Sedo updates stats and issues credit from DDOS - Domain parking company resolves stats issues. Domain parking company Sedo was hit with a DDOS attack on March 9. This caused a few hours of downtime, and then some difficulties with monetizing “related links” on its parking pages. Today the company announced that it has fully resolved the problems and compensated publishers. Customer parking daily statistics from for March 9th-19th have been updated. Customers have also been compensated for the three hours of ... read more ...

Retargeted ads will boost domain parking revenue - Retargeted ads increase the relevant ad inventory on parked domains. Over the past 6-12 months I’ve notice a sharp increase in the number of Google Adsense ads I see that are retargeted. Instead of being related to the topic of the page I’m viewing, the ads are for a site I previously visited. The same thing is happening with parked domain names. Retargeted ads are starting to pop up on them more and more. Here’s an example of a parked page I landed on today. ... read more ...

Company behind ProTrada releases web site growth apparatus DevName.com - DevName helps domainers develop their domain names. Winged Media, the company behind domain auction and expired domain tool ProTrada, has released a new domain development system called DevName.com. Like many auto-web site developers, DevName takes the theme of your domain name and pulls in related content to create a web site. The company claims to have a superior semantic engine to better target this content. [Update: DevName tells me that, while automatic technology ... read more ...

Co-CEO shakeup during Oversee.net: Domeyer is CEO, Morrow out - Company settles on a CEO. That didn’t last long. Oversee.net’s co-CEO arrangement with Debra Domeyer and Scott Morrow is over. Domeyer has been promoted to (sole) CEO and Morrow is leaving the company. Oversee.net’s co-president and then co-ceo set up had many people scratching their heads. The only times I’ve seen a co-CEO situation is when two companies merge, and one CEO ends up leaving soon thereafter. In other cases it shows that the company can’t make ... read more ...

How we done a $2,333 RPM on a parked domain - Don’t just consider your click revenue. Too often as domainers we focus on how much money our parking company pays us for clicks. But that doesn’t take into consideration the whole value stream of parking. What other value do you get from your parked domains? Let me give you an example. I recently sold LinkDetective.com for $1,400 through Afternic. The domain also happened to be parked with the company. In the past 60 days I made precisely $0 from parking the ... read more ...

Domain parking income still dropping, reduction than $10 RPM - That sinking feeling. Domain investors continue to report falling domain parking revenue, and most people report earning less than a $10 RPM. That’s according to greater than 1,000 people who answered the parking survey questions on the 7th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey. While a lot of people reported neutral domain parking revenue in 2011 compared to 2010, and some reported greater revenue, this graph tells the tale: Is this just a case of the small guys getting ... read more ...

Four newcomers among Top 10 domain parking companies - Sedo is top parking company, but many newcomers rank in the top 10. Sedo and SedoPro are the top domain name parking companies according to respondents in Domain Name Wire’s 7th annual domain name industry survey. But a lot of new parking companies are challenging it. In absolute numbers, Sedo was ranked top. Google’s self-serve Adsense for Domains program, which is closing, ranked second. A good way to look at the parking rankings is to consider what percentage ... read more ...

Google kills “hosted” Adsense for Domains program - Program introduced in 2008 will be phased out. Google is ending its Adsense for Domains program that allowed users of its online Adsense program to park their domain names. The company recommends that customers migrate their parked domain names to a domain name parking company. A message sent to effected publishers this morning includes a link to a migration guide, although that link does not appear functional at this time. [Update: the link now works.] Here’s how ... read more ...

Sedo adds 0 click, accepts offers on “buy now” domains - Sedo changes TOS to reflect changes. Sedo sent a notice to customers today about changes to its terms of service. Although I haven’t read the entire revised TOS, the company highlights three key changes: 1. Buyers have the ability to submit offers on fixed price listings below the “buy now” price. This could be good, but it’s all about the execution. If it’s clear to buyers that they can offer something less than the asking price then it could defeat the ... read more ...

HostExploit says Oversee.net is improving, creation a box study - HostExploit applauds Oversee.net for fixing problems that landed it at top spot at recent “Bad Hosts” list. HostExploit, a group that compiles a list of what it calls “Bad Hosts”, no longer lists Oversee.net as the #1 bad host. In its fourth quarter report, the group says Oversee.net is now ranked as the #12 bad host. Why? It’s kind of hard to tell. Last quarter I reached out to both Oversee.net and HostExploit about the ranking. I heard back from neither ... read more ...

IAC sells Sendori for $3 million - IAC’s sponsored listing/traffic monetization unit sold. IAC has sold its Sendori unit for a total consideration of $3 million, nearly three years after buying the company, according to a recent SEC filing. When Sendori launched, it provided a way for domain name owners to monetize their domain names without requiring domain visitor to click on ads. Instead, domain visitors are automatically forwarded to relevant advertisers’ sites. Sendori’s consumer facing ... read more ...

How to import your Parked comment into DomainApps - Manage your old Parked.com and WhyPark accounts in one interface. Earlier this month WhyPark announced it was changing its name to DomainApps. The name change made since, especially since the company had been acquired by Parked.com a couple years ago. WhyPark is kind of a derogatory term to parking companies, after all. But Parked.com clients were surprised to see Parked.com basically disappear yesterday. Sure, the face of the company — Donny Simonton — had left. ... read more ...

Search spend to grow 15%-20% in 2012 though CPC down - Rise of mobile has big affect on CPCs. I just reviewed Efficient Frontier’s Q4 report for online advertising, which includes predictions for 2012. The good news? The company predicts search spend will increase 15%-20% in 2012. On the downside for domain parkers, CPC will decrease 4% on top of 5% Quarter-over-quarter that they reported in Q4. To be fair, this isn’t an across the board drop in CPC. A lot of it is attributed to an increase in mobile ad clicks, which ... read more ...

Apparently a lot of people have nonetheless to switch to DNS parking - Google will cut you off at the end of the year. The “deadline” to change your domains parked on Google parking services from URL forwarding to DNS has passed, but apparently a lot of people haven’t made the switch yet. Sedo sent an email out to customers this week encouraging them to comply with the changes. Apparently the final, drop dead deadline is January 1. According to the email, Google tested not monetizing URL forwarded domains for three day in the middle ... read more ...

It’s CyberMonday. How is your domain traffic? - Traffic to product related domains should swell today. Today is CyberMonday, a name coined by the National Retail Federation to promote online buying for the holiday season. The idea is that everyone is back at work after Thanksgiving and Black Friday, and that means they’ll do a lot of online shopping. In 2006 comScore measured $610 million in online commerce on CyberMonday. Last year it measured over a billion dollars. This means that your “product” domain ... read more ...

Above.com adds 3 new parking companies - Three additional parking companies added to domain rotation system. Domain name parking optimization system Above.com has integrated three new parking companies into its platform: Voodoo, ParkingCrew, and TheParkingPlace. It’s certainly interesting to see new parking companies pop up on the radar given all of the turmoil in industry; you could argue that these companies are appearing because of the challenges domainers face. Voodoo and ParkingCrew use standard pay-per-click ... read more ...

Retail CPCs Up, Finance Clicks Cost Less - How are your parking pages doing? If you’ve noticed your finance parked domains are hitting headwinds lately, you won’t be surprised by new data released today by Efficient Frontier. Efficient Frontier, which manages some of the biggest pay-per-click spending in the industry, is reporting a sharp increase in the amount advertisers are paying for clicks in the retail industry. Finance has declined. The CPC for retail was 56 cents in October, up from just 46 cents ... read more ...

Sedo Switches to Estimated Earnings for Domain parking - Sedo to start showing estimated parking revenue; audited numbers displayed in about 48 hours. On November 1 Sedo will change its domain parking statistics to an estimated earnings system. This means they will display estimate earnings at first and then actual earnings from Google in 2 business days. This means your reported earnings might change. Here’s a message Sedo just sent out: 1) Adjusted earnings: This change means that the “Earnings” statistic shown ... read more ...

HostExploit Names Oversee.net #1 Bad Host - Group releases its latest list of “bad” hosts. HostExploit, which previously put the heat on eNom, now says Oversee.net is the “#1 Bad Host”. The group compared data from 11 sources on a number of “bad” things that can be hosted, ranging from phishing servers to infected web sites. The group’s report for Q3 2011 ranks Oversee.net worst overall, up from 9 last quarter. Oversee.net rated worst for badware and infected web sites. The badware issue is interesting; ... read more ...