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TrafficClub Jun results - My TrafficClub domain parking revenue performance improved in June but is still below April. My overall RPM (revenue per 1000 views) in June was $54.18, up from $51.20 in May but still below April’s $57.90. When you consider the relative traffic to individual domains within a portfolio, the difference between $51 and $58 is relatively small. Granted, if you receive 100,000 views per month this comes out to $700. But my portfolio gets nowhere near that much traffic. I ... read more ...

Yahoo’s Overture to throw despotic bid-for-placement - Yahoo Search Marketing, also known as Overture, is scrapping the strict bid-for-placement system it invented. When Yahoo rolls out its updated search advertising system later this year, the highest bidder will no longer be guaranteed to show up at the top. Yahoo is switching to a system similar to Google and MSN, that takes into consideration both the bid amount and click-through rate of the ads. This should help with relevance while boosting Yahoo’s revenue. Yahoo ... read more ...

Fabulous to list domains on TDNAM - Agreement is first major listing partnership for GoDaddy’s domain aftermarket. GoDaddy announced a deal today with domain owner and marketer Fabulous to list Fabulous domains on its domain aftermarket, TDNAM. To my knowledge this is the first major listing agreement for TDNAM. Other aftermarkets have similar listing deals, such as Afternic listing thousands of BuyDomains listings. I just reviewed the TDNAM site and don’t see any obvious integration of Fabulous ... read more ...

Afternic removing a makeover - Afternic is getting ready to launch its redesigned site. When I sat down with Roger Collins of Afternic at Domain Roundtable in April, he told me Afternic was undergoing a complete redesign. Afternic has released a preview of the new design here. It looks like a winner to me. (My #1 concern with Afternic has been loading speed, and this appears to be getting better. Afternic just released a major database upgrade.) The new GUI will be a welcome change as well. ... read more ...

Sedo introduces domain financing, IDN parking - Sedo has partnered with DomainCapital for financing of domains over $10,000 and has announced support for international domain names. Buying domain names can be a good investment, but what if you don’t have the cash in hand to take advantage of a good deal? DomainCapital provides financing for domain names and has created a partnership with Sedo. According to a press release, Sedo has already brokered 211 transactions for domains valued at least $10,000 this year. ... read more ...

Commission Junction changes couple plans - Affiliate heavyweight Commission Junction caved to publisher complaints and changed its phase out plan for affiliate links. If you’re like many domain name owners, you depend on affiliate programs in addition to pay per click revenue. One of the biggest affiliate networks, Commission Junction, recently announced plans to introduce javascript links to replace standard HTML links. On the surface this is a smart move. It allows Commission Junction’s advertisers ... read more ...

ActiveAudience – Goldkey on Steroids? - May saw the emergence of even more new domain parking services. In the latest issue of Domain Parking News we feature Active Audience, the new service from the creators of Gold Key and the people behind BuyDomains. Is the field getting too crowded? Is Active Audience worth joining? Active Audience is a new domain parking service from the creators of Gold Key. This new service appears to target owners of larger portfolios and domain professionals with higher-traffic ... read more ...

TrafficClub stays strong - My TrafficClub results for May were solid despite a glitch in Skeno’s reporting. The paid domain parking business is growing by leaps and bounds and new companies are launching solutions every day. Leonard Holmes of ParkQuick offers great analysis of the domain parking news. Check out his latest post here at DomainNameWire. If you’re a frequent reader of this blog then you know I’m a big fan of Moniker’s TrafficClub system. It helps me optimize my domains ... read more ...

SedoPro launches to public - Sedo, one of the largest domain exchanges and domain parking companies, has launched its SedoPro parking service to the public. Sedo has been testing the system for a while on an invitation-only basis. Sedo’s regular parking pages can’t compare to SedoPro. Among the cool features of SedoPro: -View high and low performing domains -See geographic origin of traffic -See where traffic is coming from (referrers) -Add “Page Elements” including custom links, search ... read more ...

Stats from parked domains - SiteParker has released aggregate stats about parked domains that reveal some interesting user behaviors. Domain parking company SiteParker has released data from over 1,000,000 visits to 15,000 domains in the first quarter of the year. I haven’t seen domain parking companies releasing stats like this before, so kudos to SiteParker. The stats reveal that there are 1.3 page views per unique visitor to parked domains. If we assume that people only click on to one ... read more ...

NameDrive offers World Cup Contest - Domain parking company NameDrive is offering up to triple your parking earnings during the World Cup of football (that’s soccer to most of us). You can tell that a company isn’t from the United States when it centers a big promotion around the World Cup of Football, a.k.a. soccer. NameDrive’s contest allows its customers to earn up to 3x their earnings in June by joining a World Cup bracket. The best performer in the bracket wins 3x their parking revenue for ... read more ...

Learning some-more about Parked.com domain parking - Parked.com is grabbing attention as a new alternative in the crowded field of domain parking. I recently asked Donny Simonton, CIO of Parked.com, a few questions about what makes the service different from the competition. (The parking service was created by directNIC.) 1. It seems like a new parking service opens its doors every week. How will Parked.com stand out from the crowd? Unlike some of the new companies that are coming out we have been in the parking ... read more ...

Give parking companies a possibility to optimize - Domainers should test domains with parking companies for at least a month to achieve valuable results. When I first started parking a couple dozen names at Parked.com a couple weeks ago I was dissapointed with the RPM. But my results have improved dramatically over the past few days as the parking service has had a chance to optimize my domains based on user traffic. For example, take a look at BoyGeorgeDJ.com. At first it showed links related to music in general ... read more ...

Sacrificing parking income for destiny profits - Communicate.com’s latest earnings report shows that the company is banking on the long term value of developing its domains. Communication.com (OTCBB: CMNN.ob) announced its latest quarterly earnings. The company went into the red for Q1, compared with a profit of $133k in the same quarter a year earlier. But investors need not panic. Communication.com President David Jeffs said: We made some planned changes in Q1 that have adversely affected our near-term results, ... read more ...

Parked.com domain name parking - Newcomer Parked.com has great landing pages and pays twice each month. It seems like every week a new domain parking company enters the market. (And we’re just a week or two away from Sedo launching its SedoPro service, which many domainers are anxiously awaiting.) But Parked.com might give other parking services a run for their money. Some of Parked.com’s features will at least push the competitive edge so that other parking companies have to improve their ... read more ...

Yahoo ads to get an upgrade - Yahoo Search Marketing (also known as Overture to the domain community) is getting an upgrade. The upgrade is long overdue to compete with Google. Overture invented the pay-per-click search market but in this case being second to market was a benefit for Google. Google was able to learn from Overture’s (then GoTo.com) mistakes to create a more flexible system. Yahoo and Google feed most paid parking programs. Yahoo feeds programs like GoldKey and newcomer Parked.com. ... read more ...