - Here’s an update on Google’s domain parking program. I usually don’t write about rumors, but Julia Mackenzie of IsItMeOrIsEveryoneElseStupid.com has never floated a rumor without it being true. She’s reporting that a reliable source informed her that Google is going to lay the hammer down on domain parking. Essentially, the company will only serve parking ads to domains it believes have a chance of receiving type-in traffic and conversions: This new algo ... read more ...
Wed 16th July 2008
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Surprise! Parked Domain Names Convert For Advertisers - Despite what an ill-informed lawyer thinks, parked domains convert well for advertisers. Yesterday, we learned of a lawyer who felt that domain parking can’t convert for advertisers because he didn’t have success spending $136.11 on parked domain advertising. I met an advertising network CEO a few weeks ago who said his blood boils when someone doesn’t get conversions and claims he received “bad” or “fraudulent” traffic. After looking into his advertisers’ ... read more ...
Wed 2nd July 2008
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Will Cost Per Action Replace Cost Per Click? - The future of cost-per-click is questionable. Cost-per-click advertising, such as Google Adwords, is a staple of the internet advertising industry. It is also the primary form of advertising used to monetize parked domain names. But will CPC give way to CPA (cost per action)? First, a little history. It used to be that many affiliate programs were actually CPC programs. You would sign up as an affiliate and the program would pay you a few cents for each click. ... read more ...
Tue 1st July 2008
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Instant eCommerce Sites – Beyond Domain Parking - Leonard Holmes of ParkQuick.com provides a domain monetization update. SmartName is the premium service from Name Media – the parent company of Active Audience and GoldKey. They purchased the SmartName service that was originally developed by Ari Goldberger and Larry Fischer in March of 2007. NameMedia quickly moved the parked domains to their new system that offers over 500 themes (including all of the themes available at Active Audience and GoldKey and more). ... read more ...
Wed 25th June 2008
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Overcoming RSS (Repetitive Statistics Syndrome) - A look at a common affliction among domainers. Thousands of people suffer daily from Repetitive Statistics Syndrome (RSS). RSS is an obsessive compulsive disorder that involves checking revenue statistics from programs such as Google Adsense and domain parking multiple times a day. RSS sufferers know that checking their statistics repeatedly will not increase the final revenue number at the end of the day, but they can’t bring themselves to stop checking stats. ... read more ...
Thu 19th June 2008
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Click Forensics, Publishers, Ad Networks Facing Traffic Quality Challenge - Meeting in Austin brings together constituents to discuss improving online advertising results — for everyone. The long term survival of domain name monetization — be it domain parking or otherwise — depends on giving advertisers bang for their buck. The past two days I attended a closed-door summit led by traffic quality experts Click Forensics that addressed delivering value to advertisers. The group discussed how everyone can work together to improve all ... read more ...
Tue 20th May 2008
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Domain Parking’s Future: No More Long Tail - Look for Google and Yahoo to cut out low traffic domains. I’m at the Admirals Club in Dallas, en route to Orlando for TRAFFIC. On the short flight from Austin I read the latest Forbes, which includes a short article about domain names. Titled “Bo Knows Rico”, the article discusses a lawsuit against Google that has, among other plaintiffs, Bo Jackson (same case as Vulcan Golf). The plaintiffs contend that Google is aiding cybersquatters and benefiting from ... read more ...