“The next evolution of WhyPark has arrived and I am excited to make Domain Apps By WhyPark available to our customers”, said Craig Rowe, founder of WhyPark. “Customers have been demanding new engaging applications that will attract and retain visitors to their sites. Domain Apps By WhyPark offers just that through relevant search engine friendly text as well as video, photos and data. I am pleased with the launch of our new Domain Apps service and look forward to building upon it in the future.”

The following Domain Apps are now available to WhyPark customers:

• Comparison Shopping
• Hotel Directory
• Local Business Listings
• Online Flash Games
• Twitter Stream
• Weather
• Web Directory
• YouTube Videos

Several Domain Apps also provide new revenue streams including the Web Directory and Comparison Shopping Domain Apps. WhyPark is already developing new Domain Apps and will continue to enhance the service to meet customers’ needs.

“I am very excited about WhyPark’s new domain apps,” stated Elliot Silver, founder of Silver Internet Ventures, LLC. “Domain Apps will allow me to add unique features and functionality to some of my geo-domain and niche industry websites, which I know will increase stickiness and revenue.”

To learn more about Domain Apps visit:

I’ve heard a lot of people saying lately that parking is hopeless and that revenue is 5 cents a click on a lot of their domains etc. Here’s what you should do to maximize your revenue (well, it worked for us).

Keep good inventory and records
Set up a spreadsheet and keep a record of Domain, Reg Date, Exp Date, Registrar, Where Parked Now, and then a column for each parking company where you will put the average RPC for that domain. This will help you work out where you should be parking each domain.

Sign up everywhere
Sign up everywhere you can. Get yourself a membership with Fabulous, Parked, WhyPark, Bodis, SedoPro, DomainSponsor, TrafficZ, NameDrive, SmartName, BigJumbo/Skenzo. Then, get yourself an Above.com account to easily manage and view your statistics and link all your accounts to it.

Don’t set and forget
Don’t just add all your domains to one parking company, set the nameservers, and hope to do well. Cycle your domains through different parking companies every 30 days.

My recommendations to try first, in order; Fabulous, Parked, SedoPro, Bodis, then any others. Record all the figures in your spreadsheet, then go back through and set each domain to where it performed best. You can have this done automatically through Above.com, but I prefer to have manual control over this process and a full suite of information available to me.

Contact your account managers
Email your Fabulous, Parked, SedoPro etc account managers and ask what they can do to help you. Fabulous will optimize your domains if they’re performing poorly free of charge, Parked can make recommendations, SedoPro can also do these type of things. Also ask about your revenue share – most will match the revenue share you get elsewhere or even give you a better deal.

Be fair to your parking companies
Do not engage in arbitrage, click fraud, or dodgy practices to inflate your figures. It’s not worth your account, earnings, and reputation. Parking revenue is impacted by these activities on everyone, and I for one wish it did not exist as I would personally prefer my legitimate traffic be paid fairer and higher. Everyone can do their bit simply by being fair to the people helping you get paid!

Likewise, if you notice a problem with one of your own domains (weird traffic, strange CTR’s) contact your account manager and mention it. Better to get it fixed and resolved than lose your entire account and earnings.

Refer people
Referral links and programs with a lot of parking companies entitle you to 5-10% of your referred customers revenue for at least 12 months. Even if they earn $50 a month, that’s still $60 a year bonus in your pocket for no work at all.

Monitor and review
If your domain is still performing very poorly on an RPC basis but getting traffic, it’s time to develop. If revenues drop off, go back to your spreadsheet and find out who paid 2nd best and move the domain to them for 30 days and re-evaluate then.

It’s worth the effort!
We’re quickly moving to a spot where all of our domain renewal costs and expenses related to our inventory will be totally covered by parking revenue, so it’s basically becoming free to hold our portfolio. From what I can see so far, our parking revenue will be up around 450% by using these tactics.

Optimize your domains
Ask for help from your account manager for general guidance on how to do this on each platform. You can usually at the very least set keywords. For Parked and Fabulous, you have massive customization options to help yourself out. You usually only have to do this once or twice.

Register with Fabulous.com, try there first
You get free parking, DNS and EMail Management, Privacy and E-Lock for your High Value domains. The revenue for most domains is incredibly fair and overall the largest share of our domains will be remaining with Fabulous. Reporting is second to none and you get access to features to help sell your domains, we sell more domains through Fabulous’ tools than any other method other than end user contact. Contact your account manager, ask how they can help.

Your parking company will not mind
On an 80% revenue share, if you’re getting 2 cents a click on a subset of domains your parking company isn’t going to mind you moving all the domain in this category elsewhere – they’ll understand you need to maximize revenue and they probably will not care about their 0.3 cents a click they’ll no longer earn

Your time is money
Yes, this will take more time. Set aside a day or two to work on your parking. Go through and optimize all your domains on every registrar account and work at it all in one hit. For something you only have to do once in most cases, the ongoing rewards are well worth it.

Hope this helped a little. Some of you will learn nothing, but some of you will find it useful

I’m delighted to announce what we at NameDrive believe is the first-ever domain parking advent calendar.

Every day for the next 24 days, NameDrive will be revealing something new to the world by means of the calendar on our site.

Today, you get a new template to play with, so what are you waiting for?

You can access the calendar here.

Our US colleagues tell me that advent calendars aren’t particularly widely-known in the US, so, if you are unsure of their origins, let me enlighten you:

When you’re a kid in Europe, on 1st December, you get a calendar with 24 numbered doors on it.

Every day, you get to open one door, revealing a picture.

When you get older, if you’re lucky, a picture is replaced by a daily chocolate to eat before school.

When you get older, if you’re lucky, your girlfriend makes you 24 little presents which you can open every day.

When you get older, if you’re lucky, your domain parking company puts an advent calendar on their homepage for you to open every day.

If you’re itching for a somewhat more in-depth overview, you’ll find one here.

So there it is, enjoy the calendar, marvel at the revelations and make use of the goodies we provide from now til 24th December.

Wishing everyone a successful and happy holiday season.

Ed

NameDrive

Sedo has purchased ParkingPanel.com and is now in the process of incorporating the brand into our company.

After September 30th, the ParkingPanel.com brand will be fully integrated into Sedo’s marketplace and Sedo is asking all ParkingPanel.com members to create a Sedo account before that date in order to continue your parking earnings.

As an additional revenue opportunity, the Fabulous.com Expiring Domains Service has delivered fantastic results for our own portfolio and those customers that were selected for our beta testing program. With the minimum sale price being US$69, it is a great way to squeeze out some final revenue before letting your domains expire.

Below are some basic details about the program:

This is an opt in service and only available to those domains registered at Fabulous.com.

You will received 60% of the final sales prices (minus the renewal fee) for all domain names sold through this service.

It is a requirement for you to agree to the Domain Inventory Management Agreement, however you are not required to list any names for sale.

All expiring domain names in your account will automatically be listed for sale at NameJet, except for the domain names you have marked as “Never Sell”

Domain names can still be renewed for the first 30 days after the expiry date however, after this date it may not be possible for you to retain ownership of any expired domain names in your account if you have opted in to this service.

For more information about how the Expiring Domains Service works, please visit our FAQs page.

If you are interested in participating in the Expiring Domains Service, please contact your Account Representative.

Here’s some stats on the Expiring Domains Services program, which I thought some may find interesting:

Mean: $86.08
Median: $69.00
Mode: $69.00
Biggest sale: $1011.00

* Note: Network wide stats.

And below are some examples of domains we have sold from our own portfolio:

DeerHuntingLodge.com – $360.00
ESolarPanels.com – $367.00
AvoidingStress.com – $445.00
NebraskaBailBond.com – $565.00
CognitiveBehavorialTherapy.com – $586.00
NewYorkElevators.com – $670.00
SportBetsOnline.com – $690.00

Cheers,

Mike
Fabulous.com

A question that is often asked is how much money will I make when a person visits my parking page and clicks on an ad. Or how much revenue can I earn from domain ads?

Some of the highest paying clicks reported are over $100 but the amount you are paid from domain parking ads depends on several factors.

Which domain parking company or ad provider you use.

Your keywords – certain keywords pay much higher than others.

Which ad the visitor clicks. The first ad on your parking page may pay more than the next ad while the lower domain parking ads can pay much less.

High clicks from domain parking ads range today from $1.00 to $18.00 dollars. Lower clicks may pay as little as .01 per click.

Parked pays for multiple clicks from the same visitor. If your visitor clicks more than one ad you get paid for each time they click. Many parking companies only pay you for the first click. Getting paid for multiple clicks can earn you more from domain parking ads.

Most domain parking companies use either a Yahoo or Google ad feed. Your earnings from domain parking ads can depend on which ad feed is better for your domain names.

Which keywords are the best?

To find out how much domain parking ads can pay use Google’s AdWords Search Based Keyword Tool.

Keyword suggestion tools can help you can find the highest paying ads for your domain parking pages, websites or blogs. You can search for specific keywords or browse the categories.

Examples of high paying keywords for domain parking ads include:

structured settlements

Mesothelioma

asbestos

acne

life insurance

auto insurance quotes

credit cards

debt consolidation

student loans

dedicated servers

DUI Attorneys

online degrees

Revnue from domain parking ads can also be affected by the economy. In poor economic times advertisers may cut back thier spending on online advertising. When the economy is good advertisers may spend more and your keywords can earn higher returns.

Doing a little research can help earn more from your domain parking ads.

Building on several years’ experience of brokering private domain sales totaling several million dollars, NameDrive now gives all of our clients the opportunity to buy and sell domains on a vibrant, innovative, international trading platform: NDX Market.

Domain owners can list domains as best offer or auctions, both with the added option of setting a BuyNow price – offering the chance to set up your own fixed price domain store.

Domain investors can take advantage of Park&Sell listings which show domains’ parking earnings for the last 30 days on NameDrive, giving you the opportunity to invest in domains which are proven to make real cash.

In addition to launching a comprehensive aftermarket, NameDrive has also fully revamped the homepage and parking front office.
Since August 2005, NameDrive has been renowned for innovation in domain management and parking options. NameDrive was the first company to provide folder management for domains, next generation parking templates, full IDN functionality, global optimization preview, individual letter capitalization and more.

The new Front Office takes this innovation to the next level with full per-country statistical breakdown and settings, dynamic navigation, advanced analytical tools, on-the-fly optimization, virtual folders and customizable log in screens among several new features.

Make sure you drop by NameDrive soon to check out the new features, list your domains on the aftermarket and look into expanding your domain portfolio on NDX Market.

We hope you enjoy using the new system as much as we enjoyed building. We’d obviously love to hear any and all feedback. We will continue to make changes and updates over the next couple of weeks, so this is just the beginning.

Parked’s acquisition of WhyPark offers several advantages for WhyPark customers including a new premium top-tier feed for offering the highest revenue effective immediately. WhyPark customers will also receive:

• Keyword selection expertise to maximize revenue and click-through rate (CTR)
• Experienced staff to optimize domain names for maximum revenue
• Payment twice a month
• Payment options for PayPal, direct deposit, check and international wire
• 10% referral programs

WhyPark, an innovator in the domain development space, recently launched a rapid site development platform which allows its customers to create custom sites in minutes, earn revenue through flexible opportunities including cost-per-action (CPA) and cost-per-click (CPC), and attract search engines, advertisers and visitors. WhyPark’s suite of premium services is also available for the highest level of content development and SEO for the more advanced domain name investor. In a recent Domain Name Wire survey, WhyPark was voted the best parking alternative.

“Domainers are looking for new options and services to help increase their ROI,” said Donny Simonton, President of Parked Technology Services. “The WhyPark purchase offers new such opportunities. The combination of Parked.com’s proprietary technology and WhyPark’s rapid site development will offer immediate unmatched added value to WhyPark clients. WhyPark’s domain development technology will also be integrated into Parked.com’s services in the coming months providing new services for Parked clients. This is a definite win for Parked customers.”

WhyPark Founder and President, Craig Rowe will remain with WhyPark and continue to be very integral in the future development of WhyPark. “The WhyPark acquisition is fantastic for current and future WhyPark customers,” stated Craig Rowe. “Backed by the financial strength as well as the technology and capability of Parked.com, greater opportunities are now available for WhyPark customers. I am excited and confident with the future of WhyPark.”

WhyPark clients will continue to utilize their existing administrative interface. No changes will be required by current WhyPark clients.

About Parked

Founded in 2006, Parked offers domain parking solutions for domain name owners. Parked leverages technology for dynamic domain name optimization providing leading edge parked pages that are relevant to what internet users are looking for and ensuring targeted traffic for advertisers. With clients worldwide who combined own 4,000,000 domain names, Parked has aggressively become a leader in the domain parking space and was voted best parking company in the 2008 User Choice Awards.

About WhyPark

WhyPark quickly builds domains to become living websites. The company’s proprietary system provides new and relevant content daily to clients’ domain names, obtaining search engine visibility for domains instead of relying on type-in traffic or temporary links.