PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[Mike]

I guess you deserve and answer about verification. It was a rubber glove exam...

Ha, just kidding. they needed business info and tax id stuff.

Rubber Glove and Sedo, that's so close to reality, it's scary! :lol:

Sedo.md anyone?

M.

 

[ekal]

FWIW - this is my strategy:

I had a great run at Parked for many months, but on March 3rd I moved 99% of my Indian domains away. I've kept a couple of names there as a bellwether. Whenever the RPC returns towards its previous level, I'll bring the rest of the domains back.

I love Parked, but from a business perspective, can't put up with an RPC thats $0.01 or $0.00.

 

[gregham2020]

What parking company did you move your Indian domain to?
thanks

 

[mrizos]

banner day for me yesterday ... $17.00 (don't laugh). It's my highest since the end of the big Arb.

All clicks went to .in and .info domains (as usual for me).

 

[rickkumar]

My final stats are again way low as compared to what they should have been based on the real revenues. Its all due to bots mess up. Funny thing is not only revenue is down but last 2 days revenue is same

No bots so far today, lets see what happens tomorrow!

 

[Name Trader]

I closed up way, way higher than normal yesterday. Strange, after having started off with three bad days in March.

This yo-yo effect makes me think that there is just some temporary "seasickness" as there always is every time that Yahoo makes changes. I just hope these are all the changes for a while..

You have March 4th closed already?

Day 3 is same as days 1 & 2 for me. Visitors and clicks about the same but RPM is thru the floor again.

 

[ekal]

What parking company did you move your Indian domain to?
thanks

Namedrive.

RPC is much less than Parked has been before, but more than Parked is now.

If anyone has a better suggestion, I'm all ears.

 

[kemjika11]

i have a name that has gotten $0.4-$0.10./click since i parked it @ parked, but today it got a $0.42 click. my RPC is actually up a bit, and since i 've relied mostly on type-ins, i think i'm in a relatively stable situation.

 

[jondoe0069]

I moved a name from Sedo to Parked and it made close to $5.00 yesterday and still showed that amount this morning- now yesterdays stats show less than $2.00, but the same number of clicks show (RPC went way down). Is it pretty normal for them to go in and take their money back from their users after it's reported every day?

 

[namegame]

I moved a name from Sedo to Parked and it made close to $5.00 yesterday and still showed that amount this morning- now yesterdays stats show less than $2.00, but the same number of clicks show (RPC went way down). Is it pretty normal for them to go in and take their money back from their users after it's reported every day?

Until the asterisk disappears from the end of the date in the Daily Summary the amounts aren't final. It usually happens the next day, but sometimes it can be a couple days.

 

[Seabass]

You have March 4th closed already?

Day 3 is same as days 1 & 2 for me. Visitors and clicks about the same but RPM is thru the floor again.

Stub - March 4th was slightly down. I'm hoping for things to settle in in the next week or so and run smoother. I'm betting things will gravitate upwards soon as they seem to always do after the Yahoo changes settle in.

 

[Broker]

Anyone know how to put a banner up on a parked page?

 

[goodkarmaco]

good question Broker,

I would like to know too.

 

[Varon]

edited..... (PUI) Comments posted under the influence. Really apologize Donny...

 

[Venture]

What percentage commission are Parked.com taking?

I can't find the answer on their website, only that they give you 10% of anyone you refer.

 

[Donny]

Varon - What are you talking about? With arbitrage going away yes we were affected, with the Ask problem we were affected as well, but us being closed down? Come on you must be kidding! We are adapting to the new environment, you have to adapt or you won't survive.

We have this rule internally that we also have two 30% dips a year. In the past some of the 30% dips have been because Google pulled all of our domains out of their index, Yahoo stopped allowing international traffic, and other changes by different companies that affected us. We have had a contract with Yahoo for over 8 years now so we have seen a lot of things happen on those years. The stopping of arbitrage is just another bump in the road. You get up and move on.

As far as us closing, I'll just say that I am interviewing 2 new programmers today. I'm still looking to hire 10 more this year. So I wouldn't consider that to be even close to closing. Actually as far as revenue goes, we are doing great.

Donny

 

[Broker]

Donny, Ive seen parked pages with horizontal banners on the bottom of their pages before added via custom content area. I have tried this it wont work. any help?

 

[Donny]

Broker - Copy and paste the banner or just use the image button.

Donny

 

[Broker]

Yeah tried that, its an affiliate banner and doesnt work.

 

[Donny]

Broker - I just put one on phpscripts.com at the bottom. I used the image icon to add it.

Donny