Tag Archives: parking

Mon 28th April 2014
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Domain parking is down, though not dead - Survey shows domain parking is still a key to the domain business, even if much smaller than before. Rook Media’s acquisition of DomainSponsor proves that the domain name parking market is still alive and kicking. Just not like it was many years ago. Despite pessimism and declining earnings, domain parking still makes up a big part of the domain investing market. 39% of survey takers reported an RPM (revenue per thousand) below $10, with 56% reporting below $20. ... read more ...
Mon 21st April 2014
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Rook Media acquires DomainSponsor - Oversee.net has sold DomainSponsor and its domain name portfolio to Rook Media. One of the largest domain name parking companies has been acquired. Rook Media has acquired domain name parking company DomainSponsor from Oversee.net, the companies confirmed today. DomainSponsor is one of the oldest domain parking companies, serving customers since 2002. Rook, on the other hand, just launched in 2011. Rook was founded by former employees of NameDrive, a parking company ... read more ...
Mon 14th April 2014
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Sedo hacked over a weekend - Intrusion resulted in confirmation emails sent to a “small number” of customers. Sedo was compromised over the weekend due to a security hole. This resulted in a number of registered Sedo users, including myself, receiving an email asking them to confirm their account. The confirmation email started: Dear Andrew, Thank you for becoming a Sedo member! In order to submit your offer for you must first verify that the email you provided is a valid email address. Sedo ... read more ...
Mon 31st March 2014
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5 questions to be answered during this week’s DomainFest - Attendance, new TLDs, and other questions to be answered this week. I’m writing this while airborne on my way to Los Angeles for this week’s DomainFest conference. Here are five questions that will be answered by the end of the week. 1. How many people will show up? DomainFest usually packs in 500+ people at its conference. That might be a challenge this year. The conference was moved back a couple months, announced late, and is part of a packed conference schedule ... read more ...
Sat 15th February 2014
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Afternic changes remuneration thresholds, ends Park & Sell remission program - Payment thresholds change for sales and parking platforms and rebate program ends. Afternic and domain name parking platform SmartName have changed their payment thresholds and options in the wake of GoDaddy’s acquisition. Afternic has also quietly shuttered its Park Sell rebate program. Payments For Afternic, the minimum domain sales payout for international wires is now $10,000 or more and comes with a $45 processing fee. Checks ($25 processing fee), PayPal, ... read more ...
Fri 14th February 2014
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Stone Temple Pilots to play DomainFest - STP on the bill for DomainFest 2014. DomainSponsor’s DomainFest conference is always known for legendary entertainment. The Playboy Mansion comes to mind. Renting our Universal Studios. In other words, over-the-top events when compared to other domain conferences. This year the conference has another great event, but in an entirely different category: Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington will play Tuesday, April 2 at a private event. The location will be ... read more ...
Thu 16th January 2014
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You competence find irony in what Sedo’s owner is doing now - Schumacher went from the business of delivering ads to blocking them. It’s been a few years since Tim Schumacher, co-founder of Sedo, left the company. You might be surprised to learn that, after creating one of the world’s largest domain parking ad companies, he’s now backing software that blocks internet users from seeing ads. Schumacher is an investor in the company behind Ad Block Plus, a browser plugin that blocks users from seeing most ads on a website. ... read more ...
Thu 9th January 2014
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Direct nav association files obvious focus for behest on domain parking traffic - Santa Monica company wants to patent optimized bidding on zero click domain parking traffic. Adrenalads, a direct navigation company based in Santa Monica, has filed a patent application for analyzing and bidding on zero click traffic. U.S. Patent application number 13/541767 (pdf) for “System and method for acquiring domain visitors on a parking service and redirecting to optimal advertisers” was filed in July 2012 and published today. The patent focuses on ... read more ...
Tue 17th December 2013
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Frank Schilling sets a theatre for 2014. More domain parking revenue? - Will Google pay more to domain name owners in 2014? Frank Schilling thinks it’s possible. Frank Schilling just sent a newsletter to DomainNameSales.com clients, and in it he makes a couple predictions for 2014. One is that new top level domain names will be a big deal. It’s no surprise that Schilling, who has invested tens of millions of dollars in new TLDs, would say this. But he also argues that existing second level domain name owners will benefit from the ... read more ...
Mon 9th December 2013
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How we destitute another click rascal (and auction fraud) scheme - A silly mistake tipped me off to a click fraud and pump-and-dump scheme. Every once in a while, someone running a click fraud scam slips up. And sometimes they slip up in a big way: by accidentally tipping me off about it. For example, In August this year I uncovered one such scam after digging around following a suspicious phone call from someone pretending to be with ICANN. The people behind the scam had been boasting about how they’re making so much money with ... read more ...
Tue 12th November 2013
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Sedo reports stability decrease in domain parking - Sedo cites domain parking woes for revenue drop. Sedo Holding has issued its preliminary results for the first nine months of the year. This is likely to be one of the last public reports from the company before it gets rolled up into United Internet. The company’s affiliate marketing division saw revenue growth, but the domain business (what you know of as Sedo) continued to decline. For the first nine months of 2013, the company had sales revenue of EUR 20.8 million, ... read more ...
Mon 11th November 2013
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GoTo.com is back! - The brand associated with the commercialization of pay-per-click search has found its way back to the internet. How’s this for a bit of nostalgia? Remember GoTo.com and its iconic green and yellow logo? It’s baaaack! If you weren’t around the domain and online advertising world in the late 90s, you might not be familiar with the site. GoTo.com basically invented the pay-per-click search marketing business that is the basis for Google’s search ads and became ... read more ...
Thu 7th November 2013
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Parking your domain name can harm – or assistance – in a UDRP - Which ads show up on a parked page can make the difference in a UDRP. Yesterday WIPO posted its decision in a UDRP for the DriveUPS.com domain name, finding in favor of the shipping company UPS and ordering the domain name transferred. This decision did not hinge on the fact that the domain was parked with ads related to shipping and delivery. It had more to do with the domain owner reaching out to UPS to try to sell it the domain name. But the parked page ads certainly ... read more ...
 
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Domain parking clawback dings Demand Media earnings, and initial demeanour during Rightside numbers - Company hit with parking clawback from a previous quarter. Ask any domain parking company about their top frustrations, and clawbacks will be high on the list. Basically, their upstream ad partner will clawback previously paid revenue based on traffic quality. This often happens after the parking customer has paid its partner. These clawbacks can apparently be quite big, as evidenced in today’s Demand Media earnings call. Speaking about a tough third quarter, Demand ... read more ...
Wed 2nd October 2013
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Sedo to go private as United Internet buys out co-founders - Sedo will no longer be a separate, publicly traded company. United Internet AG has raised its stake in Sedo Holding to 96.05% after buying out the co-founders’ shares at a price of 2.60 euros per share. United Internet plans to integrate Sedo Holding’s affiliate and domain business into its overall business. The company will initiate a “squeeze-out process” at Sedo over the coming weeks. Tim Schumacher, one of the founders of Sedo, released this statement: This ... read more ...
Mon 30th September 2013
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Domain parking association named to bad hosts list, but… - Sedo listed as top for phishing sites, which doesn’t make a lot of sense. HostExploit has released its latest World Hosts Report (which has been renamed from its previous moniker “Bad Hosts”). Domain name parking company Sedo shows up ranked #2 for phishing sites. Now, you may be scratching your head and asking “how does a domain parking service get nailed for phishing?”. It’s most likely due to old data. Parking companies get ensnared in this report because ... read more ...
Fri 13th September 2013
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How to send your domains to “for sale only” landers during DNS - More interested in selling your domains than earning PPC income? Here’s how to send domain names to sales only landers at DNS. A lot of domainers have asked domain parking companies and marketplaces to offer landing pages dedicated solely to selling domain names — not generating revenue from PPC. There are a number of reasons you might want to do this for a domain name. An obvious one is that you think a sales-focused lander will generate more leads for the domain ... read more ...
Fri 6th September 2013
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Jim Grace joins Team Internet - Domain monetization company hires Jim Grace as Director of Business Development. Team Internet AG, the company behind domain parking service ParkingCrew and zero click solution DNTX, has hired Jim Grace as Director of Business Development. Grace was most recently Director of Monetization for Domain Holdings. Prior to that he spent seven years at Oversee.net, parent company of domain parking company DomainSponsor. “[COO] Stefan [Wiegard] and I have known Jim for ... read more ...
Fri 30th August 2013
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Domain parking: reduction is more? - SmartName drops most templates to focus on the best performing ones. It used to be that domain name parking companies bragged about how many templates they had. The templates had different ad locations, fonts, and most importantly, graphics related to the domain name’s topic. Which is why I find a recent move by SmartName/Afternic interesting. The company is dropping many of its templates and will stick with just five (see graphic). In a notice sent to clients, ... read more ...
Wed 14th August 2013
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Sedo income down 17% though miscarry in series of domains for sale and parked - Sedo’s revenue continues downward trend but company reports a rebound in domains for sale and parked since the end of 2012. Sedo Holding’s domain marketing segment, which most in the domain name industry know as simply Sedo, posted a sharp revenue drop in the first six months of 2013 compared to 2012. The company reported today that revenue was down 17% in the first half of the year at €13.7. Domain sales were fairly steady compared to last year, but the company ... read more ...
Wed 31st July 2013
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Whistles.co.uk owners files UDRP on Whistles.com - Parked page’s contents probably upset clothing company. Whistles Limited, a UK womens’ clothing brand, has filed a UDRP against Whistles.com. The company’s website is Whistles.co.uk. A B.S. filing against a generic domain name? Maybe. But this is one of those cases in which the domain’s owner should have been more careful with domain name parking. Here’s what’s on the site right now: This reminded me of some recent debate about the dangers of parking ... read more ...
Mon 29th July 2013
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Oversee.net launches TrafficMatch to representation domain trade to advertisers - TrafficMatch promotes domain name traffic to advertisers. Oversee.net, the parent company of DomainSponsor, somewhat quietly launched TrafficMatch last month. TrafficMatch pitches the company’s 300 million monthly visitors direct to advertisers – and a big part of that 300 million is domain name traffic. Here’s how the TrafficMatch website explains it: TrafficMatch is a leading provider of high value online traffic. With nearly 300 million visitors passing ... read more ...
Mon 22nd July 2013
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DomainSponsor Vs.InternetTraffic.com Our Two Month Test Yields Shocking Results: DS Wins - Back in April we were approached by DomainSponsor.com to do a test on their parking system.  DomainSponsor.com said they had spent a lot of time and money on revamping their parking system, had all new people working for them and wanted to know how their new and improved system would stack up against Frank Schilling’s InternetTraffic.com I agreed to do a test with about 19,000 domain names I had parked over at InternetTraffic.com (IT) with two conditions; one, they had to guarantee me the earnings ... read more ...
Tue 9th July 2013
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Ammar Kubba explains Aftermarket.com’s new Park & Sell - Aftermarket.com offers new domain parking program integrated with sales platform. Last month Aftermarket.com, a Thought Convergence company, launched its new Park Sell program. Clients can park their domains with Aftermarket and integrate them into its domain name sales platform. I reached out to Thought Convergence CEO Ammar Kubba to learn more about the new offering. DNW: Will TrafficZ, Thought Convergence’s existing domain parking platform, remain a separate ... read more ...
Tue 25th June 2013
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ZeroPark revs adult zero-click monetization for domainers - ZeroPark formally unveiled itself in a big way to the domain community during Webfest in February. Although the zero-click domain monetization company is relatively new, it has some familiar faces. You may recognize ZeroPark Director of Business Development Mateusz Drela from previous domain conferences, when he worked for Elephant Traffic. Elephant Traffic’s customer base was later acquired by Team Internet AG, which rolled it into its DNTX platform. Drela then ... read more ...