Especially with registrars like Enom, which are set up to be primarily wholesale operations.
The idea is that everyone wins this way: the registrar doesn't have to waste man hours explaining the same thing to too many people, and the registrants don't have to pay for that.
In most cases you can simply send an email to the address shown in the Admin Contact - however random it may look.
Usually the email is automatically forwarded to the owner of the domain, using the real email address that the whois service has on file.
It does works with GoDaddy's whois protection service.
In rare cases this method doesn't work, for instance with domains protected by ResellerClub - possibly because their whois protection is given away for free.
What do you guys think about this? If I come up with my own names to register and find that they're already registered as .com, but the .net is available and the keywords for it are somewhat strong or promising. Go for it? or forget it? I'm talking in scenarios where the intention is to park the name not develop it.
That's based on your stated intention to park instead of develop.
The same applies to all non-.com gTLDs by the way, including my favorite one - which you would never guess :-)
There are exceptions to most rules in domaining, but in this case you have to be really lucky to chance upon an available .net that makes you money just by parking it.
A strong keyword in .net is a prime candidate for traffic tasters. If it's still available, that probably means it's been tested for natural type-in traffic at least once and was found to be not worth keeping.
Domain names are not case sensetive at all, so Microsoft.com = microsoft.com = MiCrOsOfT.CoM etc...
However, servers running on *nix are case-sensetive when it comes to directories and files.
Thanks Mobi Cheap, that was basically what I thought too, but needed second opinions, and it's why I've hesitated to register a lot of good .net names.
I found a list of acronyms on a different thread that was helpful, but it was missing some of the common acronyms used when you view your parking stats at your parking company.
I particularly am interested in knowing not only the meaning or RPM, CTR and RPC, not just the literal meaning but what they actually mean to the parking company. For instance I see my RPM at $430 for one name then the CTR at 200%, RPC $0.22 and Revenue at $1.72. So I'm having a little difficulty making sense of this data.
To find out how much you understand the definitions you discovered yourself, tell me first to what extent the above makes sense to you and we'll take it from there.
Hmmm gosh! This feels like when I took calculus So I'm guessing that the stats I gave you were raw info, and at some point this all gets calculated into new numbers. hmmm yeah I guess you better break it down a little more.
Yup, here goes (let's pretend these are average daily numbers so that the decimal places make sense):
Visitors (input) 3.9
Clicks (input) 7.8
CTR (Clicks/Visitors) 200% Click-through rate (showing how attractive your visitors find the info they believe they would find if they clicked on an ad link)
Revenue (input) $1.72
RPC (Revenue/Clicks) $0.22 Revenue per click (showing how well advertisers pay you for the average click)
RPM (Revenue/Visitors*1000) 440 Revenue per mille (showing how many dollars you can expect a thousand visitors to your site to generate; being a simple measure of your overall success in parking)
Your RPC in this example is pretty standard, the CTR is very good (the average visitor clicked on two ads) and that means that the RPM is very good too.
Sweet, makes a heck of a lot of sense now. I found that they have the meaning of each of these acronyms in the FAQ but certainly not very detailed, examples like this would be helpful. Thanks, I appreciate your info.
hi guys,
wonderful site, btw. it can be a lonely business, this domaining!
i am a newbie, and was wondering the best way to search for keywords or words by volume, i.e. compared to total i.e. global internet search usage? i think i've had a pretty good hunt for threads here for an answer
some people mention overture (which seems dead), others google adsense keyword (which only seems to give a very approximate ranking, and then only relative to similar keywords, not to total web searches). some have mentioned things which seem like you have to pay for them (wordtracker?).
besides that, i've found a few "top 10" type sites, and google trends, both not useful (i'm not looking for just the trends).
is this secred internet information? what do you guys reccommend?
If this thread is still accepting questions, I have one, although I'm not sure it's all that common.
Which methods can a domain name registrant use to check the traffic statistics for his or her domain name (or more accurately, Web site the domain name directs to)?
I think the better way of getting accurate details for your site or domain is by the following steps :-
If you are using a general purpose search i.e. not intended to any specific group of visitors - You can safely use Alexa traffic Ranking for it. Also you can see how many back links pointing to your site.
If you using keyword specific/ visitor specific then try to use the freely available tools on the web that analyzes traffic based on specific keywords. By that way you can know what kind of visitors you are actually getting...
So I'm guessing that the stats I gave you were raw info, and at some point this all gets calculated into new numbers. hmmm yeah I guess you better break it down a little more.
