Comments on: 128M Domain Names Registered, VeriSign Release Domain Parking Report http://domainnamewire.com/2007/06/07/128m-domain-names-registered-verisign-release-domain-parking-report/ News and Views for the Domain Name Industry Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:15:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Claude Gelinas http://domainnamewire.com/2007/06/07/128m-domain-names-registered-verisign-release-domain-parking-report/comment-page-1/#comment-79628 Claude Gelinas Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:07:26 +0000 http://domainnamewire.com/2007/06/07/128m-domain-names-registered-verisign-release-domain-parking-report/#comment-79628 I know a lot of big domain name owners and -all- of them want to develop -all- of their domain names into useful (or valuable) web destinations. PPC landing pages are always considered a temporary monetizing measure. Sometimes, good domains stay in "landing state" for a while but the final intent is always to develop them beyond the basic PPC lander model. VeriSign's view seems skewed compared to what I can observe, in the "real life". I know a lot of big domain name owners and -all- of them want to develop -all- of their domain names into useful (or valuable) web destinations.

PPC landing pages are always considered a temporary monetizing measure. Sometimes, good domains stay in “landing state” for a while but the final intent is always to develop them beyond the basic PPC lander model.

VeriSign’s view seems skewed compared to what I can observe, in the “real life”.

]]> By: » Domain Parking Details from the Verisign Q2 Domain Brief (DomainEditorial.com) http://domainnamewire.com/2007/06/07/128m-domain-names-registered-verisign-release-domain-parking-report/comment-page-1/#comment-78568 » Domain Parking Details from the Verisign Q2 Domain Brief (DomainEditorial.com) Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:29:31 +0000 http://domainnamewire.com/2007/06/07/128m-domain-names-registered-verisign-release-domain-parking-report/#comment-78568 [...] Since I didn’t have the time to summarize the Verisign Q2 DomainBrief, I’ll just quickly point to Andrew’s summary of the information over at DomainNameWire. He also discovered a second report entitled “VeriSign Domain Name and Pay Per Click Advertising Report” (pdf), which clearly underlines how much attention our industry is getting lately. VeriSign estimates that 12%-14% of new .com and .net registrations in the past 2 1/2 years were PPC-intent domains. [...]

[...] Since I didn’t have the time to summarize the Verisign Q2 DomainBrief, I’ll just quickly point to Andrew’s summary of the information over at DomainNameWire. He also discovered a second report entitled “VeriSign Domain Name and Pay Per Click Advertising Report” (pdf), which clearly underlines how much attention our industry is getting lately. VeriSign estimates that 12%-14% of new .com and .net registrations in the past 2 1/2 years were PPC-intent domains. [...]

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