ParkingCrew customers could get more revenue with Bounce.io integration.
Domain name owners have been monetizing web traffic to domain names for a long time. But few monetize e-mails sent to their parked domain names.
ParkingCrew announced today that it has integrated email monetization in its platform. Domain name owners can now make money whenever an email is sent to their domain names, whether it’s spam or a legitimate sender.
Data about spam emails are compiled and sold to security firms. Legitimate email is responded to with an email that includes a prominent ad next to the bounce notice.
ParkingCrew is working with Bounce.io for the new service. In addition to working with corporations to create more helpful bounce notifications, Bounce.io works with both domainers and mailbox/hosting providers to monetize emails.
Monetizing email can be somewhat difficult to set up compared to standard parking; a parking company integration makes it as easy as regular domain name parking (just use the parking company’s nameservers).
Expired domains that were previously active websites and ones related to email services are likely to perform best with this type of system.
cybertonic says
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Joseph Peterson says
Some ideas — like Bounce.io — are so clever they make a person laugh out loud just as if they were the punchline to the joke of the status quo.
Does anybody have any data on the volume of emails directed to parked domains? Most domain owners have some sense of type-in traffic volume, but I have no reference point for misdirected emails.
Quantity and other details would be good to know.
Zarillo says
Interesting side note: This is not legal (its spam) in Germany and most probably in the whole EU too, and PC is a German based company. I wonder how they will deal with complaints. But hey, they will have done their homework i assume.
Andrew Allemann says
Replying to an email is considered spam in Germany?
zarillo says
Yes.http://www.lto.de/recht/nachrichten/n/ag-stuttgart-urteil-10c22514-spam-werbung-autoreply/
They may receive a lot of costly c+d letters and i do believe that pc is liable.
adam says
“Legitimate email is responded to with an email that includes a prominent ad next to the bounce notice.”
Won’t it harm a domain name as potential source of unwanted messaging or a spam as someone could say?
I would be grateful for more (technical) information from those of you who are experienced in matters of spam filters/systems for example. Thanks.