One of the driving forces behind increased interest in domain names is pay-per-click advertising. Pay-per-click listings are the number one revenue source for domain parking services such as DomainSponsor. GoTo, which later became Overture and now ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
The $6.45 Click
· ServicesDomain name investors hope to earn a return on domains in a couple major ways. First, we hope to get domain parking revenue. But let's face it. We really just want to get this revenue while we wait for someone to offer top dollar for the ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
2006 Domain Name Survey
· Domain Registrars, Domain Sales, Expired Domains, Policy & Law, Services, UncategorizedDomain Name Wire is doing a study of the domain name market and where we're headed in 2006. Please take a few minutes to complete our survey. Survey results will be provided free of charge at the conclusion of the survey period. If you have a domain ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Boosting Google Adsense on Domain Names
· ServicesMany domain name owners go beyond simply parking their domains with companies like DomainSponsor. They create mini sites of content related to the domain name and add Google Adsense ads to the pages. For example, see my CankerSores.com site. As a ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Traffic Club November Results, Skenzo
· ServicesFrequent readers of Domain Name Wire know that I park most of my domains at TrafficClub. TrafficClub optimizes your domains across a number of different parking services. Most traffic to date has been delivered to either Domain Sponsor or Google Adsense ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Will new Google content bids affect domain parking revenue?
· ServicesJenSense (a great blog for contextual advertising information) just pointed out that Google is now offering separate bids for search and content ads in its Adwords program. This is similar to Yahoo/Overture, which lets you set different bid amounts for ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Domain Hacks
· ServicesA focus on so-called "domain hacks" grew when social bookmarking site del.icio.us starting gaining international attention. The actual domain for the site is http://icio.us, but del is a subdomain. It's a neat way to make a word out of an otherwise ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Domain name company Communicate.com announces earnings
· Services, UncategorizedDomain name investment company Communicate.com (OTC: CMNN.ob) announced earnings today. Communicate.com owns high profile domains like Importers.com and Perfume.com. Communicate.com's results point to the good health of the domain name industry: - ... Continue Reading3 Comments
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. adds Silicon Valley Show
· ServicesOnly in its second year, the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain name conference is adding a third show to its roster - Silicon Valley. T.R.A.F.F.I.C. already holds shows in Florida and Las Vegas. This show might turn into the roving Search Engine Strategies ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Domain Name Resources: URLTrends
· ServicesThere are hundreds of free tools for domain name owners to analyze domain names. URLtrends.com is a great tool that I've been using recently, and it has been integrated into Sedo's domain listings. URLtrends aggregates a number of statistics about ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
