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| Just a thought........
This was listed as 100% revenue sharing. Nowhere did it say what he actually shared with his "customers".
His upstream advertisers having the power to have him get rid of 75% of the accounts tells me that they actually controlled the thing with funding. Which also says that the "sharing" was mainly favoring him.
Now, logically, any account making money would be good for him. So what he is really looking at is traffic. What he really has is a traffic problem. He has (had) 500,000 (estimate, no clue) sites parked on his server. Of those sites, 125K or 25% of them were getting enough clicks to warrent them staying there.
So what Matt did was basically pick an arbitrary figure to measure who stayed and went. If your "account" was not generating at least 25% ctr and profits, you probably got axed. Maybe not 25%, but at least he had to use a formula of #sites*clicks*profits to figure out who stayed and who went.
What that means, is that NONE of this had to do with quality of names. Let's say that you own america.com. Well if you park it at bodis, but you use the keywords "big ant farms of south eastern oklahoma", then people that type in america.com are going to find crap links. So they won't click on them.
what that really means is the Matt, (now known as mudd), really should have taken them time to do some research about who he cut and what names weren't working and why.
It also very SPECIFICALLY says that it really had NOTHING to do with his "upstream advertisers" and more to do with obviouly overloaded servers. What he is really doing is freeing up some cpu cycles and ram usage.
My opinion still stands.......................and this has ALL been my opinion, not facts.
Matt handled this VERY badly. His reputation is obviously taking a huge hit, and he is remarkably silent right now as compared to norm.
All that being said, what he was attempting was to get revenue for domains. There is simply only 1 way to do that. Park your own sites on your own accounts. If you have 100 sites or 10,000 sites and you don't have your own hosting account to take advantage of he traffic, then you aren't looking out for yourself.
A simple reseller/unlimeted site hosting account is $12 a month. Instead of buying 2 crap .coms every month, buy a hosting account and host your own names with some simple templates.
This completely eliminates the need for depending on services like this at all. And if you eliminate that need, you eliminate your dependance on services like this at all.
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