Tag Archives: parking

Wed 27th October 2010
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Oversee.net Starts New Technology Blog - Blog chronicles engineering challenges of large online networks. What’s it like building technology for a business that sees over 300 million unique visitors each month? A new blog will help shed some light. Oversee.net’s engineering team has just started a new blog called Regularly Expressed. In one of the first blog posts, Oversee.net Director of Technology and Program Management for Monetization Terrence Lui discusses the traffic the company deals with: “…Oversee.net ... read more ...
Thu 21st October 2010
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50% of Ad Traffic Shifted to Microsoft By End of Week - The great migration to Microsoft has begun. This is a critical week in the transition of pay-per-click advertising traffic in the Yahoo-Microsoft alliance. As of yesterday morning Yahoo had shifted more than 30% of ad serving to Microsoft AdCenter instead of its own search marketing ad console. By the end of the week the company expects to have shifted 50%-60%. There’s no doubt that some smaller advertisers won’t make the transition over to Microsoft. But ... read more ...
Sat 9th October 2010
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Microsoft Time Change Adds Headache to Yahoo Switchover - Reporting timezone changes with search alliance. Anyone who has a parking company using a Yahoo feed and all stats services have an added headache to deal with thanks to the switchover from Yahoo to Microsoft. Until now both Yahoo and Google reported stats based on Pacific time. With the switchover Yahoo/Microsoft stats will now be reported at UTC/GMT. This is only a one time headache for some companies, such as parking providers, that need to adjust their stats ... read more ...
Fri 8th October 2010
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Elephant Orchestra Breaks Out during DOMAINfest - Web startup opens up its doors during conference in Prague. Elephant Orchestra has been a relatively quiet company in the domain name space. Sure, it released Elephant Traffic and presented at DOMAINfest in January. But it used DOMAINfest Prague, where the company is located, to really unveil itself. I checked out the company’s offices this week. The company started in a small apartment, moved into a small office, and then started breaking down the walls to expand ... read more ...
Fri 24th September 2010
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DNW Certified Stats Adds SedoPro and DomainAdvertising - Two more parking companies added to parking stats verification service. Today DNW Certified Stats added support for SedoPro accounts and DomainAdvertising. Now you can easily share stats for your parked domain names at 8 different parking companies. SedoPro is the advanced parking program offered by Sedo. Users must have at least 1,000 domain names or $300 in monthly revenue to qualify. If you are interested in a SedoPro account and meet the qualifications, please ... read more ...
Wed 25th August 2010
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Google May Change Domain Parking Requirements - DNS parking may be required in the future. A few days ago Sedo informed its customers that its primary advertising provider (read: Google) may change the way it allows domains to be parked. URL forwarding will be out and all domains will need to be parked using DNS. This change has been rumored for a while and likely has to do with tighter control and transparency for parked domains, as well as changes to how parked ads are served technically. According to the communication ... read more ...
Thu 8th July 2010
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7,000 WhyPark Domain Apps Installed in Just 2 Days - Domain Apps off to strong start. Just two days after WhyPark released its new Domain Apps, customers have installed 7,000 apps on their WhyPark domain names, WhyPark founder Craig Rowe told me this morning. That’s a strong start, but Rowe is working on ways to make it even easier to add the content-rich, interactive apps to domain names. “We have a bulk add feature to add apps to multiple sites,” he explained. “The next step is to map as many categories ... read more ...
Wed 7th July 2010
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SedoPro Event to Go on World Tour - Company takes its acclaimed Pro events on the road. Sedo is one of the most international companies in the domain name industry, so it’s fitting that the company will soon be taking its popular SedoPro events on a world tour. Until now, Sedo has organized annual SedoPro Partner Forums in luxurious locations alternating between the United States and Europe each year. Now regional events will be held on 4 continents and in 7 cities throughout the upcoming year. ... read more ...
Tue 6th July 2010
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WhyPark Officially Launches Domain Apps - Domain parking alternative releases major upgrade today. I’ve been excited about WhyPark’s Domain Apps since WhyPark founder Craig Rowe first started talking with me about them at Domainer Mardi Gras. He then gave me a sneak peek at TRAFFIC in Vancouver. Today they are available to install on your WhyPark domains. Domain Apps let you instantly ad relevant content modules/pages to your domain names, and some of them help you earn money, too. Want to pull in ... read more ...
Mon 28th June 2010
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WhyPark Builds Trust Through Small Payment Error - Domain company makes a small error, but builds trust in the process. Let’s face it, the domain name business is based on trust. One of these areas of trust is for parking company affiliate programs. As an affiliate of numerous parking companies, I really have no way of knowing if I’m being paid my actual share of referrals. I just have to trust that the parking company is playing straight. I received a pleasant surprise in my inbox this morning from Craig Rowe ... read more ...
Thu 24th June 2010
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Domain Parking Scammers Get Aggressive - As parking companies get more sophisticated, scammers get creative. Ask any domain name parking company what their number one nuisance is and they’ll say fraud. Click fraud is big, but it all starts with trying to get an account at the parking companies. One large parking company told me it approves fewer than 1% of the applications it gets. They’re not trying to be selective; it’s just that 99% of the applicants are trying to set up accounts to perpetrate ... read more ...
Fri 16th April 2010
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New Google Ad Formats Could Help Domain Name Parking - Google trying new ad formats — could they land on a parked domain near you? During the past two quarters Google has been rolling out a number of new ad formats for search ads on Google.com. On yesterday’s investor conference call, the company explained a few of them. Site Links – these came online in Q4, and basically deep link to sections of an advertiser’s web site. For example, here’s an ad for Toys R Us: Product Links – ads for specific products ... read more ...
Tue 13th April 2010
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5 Alternatives to Traditional Domain Name Parking - Parking revenue got you down? Here are 5 alternatives to try. Here are five alternatives to traditional pay-per-click domain parking. RootOrange – RootOrange will lease your domain name on a local basis to multiple parties. In theory, this leasing will provide you with a steady income stream that should top what you can achieve by using the domain at an international-only level. Check out DivorceLawyer.com for an example. Shopping Feeds – if you have a product ... read more ...
Mon 12th April 2010
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Sedo Launches Domain Advertising Network - Large parking company starts direct-to-advertiser solution. Sedo, one of the largest domain name parking companies, has launched a new ad network to allow advertisers to place paid links directly on its inventory of six million domain names. The new service is called SedoDNA. SedoDNA cuts out one of the middle men (i.e. Google) for placing ads on domain names. Traditionally, companies create ads on Google or Yahoo, which are then syndicated to parking companies ... read more ...
Wed 3rd March 2010
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How Domain Name Monetization is Changing - A look at where we’re headed for domain monetization. It’s no secret that the traditional form of domain name monetization — PPC parking — has seen a decline over the past three years. Nonetheless, this form of monetization is still the best option for most domain names. Certain segments of domain names can do better through other monetization channels, however. There are basically two different efforts going on in the evolution of domain monetization: ... read more ...
Tue 23rd February 2010
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Sedo and Parked.com Tops for Domain Name Parking - Familiar faces top results from survey. Sedo and Parked.com were selected as the best domain name parking companies in the 5th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey. Sedo took top honors with 23% of the vote, followed by Parked.com at 18%. Here are the top five vote-getters: 1. Sedo 23% 2. Parked.com 18% 3. NameDrive 13% 4. SmartName 6% 5. DomainSponsor and Google Adsense for Domains 6% SmartName is new to the list this year. The company has combined its three parking ... read more ...
Thu 18th February 2010
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NameDrive Launches Japanese Language Parking Platform - Domain parking company to launch Japanese parking platform. Domain name parking company NameDrive will launch a Japanese-language parking platform tomorrow. NameDrive has partnered with ICANN-accredited and .JP-accredited domain registrar WIXI to provide the parking program for the Japanese market. It is designed for owners of domain names in Japan or domains using the Japanese language. Founded in 2005, NameDrive has been one of the major parking companies to ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo-Microsoft Benefits for Domain Parking Closer to Fruition - Yahoo-Microsoft payday for domainers is finally within view. It’s getting closer. Yahoo and Microsoft have announced they’ve cleared U.S. and European regulatory requirements for their search partnership. The first change will be that Bing’s search results will start showing up on Yahoo search pages. That means one less search engine to optimize for. The good news for domain name parking is that later this year — or perhaps in early 2011 — the Yahoo ... read more ...
Wed 10th February 2010
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Survey: Most Domain Owners Making Less than $20 RPM - Has domain name parking hit bottom? How much are your parked domain names earning? If you make $20 or more RPM (revenue per thousand visits), consider yourself lucky. The 5th Annual Domain Name Wire survey shows that 60% of domain name owners are making less than a $20 RPM, and a whopping 40% are making less than $10 per thousand visits. The good news? Those numbers are in line with last year. Perhaps domain parking revenue has bottomed out? 35% of respondents ... read more ...
Wed 3rd February 2010
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GoldKey Domain Sold, Customers Need to Change DNS - NameMedia sells domain name from legacy domain parking service. NameMedia has been merging its domain parking platforms for a couple months, but a number of domain owners have yet to make necessary changes to their domains on the NameMedia platform. In particular, GoldKey and ActiveAudience accounts have been upgraded to SmartName. NameMedia sold the Goldkey.com domain name at the beginning of the year, meaning that domains parked on ns1.goldkey.com are no longer ... read more ...
Sun 24th January 2010
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SmartName Launches Content Site System, Upgrades Accounts - NameMedia launches SEO-friendly content system and upgrades domain name parking accounts. Domain name parking company SmartName has launched a new content parking system, and has upgraded GoldKey and ActiveAudience accounts to take advantage of the new system. The new content system enables domain owners to create content-filled web sites on their domain names with the click of a few buttons. The content web sites pull in external news and blog feeds and create a ... read more ...
Wed 13th January 2010
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Yahoo Gets Patent for Domain Parking Optimization - Yahoo gets a whopper of a patent for domain name parking optimization. Yahoo, one of the largest providers of advertising to parked domain names, has filed a patent application been granted a patent for optimizing the keyword links on “two-click” domain parking pages. U.S. patent 7,647,316 (pdf) for “Link Optimization” was filed March 5, 2007, and issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office yesterday. It describes a system that optimizes the keyword links ... read more ...
 
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Google Adsense for Domains Expands Use of Keyword Hints - Self-serve domain parking program increases use of keyword hints. Google Adsense for Domains “online”, the self-serve domain monetization offering for individual domain name owners, is expanding its use of keyword hints. Keyword hints are keyword suggestions provided by domain owners when they submit their domain names to Google Adsense. As Google explains it: These keywords are suggestions supplied to Google by domain owners about the types of content users ... read more ...
Tue 8th December 2009
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New (Lower) Click Pricing Coming to Yahoo Parking Next Quarter - Changes at Yahoo! are just around the corner. A new categorization of types of Yahoo advertising traffic, thanks to a class action lawsuit, is on tap to start early next quarter. With the release, Yahoo advertising customers will be able to choose between only getting Yahoo Search traffic or getting traffic from partners as well. Customers will be able to place premiums or, more likely, discounts on partner traffic. While this is no different from what Google offers ... read more ...
Sun 6th December 2009
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Root Orange Creates New Geo-Based Domain Leasing Option - New service leases domains based on physical location. Visit the web site DivorceLawyer.com and you might get a message like this: Are you trying to reach customers in Austin TX? Make ‘divorcelawyer.com’ yours today! Contact lease@rootorange.com to see how affordable leasing this domain can be. The DivorceLawyer.com domain name is being leased based on geographic location. If you’re a New York divorce lawyer, you could capture all of the type-ins and other ... read more ...