NameDrive and Parking Crew announced last week that the NameDrive parking platform will now be "powered by Parking Crew." The NameDrive announcement stated: At the occasion of its tenth anniversary, NameDrive, one of the oldestbrands in domain parking and ParkingCrew, one of the most innovativenewcomers join their forces for the benefit of you, our customers.... Continue Reading →
2015 Domain Parking Changes
TrafficZ closed its doors at the beginning of 2015. It was the first domain parking company that I used. I remember Kevin Vo contacting me to tell me about the service, and I remember being skeptical that I would make any money off ads. I was wrong. TrafficZ brought me a good income for a... Continue Reading →
Rook Media buys Domain Sponsor
On April 21st Oversee.net announced that Rook Media bought its Domain Sponsor monetization business. Domain Sponsor was founded in 2002 as one of the original domain parking companies. Rook Media claims to be Europe’s largest domain monetization platform.Last month's DomainFest was interestingly produced by Domain Sponsor, in contrast with past DomainFests which were produced by... Continue Reading →
Marchex Kills its SiteBox Domain Parking
I think I was vaguely aware that Marchex had a domain parking service. Apparently it was started in 2006 but has been languishing lately. As of May 1 the doors will close. If you have domains parked there you should move them ASAP. Marchex made news back in 2004 when it went public as one of... Continue Reading →
Google Officially Drops Parked Domains from their Index
Now we know why Google demands that domain parking companies use nameservers to direct traffic to their services. It makes it very easy for Google to detect and de-list parked domains. It always seemed like Google's intent to not index parked domains. You've probably had it happen to you (although not recently). You do a... Continue Reading →
Above features new Parking Companies
Above.com is a good way to try your domain names at different parking companies. Andrew at DNW.com noticed recently that they have integrated three new parking companies into their platform: Voodoo, ParkingCrew, and TheParkingPlace. I probably won't be immediately trying these services out - but it's interesting that new domain parking services are trying to make a go... Continue Reading →
Yahoo caps .biz, .co, .info, .tv, and .us.
Yahoo recently imposed a revenue cap on doman parking income on certain TLDs. TrafficZ reported that the affected TLDs "include .biz, .co, .info, .tv, and .us." leaving open the possibility that other TLDs might also be capped. According to TrafficZ on 8/16: The new, conservative revenue cap was rolled out early this morning and will be imposed on... Continue Reading →
Jeff Kupietzky Leaves Oversee.net
Oversee.net - parent company of DomainSponsor - has announced that CEO Jeff Kupietzky is leaving the company at the end of August for personal reasons. A statement released by Mason Cole this afternoon reported that Kupietzky will be moving to Israel with his family.According to the statement "The day-to-day operations and strategic vision for Oversee... Continue Reading →
Can You Make More Money with Frank Schilling?
Frank Schilling’s new InternetTraffic.com service claims to help you make more money than other parking companies. He is apparently using some of the same techniques he uses on his own domains, and reports I've read suggest that the domains can contain both Google feeds and Yahoo/Bing feeds. At first glance this seems to violate the... Continue Reading →
Google’s Farmer/Panda Update Goes Global, Hurts Keyword Domains
Earlier this week Google Google extended the algorithm change that penalized content farms to the rest of the world. They also incorporated user feedback - dropping the rank of sites that users block in their search results. Domainers have been reporting that his change has significantly hurt their keyword traffic - especially the traffic of... Continue Reading →
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