Familiar faces top results from survey. Sedo and Parked.com were selected as the best domain name parking companies in the 5th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey. Sedo took top honors with 23% of the vote, followed by Parked.com at 18%. Here are the ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Yahoo Gets Patent for Domain Parking Optimization
· Domain ParkingYahoo gets a whopper of a patent for domain name parking optimization. Yahoo, one of the largest providers of advertising to parked domain names, has filed a patent application been granted a patent for optimizing the keyword links on "two-click" ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Above.com Optimizes Domain Parking Revenue
· Domain ParkingAbove.com optimizes your domain parking revenue. A lot of people are complaining about falling domain parking revenues. To counteract the drop, they're turning to domain development. But there's a simpler solution: optimizing your current parking ... Continue Reading7 Comments
Yahoo! Change May Hurt Domain Parking Revenue
· Domain ParkingChange in pricing algorithm may lower parking payouts for domainers. Yahoo! (YHOO) just announced changes to its pay-per-click advertising program that will change the amount advertisers pay for clicks based on click quality. The company says it plans ... Continue Reading25 Comments
New Domain Parking Company Worth a Look
· Domain ParkingRevenueDriver is the newest domain parking company on the block. These days it seems like the number of domain name parking options is declining. So it's nice to see a new option on the table in RevenueDriver. Based in Italy, RevenueDriver brings ... Continue Reading12 Comments
The Perfect Parked Domain Name
· Domain ParkingDomain name brings value to advertisers -- and money in my pocket. A couple months ago I bought a generic expired domain name related to summer camps. It doesn't get much traffic. But on May 5th my preliminary traffic report at my parking company ... Continue Reading8 Comments
Patent Filed for Domain Name Securitization
· Domain SalesPatent would allow for securitization and trading of domain name portfolios. Gregory Manriquez and Stevan Lieberman of NameDrive have filed a patent for domain name securitization. The patent was filed in November 2008 and published yesterday. The ... Continue Reading17 Comments
Let’s Increase the Size of “For Sale” Signs
· Domain SalesParked pages need to evolve into domain sales machines. It's common wisdom that putting a notice on your parked domain name that it's for sale likely decreases your pay-per-click click through rate. That's part of the reason any "for sale" notices on ... Continue Reading9 Comments
Park Domains? Enter the Parking Judge Contest
· Domain ParkingIf you've tried three or more domain parking services, enter the Parking Judge contest. It's been over a month since I launched Parking Judge, a web site that lets you review domain name parking services. I'm a bit surprised that fewer people have ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Survey: Parking Revenue Down, But Not Out
· Domain ParkingMany domain owners see a drop in income, but few take big plunge. With all the horror stories out there of domain parking revenue down 50%, self-reported results from the 4th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey show parking revenue isn't that bad. To be ... Continue Reading8 Comments