Delay in revenue stats hits major domain name parking companies.
A domain name parking stats delay from Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) has hit a number of domain name parking companies, preventing them from providing final parking stats to customers for the past few days. Yahoo is one of the biggest domain name advertising feed providers.
The outage appears to have started late last week when parking companies started to notify customers of stats delays (or simply not update stats). The stats delays are affecting all major Yahoo partners, including Parked.com, TrafficZ, HotKeys, and NameMedia (SmartName, Active Audience, and Goldkey).
The problem is being resolved, and it appears that stats are starting to be processed through Saturday, February 14. Stats at Parked.com and HotKeys are updated to February 13 as of the time of posting.
Google Adsense customers faced some delays over the weekend, as stats were delayed starting 4 a.m. PST on Sunday. Those issues do not appear to have affected Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) domain name parking channel.
Domain name parkers have become accustomed to stats being finalized within a day, but it was only recently that major parking companies such as Parked.com were able to provide this data quickly. Delays from smaller parking ad feed providers are common, but it is rare for such a prolonged delay from a major provider.
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Ricardo says
I have found – longer a ppc company takes to post revenue when delayed, more the estimated revenue number drops.
Ricardo says
True to form, my revenue dropped below average after Parked delayed posting revenue numbers for a couple days.
Happens everytime.
Ricardo says
Follow up.
My Trafficz went up slightly.
Which, tells me that TZ rewards domain owners for the inconvenience.
Giving us the benefit of the doubt with ppc revenue.
Whereas, Parked penalizes domain owners when there is a feed breakdown.
They both have been following this pattern for years.
Andrew Allemann says
@ Ricardo – I suspect that’s just coincidence. It was Yahoo’s inconvenience, not Parked’s. The one time Parked had a problem — a think it was a two day delay in payment — they sent everyone a 5% bonus.