NameDrive: Enough is Enough?

[Our House]

A few weeks ago, Mark from ND offered to "optimize" my portfolio. He said that his optimization would take a few days to kick in. Being new to the domaining business, I was anxious to see the results. It's been almost a month since this optimization process, and (warning: mass understatement to follow) it hasn't been pretty.

Stats from the past week on some of my domains:

OMG, what is going on here? $0.00, $0.00, and $0.01 clicks?

Growing up, I learned that "there is no such thing as something for nothing." It appears that NameDrive's PPC amounts have proven that cliche` to be untrue.

I guess it's time to call it quits and move on to another parking company.

 

[linker]

Hi, i moved 50 domains from domain sponsor had no traffic at all,put them at name drive and 15 of them now geting better than 4000 hits a month,names like popfernandez.com at domainsponsor "o" is now brining in .25 a day at nd, just keep moving untill they get right.
nd has good service i like them and i'm still at domain sponsor,looking for a place to put my other 30 domains now.

I do agree with you about the traffic thing... I have names that get a lot more traffic when parked at ND, I think this is because they count the Asian traffic... So you have a bit of a catch 22, more traffic but lower CPC...

 

[yoshine]

ya watch out for 1and1!!!! i noticed sometimes they switch out your adsence account with their own

 

[dan_Vt]

ya watch out for 1and1!!!! i noticed sometimes they switch out your adsence account with their own

Are you kidding? That's despicable. Try to get some proof of that, that's clearly unethical, and frankly, should get them in legal trouble.

 

[harkster]

Are you kidding? That's despicable. Try to get some proof of that, that's clearly unethical, and frankly, should get them in legal trouble.

I think if you read closely at 1plus it is clearly stated that they insert their ads every 10th display. Else how do they pay the bills.
They get it for free and still bitch about getting cheated.

 

[johnny6]

It's too bad the accounting on parking companies isn't public domain..... I'm a cynic by nature when it comes to business, and I've generally found that domainers and domain related companies and products are less than trustworthy perhaps more frequently than they should be...so I'd love to see evidence of splits backed up by physical evidence.

Who says I'm getting a 60% split somewhere? Or a 50% split? Only one party - the company providing a parking service. And when you see 2 cent clicks for $3-$4 keywords, I don't particularly care what your feed arrangement or split is with google -that SIMPLY DOES NOT ADD UP. It seems to me it IS that simple.

 

[tipsfromthetop]

Who says I'm getting a 60% split somewhere? Or a 50% split? Only one party - the company providing a parking service. And when you see 2 cent clicks for $3-$4 keywords, I don't particularly care what your feed arrangement or split is with google -that SIMPLY DOES NOT ADD UP. It seems to me it IS that simple.

Very well said.. It does not add up but i guess we put up with because most parking programs are free even though its technically not free we are doing them a service they get paid because of our names.. they wouldnt be in business otherwise so in a sense we are doing them a favor so we shouldnt really get shafted.