End of an era: TrafficZ to shut its doors on Wednesday. Thought Convergence sold off its primary operating businesses this year: it sold Agreed to Escrow.com and Aftermarket.com to Igloo. That left domain name parking company TrafficZ. Today, the ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Researchers study the “Dark Side of Domain Parking”
· Domain ParkingA team of researchers says a number of domain name parking companies are up to no good. A group of researchers, mostly from Indiana University, recently presented a study about the "Dark Side of Domain Parking". The study (pdf) was presented at ... Continue Reading19 Comments
Warning: do you know where your parked domain traffic is going?
· Domain ParkingZero click traffic may lead to scam and installer sites. "Zero click" monetization for parked domains, in which domain traffic is forwarded to another site rather than landing on a page full of ads, is nothing new in the domain name industry. In ... Continue Reading13 Comments
Rightside signs new Google domain parking agreement
· Domain ParkingCompany says material terms are "substantially similar" to the prior agreement. Rightside, parent company of eNom and domain parking platform HotKeys, has signed a new domain name parking agreement with Google. In an SEC filing, the company stated ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Why your new TLDs won’t work well with domain parking (yet)
· Domain ParkingDomain parking ads don't consider the full meaning of a domain name that spans the dot. A couple weeks ago Donuts launched the .cash top level domain name. This got me thinking about domain parking. I've owned a few .com domain names with the term ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Yoweri Museveni domain name put to good use
· Domain ParkingThe ads on Museveni.com are rather ironic. Uganda's president Yoweri Museven signed into law a harsh anti-gay law earlier this year. Museveni might be disappointed to see what comes up when you type the domain name Museveni.com in a web ... Continue Reading1 Comment
OpenDNS kills its typosquatting operation
· Domain ParkingCompany to shut down NXD error redirect service. OpenDNS announced this week that it is shutting down a service that was, in effect, a giant typosquatting operation. Millions of people use OpenDNS as an alternative to their ISP's DNS. The useful ... Continue Reading3 Comments
ParkingCrew integrates Bounce.io email monetization
· Domain ParkingParkingCrew 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 ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Domain parking is down, but not dead
· Domain ParkingSurvey shows domain parking is still a key to the domain business, even if much smaller than before. Rook Media's acquisition of DomainSponsor proves that the domain name parking market is still alive and kicking. Just not like it was many years ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Rook Media acquires DomainSponsor
· Domain ParkingOversee.net has sold DomainSponsor and its domain name portfolio to Rook Media. One of the largest domain name parking companies has been acquired. Rook Media has acquired domain name parking company DomainSponsor from Oversee.net, the companies ... Continue Reading11 Comments
