PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[netmeg]

Thanks. Been following the full lunar eclipse here in Madeira. Is the same hapening in the US/Canada?

Could see it beautifully here; a great big red ball. I was planning on taking pictures, but at 10PM, it was 3° F and I went out to look and came right back in to watch Law & Order. Too cold for a moondance!

 

[GILSAN]

Could see it beautifully here; a great big red ball. I was planning on taking pictures, but at 10PM, it was 3° F and I went out to look and came right back in to watch Law & Order. Too cold for a moondance!

Same here. It was a full eclipse at about 4AM, temperature about 55-60º F, not a cloud in the sky, in fact it was picture perfect. I didn't take pictures this time because I took some the last time we had a full eclipse about 3-4 years ago, but I should have!

GIL

 

[vbigdeli]

Welcome to weather.com thread :hehe: :sold:

 

[GILSAN]

Welcome to weather.com thread :hehe: :sold:

Yea, looks like arbitrage got eclipsed by the weather.

GIL

 

[Seabass]

I'm still closing up. Higher than normal too.

I'm assuming it's b/c of more competition for less clicks driving the price up since arb. was canceled ; and, maybe a better quality of clicks are left now that the dust has settled and now these clicks are getting noticed.

Anyone else seeing the surge at Parked ?

 

[packrat]

I'm still closing up. Higher than normal too.

I'm assuming it's b/c of more competition for less clicks driving the price up since arb. was canceled ; and, maybe a better quality of clicks are left now that the dust has settled and now these clicks are getting noticed.

Anyone else seeing the surge at Parked ?

No - not closing up! RPC has tanked totally.
I noticed today that my visitors are way down so I started checking my
sites - the are loading *very* slow. The rest of the net is fine for me.
I'm thinking people aren't waiting around for the page to come up.

 

[mrizos]

2 clicks for 1.37 today and finished up all week :hi:

 

[Mike]

I'm below $2/day right now and if i dare to exceed that value, i get pushed right back to $2 (+/-) after finalization.
Whatever is going on here better be fixed quickly. If parked.com has gotten singled out, i'd like to know about it.
If parked.com is not planning on delivering better concepts for site building, i also want to know about it. As SDX already indicated, something needs to happen, and it better be happening fast.
I like Donny and his outstanding ability to provide customer service, he has practically single handedly elevated Parked.com to another level. Unfortunately, i like my revenue just a tad bit more. If moving on is the only option, whether that be to a (not singled out) provider or site building, then so be it.
Right now it feels like i'm wasting a lot of time for the sole purpose of showing loyalty.

M.

 

[afarmer86]

Maybe Meg or someone else can help with this. I was doing arb with google and msn. I paused them when we had to. On my best performing site I set up an affliate site though commission junction with a why park account I had.

I wrote some unique articles for the site and put adsense on it with no problem. Yes they are showing up on my why park site, but did not until I took off most of the canned articles and put my own up.

I now have tried to turn everything back on to test with adwords and msn. Adwords is now telling me I have to pay $10 a click to get on search and nothing is showing up on content even though I am paying a decent amount.

Of course google has not returned a message from several days ago and neither has MSN (which is also not working for me).

Anyone have any suggestions for me?

 

[mrizos]

Maybe Meg or someone else can help with this. I was doing arb with google and msn. I paused them when we had to. On my best performing site I set up an affliate site though commission junction with a why park account I had.

I wrote some unique articles for the site and put adsense on it with no problem. Yes they are showing up on my why park site, but did not until I took off most of the canned articles and put my own up.

I now have tried to turn everything back on to test with adwords and msn. Adwords is now telling me I have to pay $10 a click to get on search and nothing is showing up on content even though I am paying a decent amount.

Of course google has not returned a message from several days ago and neither has MSN (which is also not working for me).

Anyone have any suggestions for me?

Delete the campaign and use a new url...just my suggestion, but Netmeg knows best. Oh...and don't sent any of this to a domain on parked.com

 

[netmeg]

Maybe Meg or someone else can help with this. I was doing arb with google and msn. I paused them when we had to. On my best performing site I set up an affliate site though commission junction with a why park account I had.

I wrote some unique articles for the site and put adsense on it with no problem. Yes they are showing up on my why park site, but did not until I took off most of the canned articles and put my own up.

I now have tried to turn everything back on to test with adwords and msn. Adwords is now telling me I have to pay $10 a click to get on search and nothing is showing up on content even though I am paying a decent amount.

Of course google has not returned a message from several days ago and neither has MSN (which is also not working for me).

Anyone have any suggestions for me?

Yep, but this is the parked thread - you should start another one.

 

[packrat]

I'm below $2/day right now and if i dare to exceed that value, i get pushed right back to $2 (+/-) after finalization.
Whatever is going on here better be fixed quickly. If parked.com has gotten singled out, i'd like to know about it.
If parked.com is not planning on delivering better concepts for site building, i also want to know about it. As SDX already indicated, something needs to happen, and it better be happening fast.
I like Donny and his outstanding ability to provide customer service, he has practically single handedly elevated Parked.com to another level. Unfortunately, i like my revenue just a tad bit more. If moving on is the only option, whether that be to a (not singled out) provider or site building, then so be it.
Right now it feels like i'm wasting a lot of time for the sole purpose of showing loyalty.

M.

I agree. And...just think how bad it will be if our TQS goes down :hehe:

 

[goodkarmaco]

I noticed Parked clicks going way down three months ago and it has stayed that way.

I made many mentions in this post the reason was more than lkely do to arbitrage going on in a massive way.

Every parking has a few members who do it under the radar and when caught they get the boot. That was not the case in Parked and in my opinion it grew to such a level it was not acceptable to Ask.

So wishes do not make money.

In my opinion Parked chould have keep the caliber of domainers high.

Every experienced domainer knows parking is work and inexperienced domainers care less and want the quick answer, result, too many bad apples rotted the fruit in the basket.

Is it newbies fault or should management been on top of this? Cause and effect folks.

This sums it all up, "in the fightclub, don't talk about the fight club", lol.

 

[Varon]

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[Mike]

Let's step on the brakes again, gents. Professionalism please

I dislike the situation every bit as much as most of us, i'm every bit as put off by some people who stroll along with "Ha, i told you so" and are now demonstrating their incredible amount of knowledge. As we all know, it's really simple to kick someone in the face when they're already down...
Fact of the matter remains, we're caught up in a very uncomfortable situation that hardly anyone sees a possible way out with the opportunities give at present.
Developing all my domains is completely out of the question, parking has been made almost impossible, at least through parked.com. If nothing is planned to rectify the current problems, the solution is relatively clear to me....
What i'm waiting for? Simple. I believe that Donny may have one more ace up his sleeve and i'm willing to wait for him to come back from TRAFFIC to hand us the news, developments and changes that may come our way.

M.

 

[Seabass]

You mean that without arbitrage that most of you guys are only making less than $10 a day? I would have thought the domainers here at this Parked thread were at least making $50 a day or more - even without the arb.

I understand some folks do make small amounts, but it just seems like most here are totally busted without arbitrage. Don't ya'll have at least some expired link or generic domain traffic to tide you over?

Parked is pretty good at monetization in total, so they are hard to beat by going elsewhere.

I think lead-generation models may be the next step for parking companies as an option in addition to regular parking. I would hope something like this comes along soon, or why not even display advertisments paying out CPM rates on parked pages?

.

 

[ArtfulWebSites]

Disturbing Trend on Parked.com

Well, ever since arb was ended on parked, I have seen a very consistent and disturbing trend. I was doing arb on Parked very successfully, and stopped on the night of 2/13 (about 12 hours ahead of the deadline). I have 49 domains at Parked.com, of which only 22 were in arb.

Every day since I stopped doing arb on Parked, I have noticed the following patterns:

- Total visitors for 49 domains in the xx range
- Total clicks for 49 domains in the x range at EOD then 0 at finalization
- Total revenue for 49 domains in the $.xx range at EOD, then $.00 at finalization

So, my traffic went from x,xxx to xx every day, and revenues have totally disappeared! PLUS, it does not seem to matter what the CTR or RPC are showing during the day or at EOD - they will be reduced to ZERO at finalization.

Has any one else had a similar experience?

Donny, any suggestions on what I can do to resurrect my portfolio at Parked.com?

 

[kemjika11]

From the feedback i'm getting from all your comments, i have 2 things to say about Parked and parking domains with them:

1. The domain revenue pie might be getting shared by alot of domain names, and alot of low quality names. Too many names will dilute advertising revenue(for domainers) and thats probably why so many RPCs are going down

2. Its back to quality domain names with average/decent natural traffic. I would advise NP members to buckle up again, and start purchasing/keeping more quality names. Crappy names are contributing to alot of things, including lack of sales, so it will help us all to keep the quality of our names at the highest we possibly can. I have some crappy names too, but i'm not going to increase their number.

 

[TOXX]

Let's step on the brakes again, gents. Professionalism please

I dislike the situation every bit as much as most of us, i'm every bit as put off by some people who stroll along with "Ha, i told you so" and are now demonstrating their incredible amount of knowledge. As we all know, it's really simple to kick someone in the face when they're already down...
Fact of the matter remains, we're caught up in a very uncomfortable situation that hardly anyone sees a possible way out with the opportunities give at present.
Developing all my domains is completely out of the question, parking has been made almost impossible, at least through parked.com. If nothing is planned to rectify the current problems, the solution is relatively clear to me....
What i'm waiting for? Simple. I believe that Donny may have one more ace up his sleeve and i'm willing to wait for him to come back from TRAFFIC to hand us the news, developments and changes that may come our way.

M.

YES! Let's all be patient PLEASE!

 

[Mike]

I have just discovered the true meaning of irony...

My traffic went from 85% CTR to below 10% CTR, the traffic number itself practically disappeared into a black hole...

BUT​

my Q Score went from a 9 back to a 10! :lol:
This is almost funny. Lesser traffic, ridiculous CTR but a fully blown 10 on the Q scale! Someone needs to get their act together, because the traffic in comparison to the CTR should qualify me for a -3 on the Qscale.

M.