The New York Times links to one of my parked domains - Hits explode

**Acro** · 02-18-2008, 01:33 PM

A few years ago I acquired MongoMusic.com - once owned by Microsoft who "swallowed" the startup and then ended its service.

Today I noticed that traffic had exploded. It seems that this article in today's New York Times links directly to my domain

The article talks about Microsoft's attempt to acquire Yahoo and previous such practices and how they ended. I wonder if the editor of the NYT bothered to check the link LOL

**DomainMagnate** · 02-18-2008, 01:34 PM

Congrats Acro

**dcristo** · 02-18-2008, 01:34 PM

Good for you man. Let us know what conversions are like for today.

**whitebark** · 02-18-2008, 01:35 PM

Nice one. Are they clicking away?

**Bill Roy** · 02-18-2008, 01:35 PM

Congrats Acro.

Oh how we all dream of such things!

**Acro** · 02-18-2008, 01:35 PM

It's the first time ever that sedo stats are of any use

**Banned: domain newbie** · 02-18-2008, 01:36 PM

thats cool- ones you started this thread about gun's website- same happened to you ~ must be a psychic ..

**Acro** · 02-18-2008, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by domain newbie

thats cool- ones you started this thread about gun's website- same happened to you ~ must be a psychic ..

No guns here, just looney tunes.

**Focus** · 02-18-2008, 01:53 PM

bad ethics..lol

**Acro** · 02-18-2008, 01:54 PM

The Microsoft way of doing biz? yes.

**draggar** · 02-18-2008, 02:00 PM

Nice job, and it's even clickable in the article.

**Focus** · 02-18-2008, 02:05 PM

now if you had it parked somewhere other than sedo you would actually make some money today

**dcristo** · 02-18-2008, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by Focus

now if you had it parked somewhere other than sedo you would actually make some money today

Doubt it, music traffic is crap.

I find it interesting that NYT would link to a parked page. Surely they would have known?

**Acro** · 02-18-2008, 02:11 PM

Originally Posted by draggar

Nice job, and it's even clickable in the article.

That's the reason traffic surged

Originally Posted by Focus

now if you had it parked somewhere other than sedo you would actually make some money today

Read my article on sedo vs. Parked, at my blog

**Focus** · 02-18-2008, 02:12 PM

I don't really see a huge amount of traffic on it...it shows like under 130 total hits...wtfunk

"download music" & "online music" and similiar terms used to pay well at parked.com..sedo I'm sure is a few pennies

**Acro** · 02-18-2008, 02:13 PM

Originally Posted by dcristo

Doubt it, music traffic is crap.

I find it interesting that NYT would link to a parked page. Surely they would have known?

Actually sedo pays up to almost $0.50 per click these days, as long as you're smart enough to forge a nice keyword

Originally Posted by Focus

I don't really see a huge amount of traffic on it...it shows like under 130 total hits...wtfunk

"download music" & "online music" and similiar terms used to pay well at parked.com..sedo I'm sure is a few pennies

Stats are off. I got more than 200 hits just today. Parked pays 3 to 4 cents for these keywords, unfortunately.

**dcristo** · 02-18-2008, 02:15 PM

Originally Posted by Acroplex

Actually sedo pays up to almost $0.50 per click these days, as long as you're smart enough to forge a nice keyword

wow man, nearly fell off my chair. but then you have to get the balance right between good paying clicks and ctr.

**Acro** · 02-18-2008, 02:16 PM

I'm not about to make a fortune either way

The whole point is how an article on something from the past can impact a domain's traffic. I was aware of the domain and the business (they were sold to MSFT for $6 million in 2000) but otherwise traffic was low.

**hugegrowth** · 02-18-2008, 02:38 PM

Congrats, nice when something like that happens!

the parked page actually looks quite nice. would be funny if you get an offer on the domain from this, keep us posted...