The brand associated with the commercialization of pay-per-click search has found its way back to the internet. How's this for a bit of nostalgia? Remember GoTo.com and its iconic green and yellow logo? It's baaaack! If you weren't around the ... Continue Reading11 Comments
Domain parking clawback dings Demand Media earnings, plus first look at Rightside numbers
· Domain ParkingCompany hit with parking clawback from a previous quarter. Ask any domain parking company about their top frustrations, and clawbacks will be high on the list. Basically, their upstream ad partner will clawback previously paid revenue based on traffic ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Parking your domain name can hurt – or help – in a UDRP
· Domain ParkingWhich ads show up on a parked page can make the difference in a UDRP. Yesterday WIPO posted its decision in a UDRP for the DriveUPS.com domain name, finding in favor of the shipping company UPS and ordering the domain name transferred. This decision ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Sedo to go private as United Internet buys out co-founders
· Domain ParkingSedo will no longer be a separate, publicly traded company. United Internet AG has raised its stake in Sedo Holding to 96.05% after buying out the co-founders' shares at a price of 2.60 euros per share. United Internet plans to integrate Sedo Holding's ... Continue Reading12 Comments
Domain parking company named to bad hosts list, but…
· Domain ParkingSedo listed as top for phishing sites, which doesn't make a lot of sense. HostExploit has released its latest World Hosts Report (which has been renamed from its previous moniker "Bad Hosts"). Domain name parking company Sedo shows up ranked #2 for ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
How to send your domains to “for sale only” landers at DNS
· Domain ParkingMore interested in selling your domains than earning PPC income? Here's how to send domain names to sales only landers at DNS. A lot of domainers have asked domain parking companies and marketplaces to offer landing pages dedicated solely to selling ... Continue Reading9 Comments
Jim Grace joins Team Internet
· Domain ParkingDomain monetization company hires Jim Grace as Director of Business Development. Team Internet AG, the company behind domain parking service ParkingCrew and zero click solution DNTX, has hired Jim Grace as Director of Business Development. Grace was ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Domain parking: less is more?
· Domain ParkingSmartName drops most templates to focus on the best performing ones. It used to be that domain name parking companies bragged about how many templates they had. The templates had different ad locations, fonts, and most importantly, graphics related to ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Sedo revenue down 17% but rebound in number of domains for sale and parked
· Domain ParkingSedo's revenue continues downward trend but company reports a rebound in domains for sale and parked since the end of 2012. Sedo Holding's domain marketing segment, which most in the domain name industry know as simply Sedo, posted a sharp revenue drop ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Whistles.co.uk owner files UDRP on Whistles.com
· Domain ParkingParked page's contents probably upset clothing company. Whistles Limited, a UK womens' clothing brand, has filed a UDRP against Whistles.com. The company's website is Whistles.co.uk. A B.S. filing against a generic domain name? Maybe. But this is ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment