Above.com Review - Page 5

stub · 01-06-2012, 10:41 PM

From the Above Manual

Originally Posted by Above.com Manual

Maximizer

When Enabled, Above.com will utilize various strategies to maximize the performance of all domains in the folder. An example of these strategies includes the Redirection of traffic from geographic regions typically not monetized by the parking services, such as Chinese Traffic.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/parking-and-traffic-monetization/675233-above-com-review.html

The methods used include affiliate, CPC, CPA, and other feeds, when traffic is not well monetized by parking services.

By enabling this option, you authorize Above.com to employ such strategies to maximize the domain revenues. For more information, please contact your account manager.

stub · 01-20-2012, 05:26 PM

For the first 2/3rds of January, I'm running at a rate which will beat all my previous months sales with the exception of Dec-11. Things only need to improve slightly over the last 1/3rd of the month to maybe be a new record month.

This has been a continuing trend for over a year now and overwhelmingly so over the last four months. Of course every month is different with domains bought, sold, dropped. Am I happy with the results? Well yes, because every month is a new record (or close), but it's still a very long way from paying my renewal fees.

stub · 01-30-2012, 11:03 AM

This is going to be another record month. That's 4 new records over the last 4 months. So either parking is not dead yet or Above.com are doing a good job at maximizing my revenues. Either way, I'm happy

stub · 02-02-2012, 05:31 PM

OK. The results are in. Jan-12 was the fourth record month in a row. It was a whopping 10% more than my previous best month, last month, Dec-11. The split was Bodis 29%, DomainSponsor 37%, Voodoo 29%, Maximizer 5%.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=675233

I don't know why this link shows up in my thread. It's not in my original post or even when I edit my post.

Up to last month Bodis was almost 50% of the total, but it looks like Voodoo is eating into Bodis's share. DomainSponsor also had a good month. I'm glad to see Maximizer share down at 5% (rather than the 15% it has been in the past). It means more share is going to the (better paying) parking companies.

Jan-12 was my best ever parking revenue month. That's 4 months in a row with increasing best ever months. As I said in my last post, either Above.com is doing a great job at maximizing my revenues, or domain parking isn't dead. Personally, I think it's both.

stub · 02-16-2012, 05:23 PM

Had a monster 1st half of Feb-12, in line with my best ever month of Jan-12 but it trailed off a bit at the end, so the 2nd half of Feb-12 is probably not going to be as good as the first half, and it's a short month.

Shienarier · 02-18-2012, 10:37 AM

When signing up, Company is a required field.
Does that mean that I have to run a business to use above.com?

stub · 02-18-2012, 04:22 PM

Nope.

namegame · 02-18-2012, 05:47 PM

Will above.com improve results if only one parking company is used?

avik34 · 02-21-2012, 02:02 AM

Something wrong with it.
I have disabled namedrive accont but traffic comes to it

i have only 2 provider enabled:
ww25. - bodis
ww38. - parking crew

But some domains redirected to http://ww5.domain.com
who is it ?

Some domains removed from Bodis portfolio automatically
I think that Maximizer have conflict with Bodis

wolfis.com · 02-21-2012, 08:13 AM

thats right - something is really wrong with that system - it started last week - first pages on the conrtol panel started to load very slow - then my vistioros where a lot less ( by 1/3 )and my revenue gotten less too ( by 1/3 ) - i asked someone i know whats going on and he noticed that my domain that should have gone only to voodoo resolved to an unknown google feed and i was never credited for ( should not go to the maximizer as they all are us traffic and i also have a huge fat ZERO on the maximizer - i changed many important nameservers back where i have control who get my domains - i also contacted above but they have not replied so far. not sure what is going on but i do not like it !

avik34 · 02-21-2012, 08:33 AM

Dear ....,

The Bodis system has resolved 1 domain name conflicts which were pending approval. The following domain name(s) have been approved and added to your account:

elayem-dz.com

These domain names are now in your account and can be managed normally using the Bodis interface.

Now I see that domain again not in my portfolio !!!

avik34 · 02-22-2012, 07:15 AM

Looks like a bugs fixed

applywelfare.com · 02-28-2012, 07:42 AM

I met a problem was my above account show revenues quit different than my bodis account revenues and click.less too much!what's wrong?And something I didn't understand its if I change my domain's DNS into abovedotcom,but I parked this domain at another company,does above will auto match visiter's to different company?

stub · 02-29-2012, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by namegame

Will above.com improve results if only one parking company is used?

Nope.

---------- Post added at 04:35 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:30 AM ----------

Originally Posted by applywelfare.com

I met a problem was my above account show revenues quit different than my bodis account revenues and click.less too much!what's wrong?And something I didn't understand its if I change my domain's DNS into abovedotcom,but I parked this domain at another company,does above will auto match visiter's to different company?

You need to add the domain to your parking company and to above.com, then set your nameservers to above.com, and make sure you have your parking company setup in above.com

**matt_bodis** · 02-29-2012, 01:59 PM

Above counts visitors separately, and Bodis counts visitors using its own system. So there is always going to be a discrepency between Above and the parking companies.

And the reason for that is because most parking companies try to filter out invalid visitors. Also, there's different ways on counting unique visitor (same visit once per 24 hours, once per week, once per hour, every parking company and system has their own methodology).

stub · 03-01-2012, 04:36 PM

I agree with Matt. There will always be discrepancies with traffic numbers*. But in my experience the monetary results have always been the same, except for the 3 days which are not confirmed and are in red in the above.com reports.

* This became more pronounced after the switch to the DNS System in Oct-11, where Above admit to have been forwarding more junk traffic to providers than before, because their comprehensive filters were obsoleted by the new system (something about javascript).

applywelfare.com · 03-02-2012, 05:41 AM

Thanks stub and matt.I see

stub · 03-03-2012, 05:10 PM

Originally Posted by wolfis.com

thats right - something is really wrong with that system - it started last week - first pages on the conrtol panel started to load very slow - then my vistioros where a lot less ( by 1/3 )and my revenue gotten less too ( by 1/3 ) - i asked someone i know whats going on and he noticed that my domain that should have gone only to voodoo resolved to an unknown google feed and i was never credited for ( should not go to the maximizer as they all are us traffic and i also have a huge fat ZERO on the maximizer - i changed many important nameservers back where i have control who get my domains - i also contacted above but they have not replied so far. not sure what is going on but i do not like it !

Did you ever get a reply from Above.com?

ibidu · 03-07-2012, 08:09 AM

Does anyone know what the column with the title "Hits" represents precisely in the stats table? I get hundreds of hits on some of my domains daily. That's bizarre!

Could it be that every time a person thinks about a word in your domain name, above.com considers that as a hit?!

stub · 03-09-2012, 01:55 PM

From their manual,

Quote:

What do the columns mean?

Hits

Total hits (page impressions) for all domains for the selected period. This figure includes ALL hits received by the domain including images, crawlers, bots, etc.

ivansilvio · 03-11-2012, 03:38 AM

Great review..thanks

namegame · 03-19-2012, 09:43 AM

I had zero hits yesterday and so far today...down from thousands previous days. Just me or is anyone else experiencing this also?

ibidu · 03-20-2012, 12:46 AM

So did I and I knew instantly there was something wrong so I emailed them straight away and the following is their response!!

"Incomplete days and days with estimated values are in red and will update when final results are available from the providers (usually a few days)."

Edit:The system now seems to have recovered the backlog data and it looks as it's been fixed.

01-20-2012, 05:26 PM	THREAD STARTER #102 (permalink)
stub NamePros Expert Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 7,309	For the first 2/3rds of January, I'm running at a rate which will beat all my previous months sales with the exception of Dec-11. Things only need to improve slightly over the last 1/3rd of the month to maybe be a new record month. This has been a continuing trend for over a year now and overwhelmingly so over the last four months. Of course every month is different with domains bought, sold, dropped. Am I happy with the results? Well yes, because every month is a new record (or close), but it's still a very long way from paying my renewal fees. __________________ COMDots - DNDots - StubDomains - WebmasterUnlimited - DNSPortfolio

01-30-2012, 11:03 AM	THREAD STARTER #103 (permalink)
stub NamePros Expert Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 7,309	This is going to be another record month. That's 4 new records over the last 4 months. So either parking is not dead yet or Above.com are doing a good job at maximizing my revenues. Either way, I'm happy __________________ COMDots - DNDots - StubDomains - WebmasterUnlimited - DNSPortfolio

02-02-2012, 05:31 PM	THREAD STARTER #104 (permalink)
stub NamePros Expert Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 7,309	OK. The results are in. Jan-12 was the fourth record month in a row. It was a whopping 10% more than my previous best month, last month, Dec-11. The split was Bodis 29%, DomainSponsor 37%, Voodoo 29%, Maximizer 5%. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=675233 I don't know why this link shows up in my thread. It's not in my original post or even when I edit my post. Up to last month Bodis was almost 50% of the total, but it looks like Voodoo is eating into Bodis's share. DomainSponsor also had a good month. I'm glad to see Maximizer share down at 5% (rather than the 15% it has been in the past). It means more share is going to the (better paying) parking companies. Jan-12 was my best ever parking revenue month. That's 4 months in a row with increasing best ever months. As I said in my last post, either Above.com is doing a great job at maximizing my revenues, or domain parking isn't dead. Personally, I think it's both. __________________ COMDots - DNDots - StubDomains - WebmasterUnlimited - DNSPortfolio Last edited by stub; 02-02-2012 at 05:36 PM.

02-16-2012, 05:23 PM	THREAD STARTER #105 (permalink)
stub NamePros Expert Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 7,309	Had a monster 1st half of Feb-12, in line with my best ever month of Jan-12 but it trailed off a bit at the end, so the 2nd half of Feb-12 is probably not going to be as good as the first half, and it's a short month. __________________ COMDots - DNDots - StubDomains - WebmasterUnlimited - DNSPortfolio

02-18-2012, 10:37 AM	#106 (permalink)
Shienarier New Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 2	When signing up, Company is a required field. Does that mean that I have to run a business to use above.com? __________________ http://www.nerdyentertainment.com

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02-18-2012, 04:22 PM	THREAD STARTER #107 (permalink)
stub NamePros Expert Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 7,309	Nope. __________________ COMDots - DNDots - StubDomains - WebmasterUnlimited - DNSPortfolio

02-18-2012, 05:47 PM	#108 (permalink)
namegame NamePros Regular Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 347	Will above.com improve results if only one parking company is used?

02-21-2012, 02:02 AM	#109 (permalink)
avik34 NamePros Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 37	Something wrong with it. I have disabled namedrive accont but traffic comes to it i have only 2 provider enabled: ww25. - bodis ww38. - parking crew But some domains redirected to http://ww5.domain.com who is it ? Some domains removed from Bodis portfolio automatically I think that Maximizer have conflict with Bodis Last edited by avik34; 02-21-2012 at 06:31 AM.

02-21-2012, 08:13 AM	#110 (permalink)
wolfis.com NamePros Regular Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: amish country Posts: 501	thats right - something is really wrong with that system - it started last week - first pages on the conrtol panel started to load very slow - then my vistioros where a lot less ( by 1/3 )and my revenue gotten less too ( by 1/3 ) - i asked someone i know whats going on and he noticed that my domain that should have gone only to voodoo resolved to an unknown google feed and i was never credited for ( should not go to the maximizer as they all are us traffic and i also have a huge fat ZERO on the maximizer - i changed many important nameservers back where i have control who get my domains - i also contacted above but they have not replied so far. not sure what is going on but i do not like it ! __________________ wolfis.com : when a name hits your eye like a big pizza pie , that's amore...

02-21-2012, 08:33 AM	#111 (permalink)
avik34 NamePros Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 37	Dear ...., The Bodis system has resolved 1 domain name conflicts which were pending approval. The following domain name(s) have been approved and added to your account: elayem-dz.com These domain names are now in your account and can be managed normally using the Bodis interface. Now I see that domain again not in my portfolio !!!

02-22-2012, 07:15 AM	#112 (permalink)
avik34 NamePros Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 37	Looks like a bugs fixed Last edited by avik34; 02-22-2012 at 04:27 PM.

02-28-2012, 07:42 AM	#113 (permalink)
applywelfare.com Account Suspended Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 23	I met a problem was my above account show revenues quit different than my bodis account revenues and click.less too much!what's wrong?And something I didn't understand its if I change my domain's DNS into abovedotcom,but I parked this domain at another company,does above will auto match visiter's to different company?

02-29-2012, 01:59 PM	#115 (permalink)
matt_bodis Bodis.com Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 2,689	Above counts visitors separately, and Bodis counts visitors using its own system. So there is always going to be a discrepency between Above and the parking companies. And the reason for that is because most parking companies try to filter out invalid visitors. Also, there's different ways on counting unique visitor (same visit once per 24 hours, once per week, once per hour, every parking company and system has their own methodology).

03-01-2012, 04:36 PM	THREAD STARTER #116 (permalink)
stub NamePros Expert Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 7,309	I agree with Matt. There will always be discrepancies with traffic numbers. But in my experience the monetary results have always been the same, except for the 3 days which are not confirmed and are in red in the above.com reports. This became more pronounced after the switch to the DNS System in Oct-11, where Above admit to have been forwarding more junk traffic to providers than before, because their comprehensive filters were obsoleted by the new system (something about javascript). __________________ COMDots - DNDots - StubDomains - WebmasterUnlimited - DNSPortfolio Last edited by stub; 03-01-2012 at 04:40 PM.

03-02-2012, 05:41 AM	#117 (permalink)
applywelfare.com Account Suspended Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 23	Thanks stub and matt.I see

03-07-2012, 08:09 AM	#119 (permalink)
ibidu NamePros Regular Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 408	Does anyone know what the column with the title "Hits" represents precisely in the stats table? I get hundreds of hits on some of my domains daily. That's bizarre! Could it be that every time a person thinks about a word in your domain name, above.com considers that as a hit?!

03-11-2012, 03:38 AM	#121 (permalink)
ivansilvio New Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 12	Great review..thanks

03-19-2012, 09:43 AM	#122 (permalink)
namegame NamePros Regular Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 347	I had zero hits yesterday and so far today...down from thousands previous days. Just me or is anyone else experiencing this also?

03-20-2012, 12:46 AM	#123 (permalink)
ibidu NamePros Regular Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 408	So did I and I knew instantly there was something wrong so I emailed them straight away and the following is their response!! "Incomplete days and days with estimated values are in red and will update when final results are available from the providers (usually a few days)." Edit:The system now seems to have recovered the backlog data and it looks as it's been fixed. Last edited by ibidu; 03-20-2012 at 12:51 AM. Reason: Update

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