Double traffic on both Sedo & Parked.com

[Tim Schoon]

Hey,

I have a domain which gets +- 80-100 type-ins/day.
around 70-80% of the traffic goes to sedo parking, the other 20-30% to the parked.com landing page.
The nameservers are set to Parked.com's servers, and the forwarding is turned OFF. how come sedo still gets traffic (+revenue!)? Parked gets traffic and revenue too, at the same time!
If I type in my domain, I get the parked landing page.
parked has a higher CTR so I want my sedo traffic over to parked.
btw - its been doing this for 4days now

Any bozo's know what this is about? I'm a bit lost on this one...

 

[domainpark]

Hey,

I have a domain which gets +- 80-100 type-ins/day.
around 70-80% of the traffic goes to sedo parking, the other 20-30% to the parked.com landing page.
The nameservers are set to Parked.com's servers, and the forwarding is turned OFF. how come sedo still gets traffic (+revenue!)? Parked gets traffic and revenue too, at the same time!
If I type in my domain, I get the parked landing page.
parked has a higher CTR so I want my sedo traffic over to parked.
btw - its been doing this for 4days now

Any bozo's know what this is about? I'm a bit lost on this one...

Hi

Its the DNS.

It must have org parked at sedo correct??

The dns sometimes will take days to 100% resolve when the name servers are changed.

Give it time it will eventaully all go to the parked.com dns

 

[Seabass]

Unless you just changed your DNS entries, go check your DNS settings again. You may have made an error.

If you split your DNS between Parked and Sedo you will send traffic to both.

By splitting the DNS you effectively create a version of what is known as "Round Robbin DNS" which sends the traffic bouncing around to different servers.

Example concurrent DNS Entries:

ns1.sedoparking.com
ns2.parked.com

 

[brightboy]

true?

Unless you just changed your DNS entries, go check your DNS settings again. You may have made an error.

If you split your DNS between Parked and Sedo you will send traffic to both.

By splitting the DNS you effectively create a version of what is known as "Round Robbin DNS" which sends the traffic bouncing around to different servers.

Example concurrent DNS Entries:

ns1.sedoparking.com
ns2.parked.com

are you sure about what you said??is that possible??

 

[Name Trader]

I've had some issues with eNom and DNS. Whois saying 1 thing and eNom DNS saying another. Something about their Magic Folders which don't work quite right (I think). This is way past any possibility it could be the DNS cache. So if it's at eNom. Take it out of it's Magic Folder and correct/save the DNS setting again.

 

[Niamod]

Interesting...I had a domain parked at Sedo, moved to Parked (changed both servers to parked). I was still being paid at Sedo two months after I moved it to Parked. A Parked lander showed. I wondered (still do) how that was possible?

 

[Seabass]

are you sure about what you said??is that possible??

Try it and see. I've done it.

I have split a domain between parking companies and see which one does better. Just split your DNS, or better yet use more than two parking companies to test your traffic with three or four different DNS entries.

There may be some negative effects if your intentions are to keep your search engine positions.

There may also be some other reasons not to do it, but I forgot what they were. I remember reading about it and someone saying not to do it, but I remember discounting what they said and did it anyway.

 

[dnb8]

This can happen if you used redirect to park domain at sedo, sedo redirect is http://sedoparking.com/domain.com, this link could be indexed in search engine and this is why you have traffic at sedo.

 

[goatish]

WRT DNS splitting, what determines how which traffic is routed where?

How's that for a round robin sentence...

 

[npcomplete]

Seabass is correct. This is frequently used for "cheap load balancing", where one domain name is assigned to multiple ip addresses. In BIND I think it first surfaced around BIND 9.0. I never did it on the registrar level though. It is more common for DNS servers where you set multiple "A" records.

Marc

 

[aras]

You can't split traffic with using nameservers like that. If the NS1 works, the domain will direct there. There is no randomization for domain to decide which NS to resolve at different times.

If you wanna split traffic, direct your domain to one server and than do split through FRAME direct to multiple companies via your server. (If even that is allowed)

 

[npcomplete]

You can't split traffic with using nameservers like that. If the NS1 works, the domain will direct there. There is no randomization for domain to decide which NS to resolve at different times.

If you wanna split traffic, direct your domain to one server and than do split through FRAME direct to multiple companies via your server. (If even that is allowed)

That is true, I was thinking more along the lines of multiple A records which is downstream in SOA. You are correct that this doesn't apply in this situation. Usually the second and later nameservers take their info from the primary master to simplify things. In the past I have run two masters without slaving one for special purposes. It was a headache since I always had to make sure that I had identical databases for each of the masters.

Interesting though what happens when you do what the poster suggested. Like I said, I have never tried that, and you are correct, if you want to split traffic this is not the way to do it... even if it does work sometimes.

Marc

 

[aras]

Well, what about the program policies for that? It may be useful sometimes especially when you do not want to completely direct a domain to test a traffic on another parking provider, rather sending 1/3 of the hits maybe. I doubt that they will like this practice.

 

[duceman]

Are you sure you aren't looking at the number of views from the Sedo site, instead of internet traffic?

 

[Seabass]

You can't split traffic with using nameservers like that. If the NS1 works, the domain will direct there. There is no randomization for domain to decide which NS to resolve at different times.

If you wanna split traffic, direct your domain to one server and than do split through FRAME direct to multiple companies via your server. (If even that is allowed)

I understand what you are saying, and I have been through this discussion before. And, yes the DNS is supposed to work like you say.

But...... just try splitting in to, say, three parking comapny's DNS and see how the traffic IS split.

Been there, done that, doing it now...... and I get to see which Parking company works the best.