PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[Donny]

Domain Round Table http://www.domainroundtable.com/ is put on by Jay from Domain Tools.

Donny

 

[Seabass]

Traffic is really low today at Parked. CTR, RPC is fine, just low traffic.

Just me?

 

[johname]

Traffic is really low today at Parked. CTR, RPC is fine, just low traffic.

Just me?

Yes low for me too, I figure its the NCCA basketball tournament, Stanford Lost I hear

 

[Seabass]

My account just shot up a lot but just checked and it was not a Parked update but a crazy bot.

It looks like you may be correct, although I don't see the drop at other parking companies for today.

 

[reggiev]

Does anyone show any stats for today (29th) even the date isnt showing up seems frooze on the 28th

 

[Donny]

Stats for 3/29/2008 are currently delayed.

Donny

 

[reggiev]

thanks

 

[PowerUp]

Does anyone show any stats for today (29th) even the date isnt showing up seems frooze on the 28th

yes, but my $$ for 28th keeps increasing... even now. I'm wondering if the increase is supposed to be for 29th.

 

[Seabass]

"Earth Hour" is going to cut into earnings tonight. Ouch.

 

[domianinvestor]

is parked going to offer better template for the .asia domains?

 

[Donny]

Why would we offer something special for .asia domains? Do they have dumb rules like .mobi that I don't know about?

"Earth Hour" won't affect anybody tonight. But the "Kid's Choice Awards" on Nick will. Sorry I've been rewiring my home theater cluster all day.

Donny

 

[Varon]

.asia seems like a complete flop idea. Not worth it.

 

[PowerUp]

Does Parked have any special guidelines when choosing custom pictures for adult names? I'm thinking of downloading some pics from porn sites and put some blur screens over their private parts and uploading them to Parked.

 

[johname]

Does Parked have any special guidelines when choosing custom pictures for adult names? I'm thinking of downloading some pics from porn sites and put some blur screens over their private parts and uploading them to Parked.

I guess when you go to those porn sites you will see that those pictures are copyrighted.

 

[Dr. Anthony]

has anyone had any problems with stats?
At sedo.. I used to get about 300 uniques on any saturday.
yesterday, with parked... 9.
yes.. 9 uniques.

Looks like they didnt give me ANY revenue from when their 'stats were down'
anyone notice this?

 

[sihar07]

has anyone had any problems with stats?
At sedo.. I used to get about 300 uniques on any saturday.
yesterday, with parked... 9.
yes.. 9 uniques.

Looks like they didnt give me ANY revenue from when their 'stats were down'
anyone notice this?

i believe the 300 traffic at sedo most are from bots (i.e: search engine bots). At parked, bot traffics are not counted. i was a member at sedo too back in 07.. so i know..

 

[Dr. Anthony]

i believe the 300 traffic at sedo most are from bots (i.e: search engine bots). At parked, bot traffics are not counted. i was a member at sedo too back in 07.. so i know..

no, i have a very high type in referr (78%)

 

[Sleepys]

has anyone had any problems with stats?
At sedo.. I used to get about 300 uniques on any saturday.
yesterday, with parked... 9.
yes.. 9 uniques.

Looks like they didnt give me ANY revenue from when their 'stats were down'
anyone notice this?

There are some stats that won't show up other than bot traffic. I know that Parked does not show any RSS traffic at all. It shows up as 0.

Since you mention that it is type in traffic, I did just notice today that I have something similar going on in some of my names. I registered three names at the beginning of November. I moved one to Parked and the other two to Sedo. The one at Parked significantly outperformed the other two. They got similar visits, but more clicks at Parked. I moved the other two over to Parked in the beginning of January. I actually just tried to re-add the 2 names, because Parked is showing 0 visits for the past 30 days and I thought maybe they did not add properly in my account (they did). One of the names has had 4 visits and 5 clicks since I added it (only seems to show visits on days it gets clicks), the other has had 0 visits. Both of these names did about 15-30 uniques a month at Sedo (2 clicks each), pure type-in. Obviously my CTR/RPM at Parked is high on the name that is only showing visits on days it gets clicks (earnings are the same as at Sedopro), the other one has no stats (It also had 2 clicks at Sedo). It makes me suspicious of my CTR/RPM numbers when I know that these names had more visitors than is reported. I don't think I have ever seen a name get more visitors at Parked than at Sedo or Namedrive, ever. I even once had a name that had more clicks at Sedo than it had visitors at Parked, which with the whole multiple click thing should be impossible.

That all being said, I would like to stress that I have many names that outperform at Parked on strictly an earnings basis (not factoring CTR/RPM for anything). I keep these at Parked and they will probably stay there forever. I also love Parked support. So, before any of you think I am trying to bash Parked, let me say that I am just reporting things I have noticed in my account.

 

[Donny]

Dr. Anthony - We only count unique visitors. That could also be your problem. One other thing is if you just moved the domain from Sedo, it takes about 2 weeks before their nameservers completely stop resolving your domain. You can always send me the domain and I can look at it.

Sleepys - We don't show any 404 traffic currently. That could be the issue.

Donny

 

[Sleepys]

Donny - PM Sent :D

My post was meant to imply that I feel anything is up at Parked, just that I feel like I cannot trust the unique stats at parking companies, because they are all so different. I also tend to feel like I can't I rely on RPM/CTR, so I just use earnings, plain and simple. Sometimes Parked outperforms, sometimes other places do. It would be nice to have a better grasp of exact unique numbers, but when even fresh regged names show such a discrepency in uniques, we have to just rely on who is making us the most money on each particular name.

 

[pdga2007]

I have about a dozen names at Parked.com. One of them has 1-click lander and that page makes about $15 a month. I love it!

 

[Dr. Anthony]

Donny: the clicks also drastically dropped. I average about $20 comission on a weekend at sedo.. at sedo, I made $176 until March 26 (when i moved it to parked) I let it sit at parked for a few days.. I put in a request to have it moved back to sedo last night after the results.

 

[kemjika11]

Donny: the clicks also drastically dropped. I average about $20 comission on a weekend at sedo.. at sedo, I made $176 until March 26 (when i moved it to parked) I let it sit at parked for a few days.. I put in a request to have it moved back to sedo last night after the results.

you know there are multiple reasons why domains perform differently at different parking providers, so you might have to do more research into EXACTLY what is causing your clicks to drop from 1 provider to another.

 

[Dr. Anthony]

you know there are multiple reasons why domains perform differently at different parking providers, so you might have to do more research into EXACTLY what is causing your clicks to drop from 1 provider to another.

I've noticed the traffic drastically dropped.
i'm sure theres a direct corelation

 

[Broker]

I've made 2 cents in the last week. Very depressing whatever is going on with all this parking stuff. This is not just parked either I'm told. Parking and my adsense seems to be absolutley dead anymore.