Tag Archives: parking

Mon 24th June 2013
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Sedo updates remoteness process due to Google changes - Privacy policy explains that it may release your personal information to Google. Sedo sent a notice to its parking customers today to inform them that it has updated its privacy policy. The company has added a line to its policy that states: It may be necessary to disclose your stored information, such as first and last name, company name, address, email and/or phone number, to relevant domain monetization advertising partners for the purpose of providing you such ... read more ...
Tue 18th June 2013
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Customize a Sedo parked page with your possess sales channel - Sedo lets some clients send sales leads to different channels than Sedo’s marketplace. An alert reader came across a parked page using Sedo that caught his attention. Rather than Sedo’s standard message “The domain example.com may be for sale by its owner!” with a link to the listing on Sedo, the message looked like this: Essentially, the owner of the domain is using Sedo parking but collecting sales leads itself. I reached out to Sedo, which confirmed that ... read more ...
Mon 10th June 2013
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Kevin Murphy discovers type-in traffic - Murphy registers domain name related to PRISM scandal. It gets traffic. Domain Incite author Kevin Murphy is a lot of things. He’s a great writer, an expert in all things ICANN… What he’s not is a domainer. But he “dabbled” in it yesterday with his registration of TurnkeyTyranny.com. The term was uttered by Edward Snowden, who leaked the NSA Prism documents. Murphy tweeted this afternoon that the domain has received 130 hit in the past 12 hours. But, in ... read more ...
Fri 24th May 2013
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Aftermarket.com to mix parking and selling - Thought Convergence’s domain marketplace will integrate domain parking and the company has switched ad feed providers. Aftermarket.com, the domain name sales platform by Thought Convergence, is getting ready to launch a combined parking and selling platform. In a blog post today, the company said it will start offering a parking platform integrated into Aftermarket.com. Domain owners will be able to park their domain names and funnel purchase inquiries through Aftermarket.com. Although ... read more ...
Wed 15th May 2013
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Some rays of wish during Sedo? - While Sedo’s earnings continue on a downward path, some metrics point to improvements. In a lot of ways, Sedo Holding’s quarterly financial report (pdf) published yesterday was more of the same. The company saw its performance at Sedo weaken, while its affiliate business affilinet grew a bit. But there were also a couple positive metrics for Sedo. The number of domains listed on Sedo increased by 1.7 million and it also increased the number of parked domains on ... read more ...
Mon 1st April 2013
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Google says parked domains = spam - Google’s spam page claims parked domains are web spam. Here’s something interesting to start your week. Google has a page about “Fighting Spam” referring to pages designed to trick search engines such as cloaking and hidden text. Listed right there underneath “Types of Spam” is this: It’s completely understandable that Google doesn’t want to index parked domains. But to label them as spam? I take two issues with that. 1. In order to be web spam, the ... read more ...
Fri 22nd March 2013
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First signs of Google’s new domain parking customer marker program… - Internet Traffic asks customers to identify themselves as part of new Google initiative. One of the topics discussed extensively in the hallways at Webfest this year was changes Google is making to its parking program. Although I don’t have all of the details, the bottom line is that Google is making an effort to better identify who is actually parking domains using its ad feed. This may involve steps to identify people across the various parking companies that ... read more ...
Thu 21st March 2013
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Sedo’s earnings: domain business shrinks 18% as associate business grows - Sedo’s domain parking business continues to drag on overall company. Sales of domains are down, too. Sedo Holding released its Annual Report yesterday (pdf), and the numbers for the domain name business are fairly dismal. Sedo Holding has two parts: domain marketing (Sedo) and affiliate marketing (affilinet). First, the good news: Affilinet saw its revenue grow 17.7% year-over-year. Now, the bad news: The bad news: Sales at Sedo in 2012 droped 17.9%. Revenue from ... read more ...
Tue 19th February 2013
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Survey: domainers have a new favorite domain parking company - InternetTraffic selected as top domain parking company. Less than two years after opening his own domain parking platform, domain investor Frank Schilling is at the top of the heap. Participants in Domain Name Wire’s 8th annual industry survey have selected InternetTraffic as the top domain parking service. Data show that the domain parking business is still fragmented. InternetTraffic received 22% of the vote but seven companies received at least 6%. Here are the ... read more ...
Thu 14th February 2013
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New domain parking association adds a free twist - New domain parking company offers charity donation and no cost brokerage services. A domain industry vet has started a new parking company with a charitable twist. Jakob Knightly, formerly with NameDrive, is launching Rikimu.com next week. At a high level, Rikimu is a domain parking service with a charitable element: the company donates 5% of its share of revenue to charity. Currently you can choose from three different charities. Two of them are domain industry favorites: ... read more ...
Tue 5th February 2013
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DomainSponsor releases new iPhone and Android Apps - Updated app includes notifications of domains for sale. DomainSponsor today announced the release of its updated apps on both Apple and Android. The app has a number of features, as explained by Oversee.net VP GM Internet Monetization Dwayne Walker this morning. Some of the features are exactly what you’d expect on a domain parking app: Account summaries Domain level statistics Portfolio level statistics Quick view of top 100 domains Data by country But one feature ... read more ...
Tue 29th January 2013
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3 domain companies group adult to give divided 4,000 domains during Webfest - Giveaway includes ten domain names per person. Above.com, Rook Media and ParkingCrew are teaming up for a unique promotion during next week’s Webfest: they’re giving away 4,000 domain names. The promotion lets up to 400 people get an account with 10 domain names. The domains are randomly selected from expired domains that receive traffic and have been parked with Rook Media and/or ParkingCrew. I think this is a smart promotion. It allows these companies to get ... read more ...
Tue 22nd January 2013
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2013 and domain parking: who’s best? - Will newcomers or long time parking favorites top this year’s list? The domain name parking industry has seen incredible upheaval over the past five years. 2012 was no different, with a surprising number of recently-launched parking companies making a big name for themselves. So which domain parking company is best? Answer that question in Domain Name Wire’s eighth annual Domain Name Wire Survey. You’ll also be asked these other questions about domain parking: – ... read more ...
Wed 9th January 2013
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Have we finished a domain parking review lately? - Make sure your domains are pointing to places where they create value for you. I consider myself a fairly organized person. But when it comes to making sure my domains are parked correctly, apparently I’m a little lax. I just audited a few hundred of my domain names to check their nameservers. I was surprised at what I found: 1. Some of my domains were pointing to Go Daddy “coming soon” pages. 2. Others pointed to web site generator systems that long ago stopped ... read more ...
Fri 14th December 2012
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2012 Impact Stories: Frank Schilling becomes a use provider - Schilling shakes up domain parking — and that’s not all he wants to do. Last year domain name investor Frank Schilling signed a domain parking contract with Google and opened up a new domain parking company, Internet Traffic. The service instantly attracted some of the largest domain name investors. There are two key reasons people rushed to try the service: 1. People know, like, and trust Frank. 2. Frank gave a very high revenue share. Although people were willing ... read more ...
Thu 15th November 2012
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Sedo reports earnings: domain parking still a drag, income down 18% - Sedo’s domain parking business continues to struggle. Sedo Holding just reported earnings (pdf) for the first three quarters of 2012, and the message is more of the same: domain parking is still a drag. Overall, Sedo Holding AG grew revenue €98.7 million in the first nine months of 2012. That’s up 7.3% compared to the same period last year. But earnings are struggling, and the domain marketing segment (i.e. Sedo) takes a lot of the blame. Sedo.com generated ... read more ...
Wed 7th November 2012
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Matt Cutts: don’t park your domain right before rising a web site - Cutts recommends taking down a parking page about a month before launching a new site. Google web spam czar Matt Cutts just published a video in which he asks himself a question (rather than taking it from the community): should I keep a domain name parked before I launch a web site? In short, Cutts says no. He works in a reference to eNom’s backpack girl and then goes on to explain that Google has a filter to try to keep parked domain names out of its search results. This ... read more ...
Thu 18th October 2012
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DOMAINfest rebrands as Webfest Global - DOMAINfest gets a new name as it branches out from domains. It was only a matter of time. Oversee.net’s DOMAINfest has new name beginning with next year’s show: Webfest Global. This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. Although the conference is run by Oversee.net’s DomainSponsor division, the subject matter has shifted in recent years. It’s not all about domains any more; it’s about lead gen, search engine optimization, affiliate marketing, mobile and web ... read more ...
Mon 20th August 2012
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How browser changes are creation a hole in approach navigation traffic - Browser features change the way people navigate the web. Last week I wrote about how Sedo’s domain name parking business continues to struggle. The company cites a few reasons for the decline, including “advances made in browser technologies, which alters the circumstances surrounding monetization in the parking business”. There’s no doubt that browsers are blurring the lines between typing in a domain name and a search. What that means for type-in traffic ... read more ...
Tue 14th August 2012
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Sedo says domain parking stability to decline, writes off EUR 57.1 million - Company says intense competition and overall decline in domain parking are hurting its business. Sedo Holding, which runs Sedo and affiliate marketing company Affilinet, recently released first half financial results. Last month I wrote about how Sedo had lowered expectations for domain parking. Now the company says its domain parking business trajectory is worse than expected. The Sedo segment of Sedo Holding declined 17.9% in the first half of 2012 compared to 2011. ... read more ...
Tue 7th August 2012
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Why domain parking companies get named on “bad host” lists - Old data leads to parking companies landing on malware lists. Last October Oversee.net was named the “#1 Bad Host” by HostExploit, a group that compiles data about malware and other nefarious things on the web. It’s not the first time a domain parking company or registrar has been called out by HostExploit. So why is it that domain parking companies land on these bad lists? At a high level, it’s all about old data. “There’s a big misunderstanding about ... read more ...
Mon 11th June 2012
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Sedo adjusts gain superintendence down, though there’s a china backing for domain parkers - Sedo paying out more to top domain parking clients. Sedo Holding has lowered its earnings forecast for the current year due to “confirming margin development in Domain Marketing in the second quarter 2012.” While this may seem like a bad thing, there’s a silver lining for some of Sedo’s larger domain parking clients. When asked for comment, Sedo.com CEO Tobias Flaitz told Domain Name Wire: Sedo Holding AG is the publicly traded parent company of Sedo and our ... read more ...
Wed 30th May 2012
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Oversee.net’s fifth worker earnings to DomainSponsor role - Mike Song, an early Oversee.net employee, has returned to the company as an account manager. Song was hired by the company in 2003 after it launched the DomainSponsor domain parking service. He was the fifth employee of the company. He later held positions in operations and portfolio acquisitions with DomainSponsor. Song left Oversee.net in 2008 to join MediaTrust, according to his LinkedIn profile. At MediaTrust he was a manager of business development. He will report ... read more ...
Wed 11th April 2012
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Jim Grace jumps from DomainSponsor to Domain Holdings - Long time DomainSponsor account manager moves to Domain Holdings. A well known face (and mustache) in the domain industry is changing jobs. Jim Grace has left Oversee.net, parent company of DomainSponsor, after over seven years. He will be joining Domain Holdings as Director of Monetization. Grace will be responsible for growing the company’s Domain Power monetization platform. Domain Holdings was founded by long time domainer Chad Folkening as well as John Ferber, ... read more ...
Fri 30th March 2012
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Marchex shutting down domain parking program - Marchex to no longer park domains for customers. Marchex is officially shutting down its domain parking program for clients. Wait. What’s that, you say? They have a parking platform? Yes, but they’ve been in the process of scaling it back since at least 2008. In the first half of 2008 it grossed $5 million in revenues from its parking platform called SiteBox. It anticipated revenues of only $500,000 for the fourth quarter of 2008. I’m not aware of anyone who ... read more ...