PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

ZOX · May 12, 2007

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

Donny · Feb 12, 2008

We just sent this in an email to all of our Parked.com customers.

Donny

Dear Parked.com customers,

We were notified today by Yahoo that all Yahoo based parking companies, including Parked.com, must begin enforcing the no arbitrage/no paid traffic general provision. As a reminder, Section 2 Subsection g. in the Parked.com Terms of Service states:

"All other types of traffic including bought traffic, traffic driven by PPC campaigns, traffic directed from hyperlinks are not permitted. If your traffic originates from any sources other than type-in and search engine traffic, you will not be entitled to payment as per this Agreement. Regular checks are carried out and we reserve the right to suspend any domain from our Service at any time, on our sole discretion, if we reasonably believe that you have violated this Agreement; for example, if we suspect that the traffic on your domain is bought, generated or redirected in any way that contravenes these terms and conditions."

For more information please see http://www.parked.com/tos/.

Accordingly, all arbitrage must stop effective 1pm PST on Thursday, February 14, 2008. Even though arbitrage will no longer be allowed, all accounts will still be paid.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact your account manager.

We thank you for your business and continued support.

Parked.com

madpoet · Feb 12, 2008

Ohhh.... crap.

domainpark · Feb 12, 2008

Donny said:
We just sent this in an email to all of our Parked.com customers.

Donny

Dear Parked.com customers,

We were notified today by Yahoo that all Yahoo based parking companies, including Parked.com, must begin enforcing the no arbitrage/no paid traffic general provision. As a reminder, Section 2 Subsection g. in the Parked.com Terms of Service states:

"All other types of traffic including bought traffic, traffic driven by PPC campaigns, traffic directed from hyperlinks are not permitted. If your traffic originates from any sources other than type-in and search engine traffic, you will not be entitled to payment as per this Agreement. Regular checks are carried out and we reserve the right to suspend any domain from our Service at any time, on our sole discretion, if we reasonably believe that you have violated this Agreement; for example, if we suspect that the traffic on your domain is bought, generated or redirected in any way that contravenes these terms and conditions."

For more information please see http://www.parked.com/tos/.

Accordingly, all arbitrage must stop effective 1pm PST on Thursday, February 14, 2008. Even though arbitrage will no longer be allowed, all accounts will still be paid.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact your account manager.

We thank you for your business and continued support.

Parked.com

WOW

Thanks Donny for informing all and giving a little time to stop campaigns.

This is gonna affect alot of domainers in a HUGE way

mrizos · Feb 12, 2008

well...back to working for a living...

madpoet · Feb 12, 2008

Sooo... going back to the Ask.com feed, can we choose to use it entirely and still have Arbitrage traffic? Or is it going away completely?

afarmer86 · Feb 12, 2008

who ever can come up with another solution will make some huge money.

This will not only cost Yahoo, but Google and other ppc providers,

domainpark · Feb 12, 2008

madpoet said:
Sooo... going back to the Ask.com feed, can we choose to use it entirely and still have Arbitrage traffic? Or is it going away completely?

ask.com does not allow arbritrage either.

So pretty much kiss all arbritrage in the domain industry goodbye

johname · Feb 12, 2008

The problem was all the talking in the fourm about it, it got too many inexperienced people regging arbi only names and making a mess of it that yahoo could not ignore. imo

namegame · Feb 12, 2008

So, as I read this we are able to submit names to search engines, right? I didn't realize this which could be a major boost to getting visitors.

SebastianJu · Feb 12, 2008

*sniff* Too bad... The bad thing is Im new to it, the good thing is Im new to it...

Is there an alternative? PM me who knows one...

Greetings!
Sebastian

Mike · Feb 12, 2008

johname said:
The problem was all the talking in the fourm about it, it got too many inexperienced people regging arbi only names and making a mess of it that yahoo could not ignore. imo

a 5 page thread with discussions about PPC traffic has most likely nothing to do with this.
If Yahoo and subsequently Google prefer to loose hundreds of millions in ad/arbitrage revenue, i have to question their intelligence. Welcome to the world of free trade.

I'm surprised that this is obviously just accepted "as-is" without any resistance.

Donny?

M.

turner10 · Feb 12, 2008

This is going to be a fun thread to read all day today after this news.

johname · Feb 12, 2008

Anyone really think this would not happen one day? The google business plan naturally would become the standard

biohammer · Feb 12, 2008

Oh thats not good

netmeg · Feb 12, 2008

But expected.

madpoet · Feb 12, 2008

Now to find an alternative. This hurts... badly. But I can't let it stop my momentum

cheezecake · Feb 12, 2008

mad rush on Whypark.com accounts

If anyone is going to open one and use adsense or YPN let me know and I will split the referal fee with you

johname · Feb 12, 2008

cheezecake said:
mad rush on Whypark.com accounts If anyone is going to open one and use adsense or YPN let me know and I will split the referal fee with you

becareful with adsense on whypark lol

cheezecake · Feb 12, 2008

why adsense dosent like it on whypark?

here is what I think

yahoo will soon realize that 50% of there revenue dissapears overnight on the 14th. May take a few weeks or a couple months but I believe they will allow it back.

Google.com is going to have a rude awakening as well becuase my bet is 50% of there ads are for arbi.

MSn has a ton to but would be the least exposedin my opinion but will still feel the effect

here is the thing one of the rumors of yahoo/msn deal was yahoo partnering with google to stave off a takeover could this be part of the deal? I doubt it. yahoo wont be doing anything for MSN after dumping the bid from MSN but why would they cut out cash flow when someone is trying to take them over and they dont want it to happen? Dumbfounding

Spade · Feb 12, 2008

lol. Great.

deannam · Feb 12, 2008

What does this mean:

"...traffic directed from hyperlinks are not permitted"

Does this mean paid links, links that are misleading, etc.? Or all links on all sites?

For example, in the past I've used article marketing with my parked page as the link in the bio box. My rep told me this was OK (at the time). Is it still OK?

cheezecake · Feb 12, 2008

guess this puts a premium on type in names

also guess parked.com wont be spending as much at the traffic auction

afarmer86 · Feb 12, 2008

if you add unique content (and I mean unique) can still not do it anymore?

domainpark · Feb 12, 2008

deannam said:
What does this mean:

"...traffic directed from hyperlinks are not permitted"

Does this mean paid links, links that are misleading, etc.? Or all links on all sites?

For example, in the past I've used article marketing with my parked page as the link in the bio box. My rep told me this was OK (at the time). Is it still OK?

Other than reg arbritrage style traffic I'd say PM Donny giving specifics on origins of traffic and get the 100% ok or not from him. That's my intent

Donny if ya get a TON of PM's I will take blame :hehe:

cheezecake · Feb 12, 2008

I also guess I will be spending about 10k on ads until feb 14th. will need some cash to tide me over need one last blowout I guess

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