PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[domainer111]

Great thanks

 

[TOXX]

.ME domains

So anyone getting any parking results from .ME's already?

 

[Donny]

I've seen 0 traffic on my own .me domains. So far the Godaddy hype machine hasn't got "me" any traffic.

Donny

 

[netmeg]

My domains seem to be coming up *really* slowly at the moment...

 

[Donny]

Seems fine for me. And no big change in loads or traffic either way. Are you still having issues?

Donny

 

[netmeg]

Yep. 15 seconds to load. Tried several, including ones that haven't been optimized or edited in any way yet. Maybe it's Comcast.

 

[Donny]

Still never saw any changes in any of our monitoring tools. We actually have some monitoring setup on comcast that I didn't even know about and I don't really see any changes last night. If it's still having problems today, please send me a traceroute and I'll take a look at it.

Donny

 

[Seabass]

I don't know how to analyze the stats. But what I do know is my 2nd half of July earnings is less than 1st half of July.

The second half of July in generally the slowest time of the year for parking - especially late July. It seems traffic normalizes by mid-August and begins to pick up again in late August and starts the upward climb towards the X-Mas season.

I see this traffic pattern every year. This year however has been an anomaly of sorts, some domains have tanked since the beginning of the year; it must be the economy.

I will say that for some reason I can't put my finger on I seem to do better overall at Parked in the summer than I do at other parking co's.

 

[netmeg]

Nope, all looks okay today. We were having some strange outages and network behavior in our part of the country yesterday, so maybe it was part of that.

Umm, thought of something else.

I like how I can go into the Portfolios section, and type a word at the bottom and all the domains with that word in it pop up - like if I put in 'detroit' and all my domains that have detroit in them show up, regardless of folder, along with the impressions and clicks. But there's no total at the bottom.

So if I want a total, I can go into Reports. But I don't have the same option of selecting the radio button that says Search for Domain - if I want all the information in THAT section, I have four selections - All Domains, All Domains with Traffic, Portfolio and Domain List. So if I want to get a total for all my domains with Detroit in them, and they're not all in the same Portfolio, I have to type them all into the Domain List.

So.. can we either get totals on the Portfolio page, or else the Search for Domain radio button on the Reports page?

(I'll save the request for sub-folders and domains in multiple folders for another time, ork ork)

 

[Chef Patrick]

hey guys i just started a new domainers blog this week. my first article is with donny of parked.com, you may want to read this.

here is the headline
Parked.com treats its employees terrible!!!

check out DNKitchen.com for the full story.

 

[lebuka]

guys, I have only 5 domains and I was trying to set up my account on parked.com, but in my understanding I should have at least 10 domains to start with parked.com? here is the question: did anyone try the godaddy's cashparking that they have recently added as a feature? What is the best way to monetize these domains?

 

[Zepia]

guys, I have only 5 domains and I was trying to set up my account on parked.com, but in my understanding I should have at least 10 domains to start with parked.com? here is the question: did anyone try the godaddy's cashparking that they have recently added as a feature? What is the best way to monetize these domains?

Honestly, I would never pay to park my pages, they are making money with every click you get, why pay for a service like that when they benefit not matter what?

Plus it looks ugly and full of pop ups!

 

[Shenron]

guys, I have only 5 domains and I was trying to set up my account on parked.com, but in my understanding I should have at least 10 domains to start with parked.com? here is the question: did anyone try the godaddy's cashparking that they have recently added as a feature? What is the best way to monetize these domains?

My question is....

Would it be cheaper to hand reg 5 .com domains and try parked.com?
I'm sure it would...

 

[netmeg]

There are plenty of threads in here about GoDaddy's parking, all you have to do is search for them. Most people aren't very happy with it, and no, you shouldn't have to pay to park.

You could try acquiring a few more domains and apply for Parked - they are far and away the best in the business as far as I'm concerned.

Or you could try SEDO or Namedrive first (they don't have a minimum number of domains) and see what kind of traffic your names get, and once you do have ten domains, try Parked then.

 

[vbigdeli]

still waiting for 21st finalized stats

 

[eseller]

I signed up on parked.com today. How long does it take to get an approval ?

-eseller

 

[healingsites]

The article was interesting, but where is the interview with Donny?

Does Parked really own Modern Domainer? I thought they just bought huge ads there.

hey guys i just started a new domainers blog this week. my first interview is with donny of parked.com, you may want to read this.

here is the headline
Parked.com treats its employees terrible!!!

check out DNKitchen.com for the full story.

 

[Kenny]

The article was interesting, but where is the interview with Donny?

I was wondering the same thing.
Was the interview the meeting, or is there a Q & A piece coming?

Cy

 

[netmeg]

still waiting for 21st finalized stats

From my account:

2008-07-23

7/21 & 7/22 Stats
Final stats are delayed.

Final stats for 7/21 & 7/22 are delayed due to a delay in the reporting from one of our providers. Final numbers will be posted as soon as they are available. Parked.com

 

[vbigdeli]

Thanks netmeg

did you see new graph bar @ dashboard?