Delay affects all Yahoo partners.
For the second time in as many months, a domain parking statistics delay from Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) is making domainers wonder “just how much have I earned this week?”
Apparently Yahoo hasn’t been able to provide final stats to domain parking companies since about March 25. The company provided some stats but then called them back, saying they weren’t accurate.
Although it may be a minor annoyance for some, the problem needs to be resolved within the next few days for clients to receive payments on time. For example, Parked.com usually sends payments on the 7th for earnings from the second half of the prior month.
NameMedia sent an e-mail to customers of its domain parking services, including Goldkey and ActiveAudience, yesterday to update them on the stats delay.
Over the past couple years, I have noticed when Parked had a delay in posting the final revenue, it was much less than the normal average.
So, when I see a delay in posting revenue, I know I am going to make less. Which, is an insult to injury.
However, I don’t see that trend at Trafficz.
I really wish there was a major player besides Google and Yahoo.
Will it ever get to the point where Yahoo will say “where did everybody go?”
Another sign that Yahoo is in disarray.
“I really wish there was a major player besides Google and Yahoo.”
There is. It’s called direct advertisers.
“Will it ever get to the point where Yahoo will say “where did everybody go?””
It’s there now. How many serious businesses advertise on Yahoo? Why bother? Overall a second class experience and it’s not like it’s difficult to go over to Google.
Yahoo is like Palm , Netscape, GM etc. They all had a great lead in their market and then they blew it.
You don’t come back from second place. Just a matter of time until Yahoo is just another search engine/portal like Lycos, Ask or Live. Who cares about those companies?
Sad. I have been a Yahoo fan since 1997.
Domestic stats for 04/25, 04/26, and 04/31 are now available for SmartName, ActiveAudience, and GoldKey.
We are currently processing the domestic stats for 04/27 – 04/30 now.
International stats are still unavailable from the feed provider, and we will process them as soon as they are received.
Follow us on Twitter for up to the minute status:
SmartName – http://twitter.com/smartname
ActiveAudience – http://twitter.com/activeaudience
GoldKey – http://twitter.com/goldkey_com
“So, when I see a delay in posting revenue, I know I am going to make less.”
True to form, Parked finalized the numbers for 3-30 and 3-31. My numbers are below average for those days.
The days before and after are still in estimate mode so I don’t know what is going to happen with those.
Domainer, how much money are we talking about here? A difference of $5?