PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[tonyfloyd]

from my acct manager...."The only time you will see the meanwhile.com redirect is when Yahoo isn't accepting the traffic to the domain. The meanwhile.com redirect means the traffic is getting sent to our secondary provider. If you don't want to go to the meanwhile feed, you can enter an "Alternate Traffic Destination" for your domains on an individual basis through the domain's "edit" page, or for all of your domains by entering the URL in the "Alternate Traffic Destination" section of the "My Account Information" page. "......

so now what??...why was Yahoo accepting the traffic 2 months ago...and now not accepting??...traffic is the same...US and Canada

 

[Mobi Cheap]

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so now what??...why was Yahoo accepting the traffic 2 months ago...and now not accepting??...traffic is the same...US and Canada

Could be that their automatic system for detecting domains that are potentially similar to a trademark or otherwise controversial has had new rules or data fed in.

If the domain is nothing of the kind, then another email to your account manager with a request to submit it for manual review by Yahoo would be one option.

 

[tonyfloyd]

i think that's the case....it might be a TM issue....if i move this name to another Yahoo feed parking provider...what happens?

 

[netmeg]

Ok, this is weird. I got 5 visits (one each) today on domains that I moved to another parking company a couple weeks ago. I double checked, and then triple checked - the nameservers are NOT pointing to Parked, and the other company's pages come up. No clicks, just visits - but how did that happen? Really old cache?

 

[packrat]

Any one else having trouble logging into Parked? Just times out for
me. Pings OK though. Don't tell me I need a Canadian passport now!

 

[notlikeyou]

Ok, this is weird. I got 5 visits (one each) today on domains that I moved to another parking company a couple weeks ago. I double checked, and then triple checked - the nameservers are NOT pointing to Parked, and the other company's pages come up. No clicks, just visits - but how did that happen? Really old cache?

I've had this happen with parked domains in the past, occasionally I still will see a visit or two at parking company A when the domains have been moved to parking company B for months.

 

[Mobi Cheap]

i think that's the case....it might be a TM issue....if i move this name to another Yahoo feed parking provider...what happens?

Probably not worth it, but you can try changing both providers and feeds of course. If I were you I would consider development of the domain in a safe niche where it's not likely to be perceived as 'confusingly similar' to the TM'ed term.

Before doing that however you may want to look at the Parked traffic analysis for the last five days and see what people are looking for when they come to the parked domain (assuming you do have that data when it's already gone to meanwhile).

It may be that most visitors are not actually looking for anything related to the trademark. You never know, and with many other parking providers you may never know

 

[GILSAN]

Ok, this is weird. I got 5 visits (one each) today on domains that I moved to another parking company a couple weeks ago. I double checked, and then triple checked - the nameservers are NOT pointing to Parked, and the other company's pages come up. No clicks, just visits - but how did that happen? Really old cache?

Had the same happen to me at Namedrive some months back. I had moved several domains from ND to Bodis and many weeks later I noticed that they had not been deleted from Namedrive, but were showing the same amount of visits that were showing at Bodis.

GIL

 

[Dotmainer]

removed (going to report that to support)
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[GILSAN]

Has there been any changes in TQ scores today?

GIL

 

[healingsites]

I just posted an article about arbitrage at Domain Name Wire, featuring Parked, of course. It's at:

http://domainnamewire.com/2008/02/07/the-question-of-domain-parking-arbitrage/

Andrew lets me guest post there from time-to-time (Thanks, Andrew)

He commented that Parked does not allow arbitrage from 2nd tier search engines . I was unaware of this when I wrote the post. I am not personally doing arbitrage but I've had a bunch of discussions about it with people.

Any comments on the post? Is paid search from 2nd tier search engines forbidden?

Leonard

 

[Donny]

If anybody's account manager is Christian Higgins, he is currently on Who Wants to be a Millionaire and will also be on it again tomorrow night.

Donny

 

[GILSAN]

If anybody's account manager is Christian Higgins, he is currently on Who Wants to be a Millionaire and will also be on it again tomorrow night.

Donny

One of my favourite programs. It returned last week here in Portugal after about 2 years in hybernation.

GIL

 

[panterrasbox]

Google image search. Main page image must be 385x261 px and no larger
than 60 KB. Look for an image with a size ratio of close to 1.50 and resize
it.

Second page image, 250x251, 60 KB, ratio .99

A fairly full featured freeware image editor that I like is Irfanview:
http://irfanview.com/

I use this editor as well.

If anybody's account manager is Christian Higgins, he is currently on Who Wants to be a Millionaire and will also be on it again tomorrow night.

Donny

Very cool; that's my guy!

 

[johname]

If anybody's account manager is Christian Higgins, he is currently on Who Wants to be a Millionaire and will also be on it again tomorrow night.

Donny

Donny are you Christian phone a friend? lol

 

[Donny]

Nope, I wasn't a phone a friend. The rest of the show is on tomorrow night. He still hasn't told us how much he made, but I'm betting it's over $100k.

Donny

 

[mrizos]

If anybody's account manager is Christian Higgins, he is currently on Who Wants to be a Millionaire and will also be on it again tomorrow night.

Donny

Ha, how funny! He's my AM. Very nice guy BTW. Good luck to him!

 

[HiSoC8Y]

How to use the RSS reports? in the FAQ, it says we can monitor earnings via RSS without loggin in. I think this is useful, i can monitor it via my blackberry...

Anyone? no one replied to this....i just find it a very useful thing.

 

[Donny]

HiSoC8Y - I personally don't use the RSS, but it does work fine. I personally use the XML feed as it has a section which tells you when the stats are finalized or not.

Donny

 

[HiSoC8Y]

HiSoC8Y - I personally don't use the RSS, but it does work fine. I personally use the XML feed as it has a section which tells you when the stats are finalized or not.

Donny

Thats great i think. but how to use it? Any guide/faq for it?