Big Whypark Problem

[jasdon11]

Basically, it seems Whypark have been diverting 404 traffic away from the sites of their customers to a DS landing page.

I have asked for an explanation, and nearly two days later, I'm still waiting.

See more at this thread - http://www.dnforum.com/f71/wtf-thread-349962.html

[stock_post]

Thanks for sharing that, I was planning on taking an account.
Will re-consider it.

[Donald Aquilano]

They sometimes take awhile in answering emails. At least that's their track record with me.

[jasdon11]

This is their response:

"Yes, we will have an email/blog post out about this soon too. We’ve basically partnered with DomainSponsor to monetize the expired pages traffic.

We’ve found that the bounce rate is high when redirecting the user going to the expired page back to the home page.

We’re directly monetizing that traffic now though and have the revenue going to the domain holder. So, you are earning the revenue from that landing page.

Hope this helps!"

Unbelievable!

[domaingenius]

In laymans terms what does this actually mean therefore ?.

DG

[jasdon11]

It means that prior to informing their customers, they decided to divert any subdomain traffic away from the home page built by the customer, and send it to a DomainSponsor parking landing page instead. Apparently, they say that the DS lander works better than the Whaypark page for this traffic!!!!!

They seem to have an identity crisis - they think they are a parking company, and make decisions on their customers traffic as if they were....Whypark? I can think of a good reason to now!

[MD.]

Oh the irony

[jberryhill]

It means that prior to informing their customers, they decided to divert any subdomain traffic away from the home page built by the customer, and send it to a DomainSponsor parking landing page instead.

GoDaddy, btw, has been doing this for years, for any non-assigned URL if you use their re-direct service.