Is parking dead?

[mpls]

Hi guys, in your opinion, is parking dead?

Look at my last month screenshot, there are a lot of days with clicks and $ 0 revenue. 3 clicks and $ 0.01....

My stats:
CTR: 1.5% (LOL)
RPC: $ 0.01 (LOL! But only when I'm lucky! Otherwise 3 clicks $ 0!)
RPM: $ 0.11 (Seriously??? 1k user to earn $ 0.11? $ 0.11??)
Last month earning: $ 0.09 (LOL!!!!) .

I suppose I'll move away all my domain from parking companies and redirect them to sedo/uniregistry/afternic landing page.

This situation does not make sense.

 

[maksimfa]

here are my CTR
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all typein

Frank, can you pm me some of your names, interested how it appears to get such click rates.

Thanks.

 

[maksimfa]

Alas, Sedo does not disclose what % they pay out either. Just that they pay out a percentage at their discretion.

https://sedo.com/us/about-us/policies/domain-parking-terms-and-conditions-sedocom/

So.... any transparent company out there. lol.

 

[frank-germany]

Frank, can you pm me some of your names, interested how it appears to get such click rates.

Thanks.

sorry no

 

[maksimfa]

Next one... Again... no % set.

4.1 We will pay you a commission of net revenue we receive on the basis of your participation in the Program in accordance with the following:

a. the commission, which is a percentage of the net revenues earned, shall be determined by us based on your Domain Name portfolio in the Program;

b. we determine such commissions in tiers and such tiers shall be determined by the size, source and quality of your Domain Name portfolio in the Program;

 

[maksimfa]

Parking Crew .... cannot find TOS but in the FAQ they just say they pay the highest percentage due to low overhead.

The travesty of it all is.... who knows what the percentage is anyway since none of the big ones I have viewed far actually disclose what they pay out.

 

[maksimfa]

Spoke too soon. Seems like the most honest of them is Godaddy with CashParking.

Offering between 60% and 80%.
https://www.godaddy.com/domains/cashparking

 

[Donny]

The reason we don't publically say what the number is that it's not allowed for us to publically state what that number is. It's in our agreement with our upstream ad provider.

Donny

 

[maksimfa]

The reason we don't publically say what the number is that it's not allowed for us to publically state what that number is. It's in our agreement with our upstream ad provider.

Donny

Thanks for chiming in. So how come GoDaddy publishes their numbers? Can you ballpark it?
I am sure you can understand how if you look at it on the surface... someone with a serious portfolio can be concerned...

There is ZERO data published by the providers I reviewed, and Sedo basically says.... just try us, and all of the TOS are completely non-transparent.

As much as I don't love GoDaddy, they are the only ones I saw so far that actually give you a ballpark.

 

[Donny]

Maybe you should actually ask the company you are using and see what they tell you. We pay higher than that number that you mentioned. But usually if you are actually using somebody and then ask them they will tell you. But not if you are just shopping around.

Donny

 

[maksimfa]

Maybe you should actually ask the company you are using and see what they tell you. We pay higher than that number that you mentioned. But usually if you are actually using somebody and then ask them they will tell you. But not if you are just shopping around.

Donny

You have a PM inbound. =)

And I do give you credit for perhaps the most transparent TOS that I have seen out there.

I am sure you can understand how people can think that way.

 

[Donny]

You would need to send a ticket into our system so we can look at your account, etc...

Our TOS is pretty easy to understand, it's not nearly as easy as a new one we are working on that is written in plain English. It just is a lot more complicated with some things so we haven't implemented it yet.

Donny

 

[maksimfa]

You would need to send a ticket into our system so we can look at your account, etc...

Our TOS is pretty easy to understand, it's not nearly as easy as a new one we are working on that is written in plain English. It just is a lot more complicated with some things so we haven't implemented it yet.

Donny

Thanks!

 

[MapleDots]

And I do give you credit for perhaps the most transparent TOS that I have seen out there.

And I give you kudos for doing all this work and posting it.

 

[anantj]

what if someone proactively did some backlink and PR efforts and social media promo? to boost traffic? no guarantee of increased profits right?

If your parking provider uses Adsense to monetize the domains, you'll be violating their ToS with this and will likely get banned.

 

[anantj]

Hi guys, in your opinion, is parking dead?

Look at my last month screenshot, there are a lot of days with clicks and $ 0 revenue. 3 clicks and $ 0.01....

My stats:
CTR: 1.5% (LOL)
RPC: $ 0.01 (LOL! But only when I'm lucky! Otherwise 3 clicks $ 0!)
RPM: $ 0.11 (Seriously??? 1k user to earn $ 0.11? $ 0.11??)
Last month earning: $ 0.09 (LOL!!!!) .

I suppose I'll move away all my domain from parking companies and redirect them to sedo/uniregistry/afternic landing page.

This situation does not make sense.

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From my experience, PC is really bad. I've had better experience with Bodis and for one particular domain, with Afternic. PC by far has always performed the worst for me. I've also tried Sedo and Uni with no success. Have not been "accepted" by Voodoo and Parklogic so can't talk about them.

 

[anantj]

Forget about your friend. There are billions of users, a low percentage probably using ad blocker.
If you concentrate on parking for your business, say goodbye now and don't waste your time.

Estimates range between 20-35% which is NOT a low percentage by any stretch

 

[frank-germany]

The reason we don't publically say what the number is that it's not allowed for us to publically state what that number is. It's in our agreement with our upstream ad provider.

Donny

I would actullay choose a parking company that is totally transparent
over each other platform

even if I earn less

( joking - as that seems impossible to me )


parking means trusting

as long as you earn money
nobody dares to complain

but as soon as you enhance your investment into domains
and income diminuishes continuesly
you will become suspicious

seeing parking companies buying other parking companies
gives aditional doubt

what is the use of that?
everybody is a member of each of those companies anyway

how do they pay these aquisitions?
based on parking income ?
.obviously.


in the last years the cost of doing advertising has not become cheaper
we should expect a much better income from parking meanwhile


what is the daily work of a parking company?

its not improving income for the parked domains
thats for sure

 

[frank-germany]

I own a domain (.de)
keywordkeyword.de

industry is "baby"

a company established
after me owning the domain for years
using keyword-keyword.de as company domain
(in germany we like the dashes )
they established an affiliate program for their shop having the dashed version only

they never contacted me about my domain
they closed the affiliate program lately
and their domain now redirects to a company offering similar stuff

that domain still gets hits
( for about 10 years or so )


they should have bought my domain..
who knows they might still be in business...


here is the latest unireg results compared with previous voodoo results

where would you park it?



unireg:

voodoo:

 

[frank-germany]

and here comes parkingcrew when they were still great

but as you see it took them nearly half a year to get decent results on the traffic
(and they where the very best at that time in parking)

 

[frank-germany]

before I forget
the best of the best

Bodis