The upcoming T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas show (January 21-23 at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino) is the first produced by Rick Latona. He has ditched Rick Schwartz's "invitation only" policy and opened the show up to all (finally). The new Rick has followed the lead of "fun" conferences like Domainer Mardi Gras and skipped ealry... Continue Reading →
2009 in Review
2009 was certainly a year of ups and downs. Most of us who have made money from domain parking will agree that it was mostly a year of downs. The year started off on high note with DOMAINfest Global, which included a party at the Playboy mansion. Parking income had already started to slide, but... Continue Reading →
Sedo Gets a Facelift
The domain giant Sedo has given their site a much-needed facelift. The site looks cleaner throughout, but some of the content is now buried a little deeper. You may also find that some of your settings have changed. If your parking stats aren't showing up, just click in the boxes for the columns you want... Continue Reading →
Monetizing Domains through Sales – Best Practices
Before domain parking most domain owners monetized their domain portfolio through domain sales. Paying the registration fees for a large portfolio can be a challenge. Before you allow your domains to expire, consider these best practices for domain sales. Keep your contact information up-to-date, and include a real email address where people can contact you. ... Continue Reading →
DomainSponsor Invades Europe
DomainSponsor announced Monday that it is opening an office in Europe in early 2010. They have appointed Joerg Schnermann as General Manager for DomainSponsor Europe. They also announced the appointment of Jessica Besseling and Joe Higgins to the European team.Schnermann was formerly COO of KeywordDomains.com. Before that he worked in the "real world" as a... Continue Reading →
Monetizing a Domain Portfolio – Multiple Streams of Income
When monetizing your domain portfolio it is important to adopt the concept of multiple streams of income. Many domain owners got lazy in the last few years as domain parking provided good income for domains that received traffic. Google and Yahoo were the source of most of this income, and both of these companies have... Continue Reading →
DevHub gets more Money
We've followed DevHub since it was EvoLanding. The parent company announced this month that it has secured a round of growth capital totaling $1.5 million. DevHub reports that they now have over 30,000 publishers whose websites attract over 2 million unique visitors per month. The site creation tools and revenue-generating modules to make it easy... Continue Reading →
How to Monetize Now?
Domain parking income is down 40-60% for most domain owners. While parking companies are tweaking their algorithms to squeeze every drop out of parking, there is also a shift toward domain sales as a way to monetize domain names. If you've been in the industry long enough, you've seen this before. This is how many... Continue Reading →
Sedo Introduces New Technologies
The recent Sedo Pro Partner Forum in Key West was an opportunity to learn more about the domain powerhouse that is gobbling-up other parking companies. Sedo is actually part of a giant German Internet conglomerate called United Internet. Check out this page to see how Sedo is related to all of these other parts of... Continue Reading →
New Parked / WhyPark Forum
Check out the new forum for Parked and Whypark at Forum.Parked.com. This seems to be Donny's answer to criticism he received not too long ago on NamePros. It's already a very active forum for domainers and there are wide-ranging discussions on issues other than parking. It's also another place to buy and sell domains.
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