PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[Mike]

Just moved to parked & blown away by it.
I'm amazed sedo or namedrive are in business still tbh.

for me the best bit is easiness of use of the site & the customisation of you r pages. They're mini websites with tags, your own content etc.
For anyone that hasnt tried these guys, theyre awesome.
I'm very impressed. Still playing with toys on the site lol & working through my domains! :sold:

Yep, i agree. In regards to options and site creation, Parked is currently setting the standards.
Sedo and ND have long lost my interest. << purely personal statement

IB

 

[TOXX]

It seems very interesting.

One of my domains is retaining its CTR $ value, even after finalized stats.
Others are losing big time. One of 'em went down from $1.19 per click - it had 6 clicks, to a total of $1.19 for all 6 clicks. In other words, 5 clicks or $5.95 went out the window. (just naming one as example)
I can only assume that Yahoo punished me for something there, not exactly sure for what though.
I'm guessing, or rather reasonably sure that the Q rating is an automated rating which leads to domains not being evaluated by their true opportunities. For example. If someone has a domain "Overhauling.com" it's easy to say that the domain doesn't have real meaning, while in reality, the domain is bouncing of the very well accepted TV show and subsequently brings in targeted revenue that should be seen as high quality traffic. Correct? Now, if that's the case, is there any way to "veto" Yahoo's (automated) evaluation and get a manual review?

On the bright(er) side, the domain converting best is not getting beat down by Yahoo's finalization. Now, of course i wonder how i can drive more traffic to the main money maker...

I wonder what's up the sleeve of Parked.com, i'm sure there are further additions to come and more opportunities to create sites that look more closely to fully developed sites. Pete, have any insight on that?

IB

Well, I will try to get some insider info if I meet up with Donny this week...I know there are lots of new "goodies" on the Parked.com "To Add" list...What's most important to me (like you touch base in your thread Mike) is for Parked.com to EVOLVE with the times and not let parking die!
...
We will NOT let this happen! :tu:

 

[Donny]

Just to clarify a few things, this is more across the board then I originally thought. I have recently done some testing with many different ways to send traffic to Yahoo including YPN. And everything is down across the board. So it doesn't matter if you are a 2 or a 10, you are being affected by whatever this is.

I wish I could say more, but until I know more I really can't.

Donny

 

[StrictlyNames]

Donny,

You're meeting with Yahoo tomorrow, correct?

 

[Donny]

They pushed it to Friday. But it's still on.

Donny

 

[Domagon]

As I've said in several replies to others questioning parking companies, they have far more to lose than most domainers - it's in their interest to ensure top payouts to domain owners to the best of their ability.

Keep up the great work Donny and the other folks at Parked - it's greatly appreciated

Ron

p.s. there is an opportunity in growing parking that Parked is missing ... IDNs ... is that being worked on? ... even if only in beta testing, I'd be willing to move my IDNs over asap.

 

[DnPresident]

That sounds more like it....You say everything is down across the board, it doesn't matter if your a 2 or a ten. Some of us that are 10's must be getting paid for being a 2...It's killing me but I'm glad to hear your on to it.

The update is greatly appreciated...Look forward to hearing the outcome.

Just to clarify a few things, this is more across the board then I originally thought. I have recently done some testing with many different ways to send traffic to Yahoo including YPN. And everything is down across the board. So it doesn't matter if you are a 2 or a 10, you are being affected by whatever this is.

I wish I could say more, but until I know more I really can't.

Donny

 

[TOXX]

One thing, for sure, we are in great hands with Donny and the Parked team! :tu:
...
I am certain (99.9%) this LOW is transient.

 

[kylehove]

Hi Everyone... I have a question and would like someone to please answer for me... I have over 270 urls ($2000 worth of Reg fees) that were with GoDaddy and saw only $340 in 6 months... I swtiched some to Parked.com and some to Sedo.com... (about 4 days ago) since, I have made about $3 in Parked and $2 in Sedo....

Question #1 What is average as a newbie... Did it take you guys a while to get things going with Parked?

Anyway, I was contacted by a GD rep who tried to tell me that I should expect slow growth but I can see his sales angle very clearly... He told me that I really need to wait 3 to 5 years after a DNS has been parked with them before it will produce... Funny how that wasn't part of the sales page with cashparking...

I would please love to hear from someone about their experience with Parked... Considering the recent changes, I do understand that things were shook up by Yahoo...

 

[Mike]

I'm definitely not the most qualified person to answer your question, Varon, SDX, Donny, and a few others can give you more insight into the Yahoo "problematic".
However, if according to GD, a domain would take between 3-5 years to produce acceptable results, we'd all be in a world of extreme financial pain.

IB

 

[mrizos]

That sounds more like it....You say everything is down across the board, it doesn't matter if your a 2 or a ten. Some of us that are 10's must be getting paid for being a 2...It's killing me but I'm glad to hear your on to it.

The update is greatly appreciated...Look forward to hearing the outcome.

How do you find out what your TQ rating is?

 

[TOXX]

How do you find out what your TQ rating is?

Ask your account rep mrizos.

 

[mrizos]

Ask your account rep mrizos.

will do, thx sdx.

well...not good news here. I found out my tq score is a 1 and there is a chance yahoo will ask parked.com to shut my account down!?!?!

How do I raise my score? I really like parked.com and don't want to lose my account.

TIA

 

[tpruby]

Easy Question

IN Parked, the customize page, it allows you to add written content at the bottom of the parked page.

I added a lot of written content on one site I own, saved it and confirmed it was still saved in my edited page, but it is not visible at all on my main landing page of parked?

Please, someone tell me where this written content I added is, or is this indicative of something wrong with parked?

Thanks

 

[hitchhiker]

Hi Everyone... I have a question and would like someone to please answer for me... I have over 270 urls ($2000 worth of Reg fees) that were with GoDaddy and saw only $340 in 6 months... I swtiched some to Parked.com and some to Sedo.com... (about 4 days ago) since, I have made about $3 in Parked and $2 in Sedo....

Question #1 What is average as a newbie... Did it take you guys a while to get things going with Parked?

Anyway, I was contacted by a GD rep who tried to tell me that I should expect slow growth but I can see his sales angle very clearly... He told me that I really need to wait 3 to 5 years after a DNS has been parked with them before it will produce... Funny how that wasn't part of the sales page with cashparking...

I would please love to hear from someone about their experience with Parked... Considering the recent changes, I do understand that things were shook up by Yahoo...

if it has no traffic today, its not going to get more traffic a year from now . . . unless its a word that has a pop cultural reference . . .

looking at your domains name (in your sig), you need to do more homework before buying them. . . atleast get domains with high search frequencies . . .

 

[Mike]

will do, thx sdx.

well...not good news here. I found out my tq score is a 1 and there is a chance yahoo will ask parked.com to shut my account down!?!?!

How do I raise my score? I really like parked.com and don't want to lose my account.

TIA

Can Yahoo even do that? I cannot imagine that they have that much power of a third party company that they're working with. That would be downright insane and would make Parked.com just another subsidiary of Yahoo.
Also, i'm under the impression that if Yahoo doesn't have matching ads for your domains or is not willing/incapable of feeding that Parked.com has a feed from Ask as backup. So, just because Yahoo and their absolutely ridiculous Quality rating is in existence, doesn't mean that you should loose your acct...

Donny, have any input on this?

IB

 

[vbigdeli]

will do, thx sdx.

well...not good news here. I found out my tq score is a 1 and there is a chance yahoo will ask parked.com to shut my account down!?!?!

How do I raise my score? I really like parked.com and don't want to lose my account.

TIA

Move your names to Google based feeds like Sedo,Namedrive,Fabulous or Parking Panel...You can also keep domains with US traffic at Parked and move your Non-US traffic domains to another Google based parking provider.

 

[vbigdeli]

Can Yahoo even do that? I cannot imagine that they have that much power of a third party company that they're working with. That would be downright insane and would make Parked.com just another subsidiary of Yahoo.
Also, i'm under the impression that if Yahoo doesn't have matching ads for your domains or is not willing/incapable of feeding that Parked.com has a feed from Ask as backup. So, just because Yahoo and their absolutely ridiculous Quality rating is in existence, doesn't mean that you should loose your acct...

Donny, have any input on this?

IB

But they will do that..AA just suspend accounts if yahoo ask them.

 

[mrizos]

I think i just figured it out....most of my traffic and clicks were coming from outside the us and canada.

 

[Mike]

But they will do that..AA just suspend accounts if yahoo ask them.

I can't emphasize enough how much i hope that you're wrong. If that's indeed the case i'd have to question the entire business philosophy of parking companies, the principles of evaluation, etc.
It would be good to know what Yahoo is basing their Quality score on.

Again, Donny - any news on that?

IB

 

[StrictlyNames]

looks like it's happening now. click on portfolio, then "yesterday" from dropdown box. Will have overall update. Just not individual updates yet.

 

[Avo19]

I thought acceptable traffic for Yahoo was US, UK, Aus, Ca, West Euro, Japan & Sth Korea?

 

[vbigdeli]

Donny : is that possible to redirect domains with low TQ score to your Ask feed(meanwhile.com)? add this feature !

You can also redirect visitors that may cause TQ score dropped to Ask feed.

 

[Donny]

How can I explain this easily. I don't know which domains in a partcular account make somebody's TQ score go higher or lower. I'm not told that information. We can redirect domains to our Ask feed without any problems, but it's done on a request basis.

TQ scores as I understand them are very simple to understand just not figure out. Everything is based on categories, so if in the health category on Yahoo.com the advertisers tell Yahoo that they convert at 1 in 100, that means that a 10 in the health category is converting at less than 1 in 100 so maybe 1 in 50. Now what is a 9 or a 2 in the health category, I have no idea.

So now we go to the travel category, let's say it may convert at 1 in 400. And the same thing happens as above.

I then think they combine all the scores and come up with your average.

One more thing, I have been told it's based on clicks not revenue.


mrizos - Your score isn't a 1. I'll send you something...

Donny

 

[Sleepys]

Is anyone else getting this error message when they try to login:

Fatal error: Unable to connect to MySQL server on 192.168.226.5 in /www/phpinclude/database.inc.php on line 200

??

Oops, I see there is a hardware update now, nevermind.