VERY Unexpected High Parking Traffic!

[rxmr]

I recently purchased an expired name ( a .org, nonetheless ) that showed very little traffic (20 visits / month); I just thought it was a good name.

Anyway, after parking it at Namedrive for the last 2 days, I am getting about 7,000 hits per day, but no clicks. None of my other domains are showing an increase in traffic despite the recent DDOS targeted at Namedrive.

My questions are:

1. Could this traffic be related to the DDOS?
- If so, why are other domains not showing a traffic increase?
2. What's the best way to optimize for CTR? :hehe: (somewhat generic name)
3. What questions am I not asking?
4. Should I contact Namedrive or just keep checking my stats?

Again, this is very unexpected and possibly circumstantial.

Thanks in advance for any response / advice.

 

[meditang]

Just put up a page with statcounter code.
You can find out from where the traffic is coming.
I once had similar traffic and found that it was probably from bots.

 

[mbuna]

I use google analytics on all of my pages to find the traffic source and keywords used.

 

[Kenny]

If you are getting 7000 hits with no clicks, I suspect a stuck bot.
But def contact ND and report this

Cy

 

[Mike]

Not sure if that's related to your problem, but i had the same traffic spike on one of my .US domains. Contacted Parked.com and received an IP address, reverse searched and retrieved a company from CA.
Contacted the IT admin at the company and he told me that it's a bot that's running, searching for phishing sites, sites that had recent activity that suddenly changed, etc. I'm not sure what the parameters are that they're using to send their bots to work or how it exactly works, nonetheless, this was what contributed to my traffic spike. This lasted for about 1mth, now everything is back to normal.
Upon my question whether he can program the bot to at least click on something every 2nd time he's stopping by, i got a rather dry laugh out of him....
Domainers are just a bit more relaxed than cut n' dry IT guys i guess

Anyhow, get the IP address and verify its origin, then take it from there...

Keep us posted...
IB

 

[rxmr]

Thanks for all the replies so far, I am stuck at my day job right now, but was able to dig a little deeper into Namedrive's stats for my domain. The majority (quad digit traffic) coming from Europe, and the rest ( triple digit traffic ) coming from the US and other regions. I am not yet sure if the traffic is primarily coming from one / few IP/s, but I suspect botnet-type traffic in general. Oh well, I was hoping I stumbled on to a hidden goldmine. -

UPDATE: Traffic is actually about 4600 / Day - I looked at the total traffic when I origianlly posted.

Also, I tried to switch parking to SEDO just to comapre and they would not allow the domain - maybe it has a bad history - glad I only paid reg fee + $5 for it at TDNAM.

If I found out more tonight, I'll post the info.

 

[blaknite]

My suggestion would be to host the domain and log the traffic. Determine if the hits are all coming from the same source. (Same Ip, or many similar ips from the same area.)

If the traffic is bogus its not good for you and you're better off not having it. You wouldn't want your parking company to devalue your real clicks because they think you're sending junk.

Anyways if you find all the traffic is coming from one place you could write up a .htaccess redirect and send the traffic to the server of the company who's hammering your domain. At the very least you would want to implement an ip block to keep it from hammering your parking service.