Comments on: Domain Parking’s Future: No More Long Tail

By: mariana

mariana — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:09:20 +0000

It is incredible how badly domainers are seen, everybody wants to throw them out of the market! It is wrong to claim that domainers are domain speculators, most of them are online entrepreneurs or simply investors.

And even if all domainers were speculators, is it really that unethical? As a society, we’ve allowed for decades for speculators to play with homes driving prices out of the reach of low and middle classes, a whole generation of homeless / seriously in debt young people. THAT IS UNETHICAL!!

One could claim, “well, when I want to register a domain they are all taken, and one day having a website will be as important as having a home.” These people obviously don’t realize that most quality domainers wouldn’t ever register a domain like the ones they would. They focus on “boring” generic terms instead. These ethical domainers are not anyones enemy, they are just another player in the free market economy trying to make their living.

By: furkat

furkat — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:36:30 +0000

Have you check your Adsense account? Domain Parking is available for any everyone. No 80/20 rules etc. So Andrew was wrong in his predictions.

By: Stephen Douglas

Stephen Douglas — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:59:42 +0000

Whypark.com.

Whypark.com

Content-based, SEO websites for pennies bringing in the visitors. Build em out, cowboys. The day is coming when this is the norm.

By: Domain Name Wire » News » Rumor Watch: Google to Restrict Domain Parking - The Domain Industry's News Source

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:46:23 +0000

[...] jives with what I’ve been talking about for a while. Specifically, Google will decide the long tail isn’t worth the pain. I realize this algorithm won’t necessarily get rid of the long tail, but it certainly favors [...]

By: Claude Gelinas

Claude Gelinas — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:51:36 +0000

I believe things will pan out positively for domainers with low visitor count domains because if the majors retreat (which I think they won’t), smaller advertisers will want the strategic placement.

The contextual ad placement model from Google is amazingly precise and that should interest more domainers to become web publishers, sharing their knowledge with the world — the ads will follow and the high quality clicks too.

There can be a “happy ending” for everyone, in this story.

By: Domain Name Wire » News » Click Forensics, Publishers, Ad Networks Facing Traffic Quality Challenge - The Domain Industry's News Source

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:00:18 +0000

[...] traffic. I’ve speculated that Google and/or Yahoo may pull out of the domain channel, or at least eliminate long-tail domains and non-direct partners. If Google weren’t public it probably would have exited already. But [...]

By: Antoinette

Antoinette — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:46:10 +0000

“He mentioned that parking makes up 4%-6% of Google/Yahoo’s revenue.”

Well, more depressing news.