NameJet Launches, Collaboration Between eNom, Network Solutions - SnapNames competitor launches, backed by Network Solutions and eNom. We first learned about Network Solutions’ planned domain name aftermarket site thanks to a trademark filing picked up by Trademork. The site is now live, and the story is bigger than anyone thought. Network Solutions has teamed up with eNom to launch NameJet. NameJet is an expired domain marketplace based on eNom’s technology but populated with premium expiring domains from Network Solutions. ... read more ...

Sedo Offers Bonuses on Domain Name Parking - Promotion pays 50% bonus on earnings increases. Domain name aftermarket and parking company Sedo launched a campaign this week that offers gift certificates based on increased domain parking revenue. The program offers up to a $1,000 gift certificate based on clients’ November 2007 parking revenue compared to September 2007. Here’s the breakdown of bonuses when comparing your upcoming November results to your September results: -Increase revenue by at least $50 ... read more ...

Reviewing Name Media’s Parking Services - Goldkey, ActiveAudience, and SmartName offerings to be reviewed. Frequent readers of Domain Name Wire may wonder why I don’t often mention any of Name Media’s domain name parking services. It’s nothing personal; I’ve just never explored their services. So today kicks off a series of reviews of the company’s parking services. Name Media, parent company of BuyDomains and Afternic, offers four services: Goldkey, Active Audience, SmartName and SmartName Classic. ... read more ...

GoldKey Domain Name Parking Review - Domain Name Wire reviews Name Media’s GoldKey service. This is the first in a series of reviews about Name Media’s domain name parking services. Goldkey made a splash when it came onto the domain parking scene. Domain forums were abuzz when Goldkey’s domains started showing up in search engines thanks to a unique inter-linking system. Alas, the fun didn’t continue as search engines caught on. After the buzz subsided, many domainers still found Goldkey ... read more ...

Demand Media Raises Another $100M - Company has raised $320M to date. According to several blog and media reports today, domain name company Demand Media has raised an additional $100M in capital. That brings its total to a staggering $320M. Demand Media was founded by former MySpace executive Richard Rosenblatt. The company owns eNom, the second largest registrar (by names registered), as well as a large portfolio of good domain names. The company also markets the .TV domain name, which it is trying ... read more ...

TrafficClub Delays Payments Due to Click Fraud - Domain parking service’s payments delayed from upstream providers. Publisher payments for Moniker’s TrafficClub domain name parking service will be delayed due to questions about click fraud. According to a notice on the TrafficClub site, the service’s upstream providers are delaying payment: Payments: With the increase of click fraud, we are receiving payment delays from our upstream providers. This is an industry wide issue that all companies are experiencing ... read more ...

DomainSponsor Expands Domain Leasing Program - Parking company leases domain portfolios for 6-12 months, pays cash up front to owner. At last month’s Domain Roundtable Conference in Seattle, DomainSponsor’s Director of Business Development, Ron Sheridan, said that his company is aggressively pursuing domain leasing deals. This is not a well-known concept in the domain name parking world, so I followed up with Sheridan to learn more about how the DomainSponsor leasing program works. It’s important to note ... read more ...

So Long, Overture Scores - At long last, it appears access to Overture data may be gone. In January I wrote about how Yahoo’s updated search marketing platform would mean the end of “Overture Scores”. (See The Death of Overture). After nine months, it appears the nail if finally in the coffin. Overture Scores represent the amount of times a keyword or domain is searched in the Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) network. For example, a keyword may show a score of 1,336, meaning the term was searched ... read more ...

Parked.com Administrative Console Back Online - After a three day absense, clients gain full access to accounts. Client access to domain name parking company Parked is back online after a three day outage. On Friday afternoon, Parked experienced difficulties with its backend servers, according to a message on its web site: On Friday afternoon, we noticed a problem with one of primary backend servers that processes and stores all of our finalized stats. At that time we decided to bring the server down to try and ... read more ...

Auto-Generated Web Sites: The Future of Domain Parking? - Will parked pages be enhanced with auto-generated modules? Domain name parking companies continue to innovate with the goal of creating parked web sites that look more like real web sites. DomainEmbarking.com, one such service, is now in Beta 2.0 and appears to be on the right track. Before diving into Domain Embarking’s service, let’s review the history of web site auto generation. A few years ago savvy entrepreneurs figured out they could mass-develop web ... read more ...

Great Domains Glitches, New Domain Parking Features - Leonard Holmes of ParkQuick updates us on domain name parking and auctions. Sedo‘s recent focus has been on integrating Great Domains into their system and getting high-profile domain auctions off the ground. Domainers on the forums are grumbling that their bids were not accepted, and that auctions have been canceled after the high bidder won the domain. One disgruntled domainer in that situation complained “we get an email first from Great Domains saying the ... read more ...

Frank Schilling to Hold Domainer Town Hall Meeting during DOMAINfest - Schilling will lead session at January’s DOMAINfest conference in Hollywood, California. DOMAINfest announced that legendary domainer Frank Schilling will lead the first ever “Domainer Town Hall Meeting” at the DOMAINfest conference in Hollywood, California January 21-23, 2008. The DOMAINfest conference is presented by domain name parking company DomainSponsor. The conference will also include an auction in “an innovative new format”, according to conference ... read more ...

Domain Name Parking Report for Aug 2007 - Summer doldrums are ending; are your domains ready for Fall traffic? Ah, summer. The weather is warm, the beaches packed, the kids out of school, and families on vacation. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Not if you count on internet traffic for a living. August is historically a poor month for domain name parking. But school is back in session at the end of this month and traffic will increase again. Take this downtime to make sure your domains are optimize and ... read more ...

DomainSponsor Dumps Paychex, Brings Payments Back Inhouse - Domain name parking company hits payment glitches with outsourced provider. Just a few months after outsourcing its publishers’ payments through Paychex, domain parking company DomainSponsor has brought its payments back in house. DomainSponsor had some glitches with the transition to Paychex. Some publishers received their past two payments made out to their contact person rather than the company name. This was only a problem if the contact was an employee of ... read more ...

Uploading Graphics to Parked.com Pages - Here’s a how-to guide to customizing domain names. During this week’s Domain Roundtable conference, domain name parking company Parked.com announced that it now allows customers to upload their own graphics to parking pages. Studies show that having a relavant picture on the landing page can increase click-throughs by 14%-16%. I just finished testing this new upload functionality along with the company’s other customization tools. I’m currently earning ... read more ...

Domain Name Parking Companies Announce New Features - The future of domain name parking was on display this evening at Domain Roundtable in Seattle. Domain name parking companies continue to innovate. Representatives of major domain name parking programs provided updates on their services and new features this evening in Seattle. Ron Sheridan of DomainSponsor announced that the company will roll out a one-click lander by the end of the year. DomainSponsor is also active with domain portfolio leasing, in which it prepays ... read more ...

Domain Roundtable Kicks Off in Seattle - Third annual Domain Roundtable runs through Wednesday, August 15. The third annual Domain Roundtable event kicked off at the Sheraton hotel in downtown Seattle last night. More than 150 domainers and service providers joined together for drinks, dinner, and to listen to a keynote from Mike “Zappy” Zapolin of Internet Real Estate Group. After registering, attendees were handed an nTag, an electronic networking device. When meeting another attendee, the nTags ... read more ...

Parking Empire offers a CPA module for Domainers - Leonard Holmes of ParkQuick provides a domain name parking update. It had to happen. The developers of CPA Empire are now offering a CPA-based program just for domainers. Parking Empire is essentially a spin-off of CPA Empire. The company originally monetized email campaigns, and has been moving into more web-based services. There have been accusations of spamming, most recently from MySpace. I’m not overly impressed with the quality of the offers at either ... read more ...

Modern Domainer Magazine Ships First Issue - New domain name magazine ships first issue. Modern Domainer, a new domain name magazine, will arrive in domainers’ mailboxes soon. The cover story for the August issue of Modern Domainer is called “Untangling the Web of Domaining” and provides advice on avoiding newbie mistakes. Other topics featured on the cover of this issue include: 1. .Asia land rush details 2. Vulcan sues Google for $1M – this should be a fantastic article. I skimmed through the lawsuit ... read more ...

Domain Roundtable Hits Seattle Aug 12-15 - Hundreds of domain industry participants to attend Name Intelligence event; event focused on networking. Domain Roundtable, a domain name conference hosted by Name Intelligence, will hold its 2007 conference August 12-15 in Seattle, Washington. “The focus will be on networking,” says Jay Westerdal, Name Intelligence President CEO. Westerdal says there is a party planned every night of the event, including Wednesday evening after the auction. Additionally, ... read more ...