Category: domain parking

Revenue Direct gets Swallowed by Sedo

The writing is now on the wall. RevenueDirect is closing down and all of their domains will be consolidated at Sedo.  This makes sense from a business point-of-view.  Why operate two competing platforms?  Here's an excerpt of the email I received today: As a valued RevenueDirect client, we´d like to welcome you into Sedo´s family... Continue Reading →

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NameDrive Opens NDX Domain Market

NameDrive has opened their new NDX domain market first announced in January.  NameDrive's service will charge a 7% fee, compared to the standard 10% charged by Afternic and Sedo. All fees are waived for the first month, as a way of encouraging people to sign-up. If you park your domains with NameDrive have can get... Continue Reading →

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WhyPark Drops the $100 Fee

WhyPark's domain development services once cost $100 for 100 domains. As I noted in a previous post the basic services will aggregate content from article directories on your sites. You add your own AdSense ad code or use one of their monetization options and you have a site full of content. For a fee you... Continue Reading →

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NameMedia Upgrades their Parking Platforms

NameMedia announced today that they have upgraded several aspects of their parking platforms, and that additional improvements are planned.  The improvements apply across the board to their SmartName, ActiveAudience, and GoldKey services.  When you first log-in to your account you will be greeted by a new dashboard that replaces the old control panel.  The interface... Continue Reading →

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Yahoo Stats Delayed

Several parking services are reporting delays in stats from Yahoo for the period of 2/15-2/17.  This problem has delayed the semi-monthly report calculation for Parked (which pays twice a month).  NameMedia's Yahoo-based SmartName, ActiveAudience, and GoldKey report similar stats delays.

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By the Numbers (February 2009)

Name Monetizer welcomes Howard Hoffman, who will be regularly reporting on the trends he is seeing in the nubers based on his extensive domain portfolio.As most domain owners know, there has been a long-term trend of declining Revenue Per Click (RPC) from Google- and Yahoo-fed parking providers (DomainSponsor, Sedo, Fabulous, SmartName, TrafficZ, etc).  RPC is... Continue Reading →

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Oversee.net Cuts More Staff

Oversee.net, the parent company of DomainSponsor, announced yesterday that it has laid off 38 employees – close to 20% of its workforce.  The company cited a difficult economic environment expected in 2009 for the layoffs.There was speculation that  was one of the hardest ht divisions, but the company did not break the numbers down.  They... Continue Reading →

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PPC Rates Tumble as Advertisers Pull Out

"It's the economy stupid."  That was originally a line from Bill Clinton's presidential campaign, but it accurately describes what we are seeing in PPC domain parking rates.  Depending on the industry, many companies seem to be curring back on Online advertising - and this means lower income from PPC from domain parking and AdSense. There... Continue Reading →

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