Tag Archives: parking

Mon 15th December 2008
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Google Partners Question Company’s Domain Parking Decision - Google’s Adsense for Domains partners question Google’s moves. In business lingo it’s called a channel conflict. Imagine times were still good in auto sales and you wanted to start a Cadillac dealership. You paid Cadillac a hefty franchise fee, spent several million dollars building a showroom, and then bought a couple hundred cars as inventory. Then one day Cadillac contacted you and said, “Thanks for all of your help. We’ve decided we’ll begin selling ... read more ...
Fri 12th December 2008
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How “Google Direct” May Hurt You in a Long Run - Google Adsense for Domains’ mass-market approach will strain domain name industry. Almost all of us were surprised today when Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) said it was opening up its Adsense for Domains program. It used to offer domain advertising relationships only to people with massive traffic, then it shut down the application process completely, and now it’s offering it up to anyone with a domain. From talking to a couple sources, it sounds like Google partners ... read more ...
 
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Microsoft Could Use Domain Channel to Get Leg Up in Search - Is Microsoft looking to buy into the domain market? It could be a winning strategy. You may have read a few rumors lately that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) may be getting into the domain name business. The last time I talked to a Microsoft representative on the record, he said the company was very interested in the domain channel but had no immediately plans to provide an ad feed to parked domains. Would Microsoft be so bold as to buy up hundreds of thousands of generic ... read more ...
Thu 11th December 2008
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Google Offers Domain Parking Direct to Publishers [UPDATED] - Google lets customers bypass DomainSponsor, Sedo, and other domain parking companies. [See update at bottom with latest information.] In a surprising move, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is now offering Adsense publishers the opportunity to park their domains directly with Google, rather than using a second-tier provider such as DomainSponsor or Sedo. Domain Name News caught on to this official Google post earlier today. I’m personally shocked at this move, given the retreat ... read more ...
Mon 8th December 2008
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TrafficZ Lightens Up - TrafficZ changes background color, starts integration with DomainTools and LeaseThis. One suggestion I’ve made to TrafficZ is to change its background color in the administrative console from black to a lighter color. I know a lot of other people have made that suggestion, too. TrafficZ has listened to its customers and changed the background color: TrafficZ is lightening the mood. Next time you visit www.TrafficZ.com, you can expect to see a brand new background ... 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 ...
Mon 17th November 2008
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Parked.com Adds New Countries to Yahoo Feed - Support should help boost earnings in foreign markets. One of the difficulties of providing a parking service based on Yahoo’s advertising feed is that it doesn’t cover as many countries as Google’s feed. But the list of countries supported is expanding. Recently, domain parking company Parked.com added several new supported regions on its main Yahoo ad feed: -India -South East Asia Market: Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, and Indonesia -Latin ... read more ...
Fri 14th November 2008
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Exclusive: Preview of New EVO Landing System - EVO Landing releasing new system that allows domain owner to fully customize web sites. EVO Landing is releasing a new version of its domain development system. Yesterday I got a preview of the system with EVO Landing co-founder Mark Michael, and I was very impressed. If you aren’t familiar with EVO Landing, it is a service to auto-generate content based web sites on your domain names. But the new release goes far beyond that, turning EVO into a fully customizable ... read more ...
Tue 11th November 2008
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Parked.com Finalizing Stats Faster - Domain parking company finalizing earnings stats much faster than before. I logged into my Parked.com account at about 9:30 CST this morning and was shocked to see there was no asterisk next to my stats for yesterday. Parked customers know that an asterisk means the stats are not final as the company awaits stats from advertising feed providers. In other words, as of no later than 9:30 this morning Parked had already finalized stats for yesterday. Over at NamePros, ... read more ...
Wed 5th November 2008
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NameDrive Offers 20% Domain Parking Bonus in November - Domain parking company offers bonuses in November. Domain name parking company NameDrive has announced bonus payouts for November parking revenue. Various bonuses apply to both existing and new customers: – Clients earning more than $20 with NameDrive in November gets an extra 10% parking payout as a bonus. The minimum bonus will be $10. – Existing clients who increases their NameDrive revenue in November compared to October will get a 20% bonus on the earnings ... read more ...
Fri 24th October 2008
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Life Without Yahoo - A Google-only world won’t be pretty. The writing is on the wall. Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) has been floundering for years, and its market share keeps slipping to Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). The two companies’ advertising agreement, whereby Yahoo will show ads on behalf of Google, will slowly erode Yahoo’s advertiser base. If the deal is approved by regulators, Yahoo will eventually cease to be a relevant factor in the pay-per-click marketing world. That doesn’t leave ... 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 ...
Tue 14th October 2008
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New WhyPark Platform Looks Promising - Parking alternative set to launch completely overhauled system. Domain name parking alternative WhyPark is getting ready to release a complete overhaul of its platform. Based on a sneak peek I got from WhyPark founder Craig Rowe, the new WhyPark may be just what domainers need to counter falling parking revenues. The basics are still the same: pay a one time fee, point domains to WhyPark’s servers, and then “auto create” web sites based on keywords to attract ... read more ...
Fri 10th October 2008
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GoDaddy Parking Page Customization: $99 - New service seems wildly overpriced. Am I missing something? I just read GoDaddy’s October sales letter (not really a newsletter as they call it), and read the fine print on the 20% off $75 coupon it offered. One of the exclusions is for “CashParking Custom Header“. Curious, I visited the GoDaddy web site to learn more. Essentially, GoDaddy will create a custom header for your parked domain. Price? $99. Am I missing something here? First, GoDaddy is the ... read more ...
Thu 2nd October 2008
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Hitfarm to Release Domain Parking Index - Index will provide greater transparency. Domain parking company Hitfarm will soon release the Reinvent Index, an index to track the parking performance of domains. The Reinvent Index will track the results of 200 categorized domains owned by the company’s parent Reinvent Technology. This will help domainers understand the ups and downs of the parking industry and get insight to how particular categories of domain names. Think of it like a the SP 500 stock index ... 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 2nd September 2008
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Will Google Chrome Hurt a Domain Industry? - The address bar and search box have become one. It’s no secret that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) would prefer internet users to visit Google rather than use direct navigation. The company’s Google Chrome web browser is making that possible by blurring the lines between web addresses and search boxes. Most web browsers now have a standard address bar as well as a search box (usually providing results from MSN or Google). Type an address in the address box or a search ... read more ...
Fri 29th August 2008
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Be Wary of Used.com and Penny.com Auctions during Sedo - “Meet the seller” shows these auctions may be bogus. I was excited to see that Used.com and Penny.com were on auction at Sedo today. These are both six figure domains. But my excitement was tempered after looking at the “meet the seller” data on the auctions. “Meet the seller” is a new feature Sedo introduced this week. It allows you to see details about the seller of a domain, including their country, when they joined Sedo, and a rating of their activity. ... 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 ...
Mon 18th August 2008
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Affspy Helps Monetize Domains with Affiliate Programs - Affiliate search tool opens to public beta. Affspy, a search engine to find the highest paying affiliate offers, has moved to an open beta this week. It has been in private beta since February. Affspy is a good tool for domainers looking for alternatives to domain parking. Sometimes it makes sense to forward your domains directly to an affiliate offer that may pay $20 or $30 per action rather than a few cents per click. But finding the right offers can be hard. ... 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 ...
Fri 8th August 2008
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Is Your Domain Parking Service Vulnerable to DNS Cache Poisoning? - Probably not, but here’s a way to check. You may have heard about recently discovered vulnerabilities in the DNS system that take advantage of recursive DNS to allow DNS cache poisoning. Spare the technical details: basically, if the nameserver your domain is hosted on is vulnerable, cybercriminals could redirect traffic meant for your site to a different web page. Many domainers don’t own web sites, but they certainly have their domains parked on other people’s ... read more ...
Mon 4th August 2008
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DBS: Domain Parking Continues Downward Spiral - Dark Blue Sea reports another drop in domain parking revenue. Australian domain name company Dark Blue Sea, which runs Fabulous, reported another drop in domain parking revenue in its latest quarterly update. Just two months ago Domain Name Wire wrote about how the company’s parking revenue from its 600,000 domains was down 18% in just one quarter. The news isn’t getting better. In the quarter ending June 2008 the company earned $1,003,000 from its company owned ... read more ...