Google will cut you off at the end of the year.
The “deadline” to change your domains parked on Google parking services from URL forwarding to DNS has passed, but apparently a lot of people haven’t made the switch yet.
Sedo sent an email out to customers this week encouraging them to comply with the changes. Apparently the final, drop dead deadline is January 1.
According to the email, Google tested not monetizing URL forwarded domains for three day in the middle of November. My guess is this brought to attention a lot of non-compliant domain traffic.
DNS parking has always been the encouraged method of domain parking. Some people who rotated their domain traffic between sites used URL parking, although the biggest rotation service (Above.com) recently shifted to a DNS forwarding system.
Patricia Kaehler says
Question to clarify…
I am NOT a Techie person and some things
are beyond my comprehension…
If I have always done the domains
I have on Sedo – by changing the NS
to say this:
NS1.SedoParking.com
is that the way I want them going into
the future ??
Are those ALREADY considered compliant
to the new changes ??
~Patricia Kaehler – Ohio USA – DomainBELL
Andrew Allemann says
@ Patricia – yes, that’s what they want you to do
rob says
Yes Google want to herd all parked domains to use dns servers that they intend to wipe from search. Google’s master plan is to wipe all kinds of advertising streams from the ordinary person on the internet. Nobody is safe with google anymore.
Nic says
Interesting….
Does a “DNS-parked domain” (Sedo terminology in the email) include one where the “dns zone” for the domain is hosted by a third party (not sedo) and pointed to Sedo via an A-record, I wonder?
For example if Sedo hosts the “dns zone” it must still use an “a-record” to point to the “parked page” host, so I fail to see how the above would be a problem.
Does Google only pay domains that use certain name servers, I wonder?
What does “DNS parking” actually mean, according to Google?
No parking company actually says we only pay if you use our name servers, they just come up with terms like “DNS parking” that mean not so much.
Namedrive says no “domain forwarding”, which is similarly vague from a technical standpoint when you have complicated setups. (Two emails to support – no response.)
Craig, NameDrive says
We sent out an email to all of our clients using URL forwarding to advise them of the changes, we did this as soon as we heard of the changes. We also contacted as many of our clients personally as is possible.
These changes were made due to our advertising partner clamping down on forwarding of domains which is generally against their TOS, due to this being a tool used by some users attempting to defraud the system.
The DNS and C name forwarding options which are now the only ones that we offer are due to us being compliant with the changes.
We do strive to answer all of our emails as fast as is possible and attempted to locate those sent regarding this to no avail.
If anyone has any follow up questions please let us know at [email protected]