What is MailboxPark ?

today i got email :

Hello again and thank you for choosing MailboxPark!

Your account has been activated and you can start verifying your domains. Simply click the Upload Domains button the your Manage Domains screen and point your MX records to:

mx17.m1bp.com
mx17.mb5p.com

still don,t know how does it work ?

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Paul Midgen says
November 24, 2016 at 7:51 am

Hi, I’m one of the engineers who built this system.

Once your account is active, you’ve added MX records, and told us the domains you own, we just wait for messages to arrive.

When they do, the system extracts a bunch of information (from/to, date, sending ip, etc.), logs some stats (e.g. messages per domain, etc.) to your account, and then discards the message.

Revenue generated by your domains is directly related to those stats.

Does that help?


Source : http://domainnamewire.com/2016/11/22/mailboxpark-wants-monetize-email-parked-domain-names/

MailboxPark is going to send an email with ads (spam) to everyone that sends an email to your domain names that use their MX. They're paying for valid email addresses which is the same thing spammers have always done, but this is a spin on that.

It's been done before and it didn't end well:

https://www.namepros.com/posts/4190187/

I can see how we could make money off this. Thanks for reminding me about this.

MasterOfMyDomains said:

I can see how we could make money off this. Thanks for reminding me about this.

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i still don,t understand it

what means :

point your MX records to:

mx17.m1bp.com
mx17.mb5p.com

???

maybe i am trapped in a Cave or i need to learn about MX records

its numbers in where you change nameservers at your registrar
same area, different section

I have never used/changed any mx records but have seen it.

MasterOfMyDomains said:

I have never used/changed any mx records but have seen it.

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some people think there is a good way to make some money
do you think it is a good idea ?

i got already an account
but i am not firm with MX

Paul Midgen says

November 24, 2016 at 7:59 am

Hi, I’m one of the engineers who built this system.

Excellent question.

In our business, there’s zero upside to engaging with messages sent to parked domains. The value we care about is derived completely from the received message, no communication with the sender is necessary.

In fact, because the data we derive is used as an indicator of bad behavior on the part of the sender (certain exceptions notwithstanding, e.g. some random human fat-fingering the domain portion of a buddy’s email address), communicating with the sender might alert them that we’re watching. Then they stop sending, and then it’s game over.

So our goal is to be as invisible as technically feasible.

Separately, part of our data analysis efforts are focused on figuring out if it’s possible, in addition to the revenue opportunity, to give domainers data that assists in valuing a given domain for resale.

We’re here to be part of the ecosystem, so any feedback you have about what might help… we’re all ears.

Hopefully that makes sense, happy to give more detail

Joseph Peterson says

November 24, 2016 at 7:54 am

Thanks, Paul, for the clarification.

What you describe involves no reply email. Will that remain true?

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Paul Midgen says

November 24, 2016 at 8:08 am

Hi Joseph, I have another detailed comment awaiting moderation – hopefully that addresses some of your question.

As for the rest…

Sending replies is something that has never come up in our internal discussions to date – we just don’t see the point.

The email industry is a small one and is built on personal relationships. You don’t last long there if you lack integrity.

We understand the domain parking world to be very similar. So, should our intentions ever change, we’ll reconfirm continued participation with our partners at that time.

Jamie Zoch says

November 24, 2016 at 10:49 am

Hi Luc,

I am advising MailboxPark and helping with getting processes that will be domainer friendly, extremely transparent as well as working with many companies in the space.

Being totally honest, the product was launched a little early, so please give us a little bit of time to get things more clearly layed out.

First things first, not all parking companies systems currently work. This relates to domain name servers and “the zone” and what they allow. For an example, if you are parking with Sedo and using SedoParking.com as name servers, Sedo currently doesn’t allow incoming mail to customers. So if you have MX records set for MailboxPark, it doesn’t work. We are working with companies so it does and will provide a list of current services that do work very shortly.

Most registrar default name servers DO currently work, like GoDaddy’s DomainControl.com for an example, NameBright.com etc.

Now relating to your question, once you add domain names to your MailboxPark account (Manage Domains/ Add Domains (single domains) or Upload Domains for bulk via .txt file), the MX records needed are displayed after submitting your domains. You can also access the MX records needed in the “My Account” tab and scrolling down to the MX Records section.

I am working on creating very clear instructions to load domains into MailboxPark, step by step “how to”, as well as creating some How To videos to do bulk MX record changes via registrar that make it extremely easy, similar to doing bulk name server changes.

Many great things to come and this is going to be exciting, not only from an added revenue source but also in discovery (trust me)!

Source : http://domainnamewire.com/2016/11/22/mailboxpark-wants-monetize-email-parked-domain-names/

Is the domainer expected to use the API or is it an additional option

It is a very dangerous kind of monetization...
The domains may be suspended at any time by your registrar due to abuse reports...
I already lost 1 domain @ParkingCrew when email-monetization was enabled there.

Jurgen Wolf said:

It is a very dangerous kind of monetization...
The domains may be suspended at any time by your registrar due to abuse reports...
I already lost 1 domain @ParkingCrew when email-monetization was enabled there.

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Can you clarify what kind of problem you faced, when email monetization was enabled

I already clarified... Abuse on spam activity was received and the domain was immediately suspended by ResellerClub (PDR).

+ RPM of that monetization is slightly higher than zero.

Mailbox park is offering $0.05 per month for each domain , so for parked domains which are not making any money, or domains to be dropped this is an option to be considered. Currently under review, any feedback greatly appreciated

Has anyone received payment from mailboxpark

dnk said:

Has anyone received payment from mailboxpark

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received 2 payments.

davidc1 said:

received 2 payments.

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How many domains do you have with mailboxpark

dnk said:

How many domains do you have with mailboxpark

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a few hundreds

The domains are being shown as unverified without a valid reason suddenly, do you face the same problem

Wasted more than 10 hours adding 70 domains to mailbox park between 25 March 2016 and 6 April 2017 and more than 2000 emails were received , However on 7 April 2017, due to unknown reasons the domains were suddently not verified despite changing the mx records as specified and the amount due also was not updated. Is anyone else facing the same problem

The matter appears to be resolved today

when using this service can you actually see and read the emails sent to your domains or do you only see a graph with the amount of emails received? wondering if this service can be used as a catch-all for your domains