PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[Donny]

Let me see how many I can answer at one time.

I talked to TheBaldOne about the .net domains that are getting a bunch of hits, it seems that our friends at Amazon are running some type of bot service out of South Africa, but I just blocked all of them.

We have looked into adding a .mobi compliant template, and it was actually pretty close about 3 weeks ago, but then something else came up and now it's down the list again. I think if there were more traffic on .mobi domains this would have been finished a long time ago.

Domain Conflicts are something that we all must deal with until my buddy Terrence gets out new conflict manager completed. Today what happens is if I own phpscripts.com and then sell it to netmeg, I do not remove the domain from my account and netmeg adds the domain to their account, what happens is we now have a conflict, two people claim they own the same domain. We attempt to verify who owns the domain and put the domain in the correct account. So if you ever get an conflict message I recommend that you harass your account manager as often as possible to get the domain in your account as fast as possible. Unless I'm your account manager. We are hoping to have a majority of this automated in the next week or so.

Our non-US markets are doing very well, actually much better than I have expected in many cases.

If I missed anything, just let me know.

Donny

 

[Frikkle]

Yeah, the Parked.com staff is great.

They'll help you our with resolving pretty much anything.

-Frikkle

 

[evilopinions]

Donny,

Can you please have a look at the issue of domain showing banned In Dubai...I have attached a pic..

Also Parked.com homepage shows that we support IDN...I think that needs a fixing...

Also can we link to a parked page from a parked page ?

 

[netmeg]

(hey, if I had the phpscripts domain, I'd develop that sucker - I loves the PHP!!)

ork ork

 

[jeffoverman]

Donny

How was cruise? Hope you had a good time and relaxed from the domain business for a week

That's interesting on mobi format factor. I own a lot of mobi names as a long term investment and would be great for it be mobi formated. Mobi I believe is going take off. Its just early and phase one or first inning.

I had gotten some info back from my rep and that was nice and exchanged couple emails back and forth. Seems my quality score is good so I can stop the worrying on this for time being. A lot out of my control, I can't control a person to buy something on one of my sites or clicks or what's good traffic or bad traffic. That's a huge worry for me. Things you can't control in this business. Sure I have all the features that parked has and hours spent formatting things, colors and customization which I love but I can't control things out of my hands. That worries me.

Names that don't have traffic, its ok to keep under your account. It won't impact the score or your account I been told. So I will just keep my names at parked and that gives me time to fix things, tags, keywords and etc. Always revisions to do and trial and errors I am concluding.

Had my first day at parked today! Mainly off one name today and can't wait to see final numbers. 9 clicks on one name and a few other names. Excited on this and this name has done most of my revenue this week alone. Now I need to have 20 names like this and then 50 names and more trial and error stuff with keywords

A comment above, I thought you put as many tag words in there as possible. Not to long, not to short?? Donny can you confirm on this for me please. If I have 12 key words in as tags, that's not good?

I read one members comment from bodis to here and keep one name at bodis. You will be dropped I am sure. What a joke bodis was. Surly made me look bad trying support him. I am expecting more names will flood parked from bodis. Hope the honest owners, not the Scammers that did a job at bodis and hurt all of us over there. Glad I only had 30 names with them. Parked has a lot of my names.

Good fortunes everyone!

 

[Donny]

netmeg - PHPScripts.com was developed at one time, it was my personal blog about how the PHP and MySQL worlds sucked and how they could be so much better. It was great for about a year or so and then I went on vacation and I never blogged again.

evilopinions - Dubai isn't banned from our system, just a particular ip address. If you have the ip address I can look to see what the problem is and maybe unblock that ip. We do support IDN's and have about 50 IDN's in our system today, unfortunately we just can't add any additional ones right now. Linking via parked pages to another parked page that you own, I don't really have a problem with it as long as it's only to the domain name itself.

JeffOverman - I wish I could say that I had a great time on my cruise, it was fun, but my vacation was coming back to work. We had 25 people on the cruise with us so there was so much going on. I hope your investment in .mobi turns out to be better than my opinion of .mobi. I just have this feeling that one day soon the bubble will burst and people will be really disappointed. Then again I have been wrong once before.

The TQ score is very important, but the most important thing is to give people what they are looking for. As long as you do that, I personally wouldn't worry. Good targetted traffic is the most important thing you can have.

Domains that don't have traffic do not affect your score, it's all based on the number of clicks. So even if you have a domain that gets 10,000 hits a day and 0 clicks, it won't affect your score at all.

I'm assuming on tag words you are talking about Meta Tags. You can put as many as you want or as many as the form allows.

I wish I still had a Bodis account they terminated my account, that sucks!

Donny

 

[netmeg]

Yea, they terminated me too, but I moved 'em over to Parked. Which reminds me, Donny, I PM'd you about a problem I'm seeing on some of the domains I moved over - the links in the Related Bar don't look right in Firefox, they're flush up against the separator bar.

(I still love what I can do with PHP and MySQL - sure, they're not perfect, but what is?)

 

[PowerUp]

Can anyone help me on this issue?

When I type in widget,com in my URL bar, it brings me to http://meanwhile.com/?domain=widget,com

Is there a way to make it show only http://widget,com or http://www.widget,com?

Thank you.

Hi Donny,
Can you enlighten me on this?

 

[Donny]

I responded to your PM, sorry about that.

It's amazing what you really can do with PHP and MySQL now. I remember a few years ago the entire MySQL team was at our office in New Orleans using it for their developer training and we were showing Monty and David the co-developers of MySQL what we were doing with it and how we were working around not having transactions. It was funny seeing them trying to wrap their heads around how we actually used and hacked their software. But now everybody uses PHP and MySQL, Yahoo and Google both do now. Yahoo hired Rasmus and Google is about to add a bunch of new code that they use internally, so everything is hopefully going to get even better.

Just a lesson for today, MySQL is pronounced "My SQL", not "My Seequil". "My" is the name of Monty's daughter. So one more time, "My S-Q-L".

Donny

 

[gubera]

Yeah... Too bad about Bodis. I still have my account but now have moved out the last domain I had there. (There is a big difference between a $.09 and a $.60 click!)

I will probably move some of my names around a little bit to see if they perform better with different parking companies, but most of them will stay with Parked.

 

[NPKJB]

Just a lesson for today, MySQL is pronounced "My SQL", not "My Seequil". "My" is the name of Monty's daughter. So one more time, "My S-Q-L".

Donny

Great lesson Donny!! I was one of the misinformed who sometimes called it "My Seequil" and other times "My" SQL".

See.... ya learn something new everyday! :hehe:

 

[Donny]

Powerup - You get to our secondary provider, Ask based on which country you are located in. In your case you are not in one of the countries that Yahoo supports this means your domains for you will go to pages specific to your country.

I would see them as widget.com and not on the meanwhile.com domain.

Donny

 

[netmeg]

I knew that. Reminds me of people who ask me if I pronounce it "lie-nux" or "lin-nux" - I say "Neither - we only use FreeBSD!" ork ork ork.

 

[PowerUp]

Powerup - You get to our secondary provider, Ask based on which country you are located in. In your case you are not in one of the countries that Yahoo supports this means your domains for you will go to pages specific to your country.

I would see them as widget.com and not on the meanwhile.com domain.

Donny

Well, if my country is not supported, then why do I sometimes see widget,com and other times see meanwhile.com?

 

[Donny]

Powerup - It all depends on if Yahoo thinks your ip is in a different country or not. We leave it up to them. I know where you are located, but that doesn't always mean they are 100% sure, when they don't know they accept your traffic.

Donny

 

[PowerUp]

Hi Donny,

May I know if Parked allow PPC traffic from content websites?

Does Parked allow promotion of PPC campaign on the Results page and not the Landing page?

 

[harkster]

I wish I still had a Bodis account they terminated my account, that sucks!

Donny

Yep, me too. Hate having one less option. Some of the names moved to Parked performing better and some worse. As they say no one service is best for all names.

I really love the Parked custom content ability and having fun with it. Biggest problem right now is a Geo name which can't get good links. A city, St. Joseph and when I use that as a keyword all I get is religion/catholic links.

 

[Donny]

harkster - Shoot your account manager the domain and the city, maybe their is something they can do.

Powerup - I'm not answering anymore arbitrage questions via the boards, if you have a question just PM or email me.

Donny

 

[harkster]

Donny, Any way to add a news feed to my lander using something like Simplepie or RSS Fetch or whatever? Yeah, gonna drop rep a note on St. Joe; just haven't gotten to it yet.

 

[jeffoverman]

Donny thanks for your thoughts... 25 people on cruise-If I had to keep up with that I would at the pool every day chain smoking and drinking non stop lol.

As far as mobi goes-its a portion of my portfolio. I hedge on things-I have a lot of .tv for the future, a lot of mobi, some .com, .net stuff, foreign stuff like .cn, .de and my first .in casino. I am always browsing on my mobi at my second dead end job at work and checking my parked stats and namepros.mobi. I buy things on mobi. I just think its just getting started and wait for the do no evil company to really open things up. As far as bubble topic-only time will tell. I dont know. As Rick said a few days back-follow the money. If you take a look at what Japan is up to there mobi phones and browsing-I think the usa market could do this. Admob is doing very well as well. My worry is the software factor and how that could cause a strain for mobi users. Type in flowers.com on your blackberry and it formats into mobi friendly pages. There are risks to things as you know. We all take risks. I miss the dot com boom. I have enough future names and betting on 5 years growth curve and social graph. Next year I want to buy a solid type in .com name with some traffic.

Enough on Mobi........

Happy Domaining everyone! Today seems slow and hardly any views at my end. I have one name doing well and was hopping wake up and see some more clicks lol or my other names. Time to work on my names today.

Cheers,

J

stats just updated from yesterday...

i didnt have a record-they went down a tiny bit from estimate....more work and tweaking lol..

how often does every change there key words around-donny if you can give some light into this that would help me out....i notice varon weeks ago talked about this but curious what everyone is doing and finding successes......

need to cut my moms yard before it gets more cold up in michigan. why am i in this dump state lol.....

cheers,

j

 

[harkster]

Embeding Google video

Appears to be a problem. No problem with youtube but want to use a G and won't accept - vid not available on yt

 

[panterrasbox]

Hi. I am another Bodis refugee. My names are doing much better at TrafficClub. But does anyone know how Parked ranks against TrafficClub?

 

[msingley]

Hi. I am another Bodis refugee. My names are doing much better at TrafficClub. But does anyone know how Parked ranks against TrafficClub?

I keep hearing things about Bodis. What exactly has happened? Did they go under?

I, for one, think Parked is the absolute best!

 

[evilopinions]

Hi. I am another Bodis refugee. My names are doing much better at TrafficClub. But does anyone know how Parked ranks against TrafficClub?

Ranking is not so important..parked.com pays for multiple clicks...u might want to consider that...

 

[johname]

Ranking is not so important..parked.com pays for multiple clicks...u might want to consider that...

Parked.com paying multiple clicks does make a difference!