PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[johname]

Can anyone get in yet ?

i been logging in all day, no problem

 

[Fragger]

Nope.

Try logging in through this page.

https://secure.parked.com/account/?login=yes

 

[packrat]

No problem here in Eastern Canada - just going to parked.com

 

[Seabass]

Try logging in through this page.

https://secure.parked.com/account/?login=yes

Thanks, I still can't log in - even with that link.

I can get to the welcome page at Parked.com, but it times out after that.
.

 

[-TV-]

Thanks, I still can't log in - even with that link.

I can get to the welcome page at Parked.com, but it times out after that.
.

can't login here too , parked must have something going on

Tv

 

[Kenny]

Odd, no problems for me here in Cali at all.

 

[Seabass]

I was able to log in for the last hour or two but now I can't again.

 

[TOXX]

Odd, no problems for me here in Cali at all.

Yes, no prob logging in here in Cali! :tu:

 

[firefly]

Fine down under

 

[gregham2020]

Donny still can not log in from Ont canada

 

[thetruman]

no problems here in Italy :wave:

 

[Donny]

For those of you having problems, what are you seeing? A parked page? Or something else?

Donny

 

[Seabass]

I can log in fine now.

Before I would go to the welcome page, hit the log in button and wait a minute or so for it to time out to a page served up by my Firefox browser saying the page is not responding.

 

[gregham2020]

IE: can get to parked.com and do see parking pages. but when you try and log into the parking panel. Times out "The Page cannot be displayed"

Firefox: same thing error a bit different "The connection has timed out













The server at secure.parked.com is taking too long to respond.








* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.

* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.

* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

 

[packrat]

OK, I don't see how this might be affecting so many people but...the last time I had exactly the same problem with timing out when trying to login I cleared my browser
cache (in IE it's temporary internet files). After that I could log in no problem.

 

[kemjika11]

Yes, I found the "Search Portal" template (my own request to Donny a long time ago ) to work really well for some unspecified domains.

sorry, to bring this up again, but i just want to verify something here. Am i correct to assume that you can use the "search Portal" properly just by searching for that template and saving? I want to use it on a few of my names, and thats what i think i can do now. i tried removing the keywords, but that refused to dissapear, so i just want to know what i need to do to let people search(for improving optimization later). Thanks

 

[johname]

sorry, to bring this up again, but i just want to verify something here. Am i correct to assume that you can use the "search Portal" properly just by searching for that template and saving? I want to use it on a few of my names, and thats what i think i can do now. i tried removing the keywords, but that refused to dissapear, so i just want to know what i need to do to let people search(for improving optimization later). Thanks

Just select Template:Search Portal

and save

 

[netmeg]

So what if any affect is all this Google/Yahoo advertising mess going to have on us at Parked? Anything?

 

[Donny]

Netmeg - From what I can tell, the deal won't do much. I think it was a bad deal for Yahoo IMHO. Let me explain why I think it's a bad deal and where in a few cases it will help.

What is the biggest problems Yahoo has from a parking perspective? They have a limited number of countries they support. I've talked to them about this many times and Yahoo has this idea of what they should and shouldn't support. But at the end of the day Google supports basically every country in the world, Yahoo supports about 50. To me a perfect solution would have been for Yahoo to basically backfill all countries so if Yahoo didn't have support in China they would query Google and show those results. Google would get a lot more traffic, Yahoo would know what countries they need to focus on, we would only have to deal with one company, and our partners would have the best of both worlds a Yahoo and Google feed. If Yahoo did something like this their stock would be over $40 today, not at $23.

Instead we get a Google backfill only on US and CA traffic. The stock goes down and will probably continue to go down.

Also now the FCC will be looking into what Google and Yahoo will be doing together. If they would have just skipped the US and cut a deal with all of the other countries they wouldn't have any FCC hearings.

Oh well, another screw up by Google and Yahoo. This could have been huge.

Donny

 

[netmeg]

Hmm, interesting. I only really deal with US and CA traffic on the advertising side, so I hadn't thought of that, but it's a good point.

In the SEM forums that I frequent, the perception is that Yahoo's ad program isn't worth much - it costs too much, doesn't convert, and they have a lot of crap sites in their search network (probably talking about domains, heh) So the AdWords advertisers are pretty vocal about wanting to have the ability to exclude Yahoo from their advertising campaigns unless they get to cherry pick where their ads show up. But so far, we have no idea how this is going to play out on the AdWords side.