Innovative New Parking Program

[akeery]

Hello:

I would like to introduce myself and Parkingdots.com, Walnut-Venture’s innovative new Domain Parking program. My Name is Andrew Keery and I am head of BD for Walnut Ventures. We own an Overture backed parking service, Parkingdots.com. I am very excited about our latest release and the new features available.

Here's a few reasons to test our service:

1. Unique Payment Programs: Parking Dots is backed by industry leading PPC engines and offers unique programs, based on your specific portfolio of parked domains. For select members, we even have aggressive prepaid traffic programs. Yes, that means you can receive your PPC revenue up front while still retaining ownership of your domains.

2. Best of Breed Feature Set: ParkingDots offers all of the features that you would expect from an industry leading Parking solution, for instance; automated optimization of domains to maximize revenues, user customizable landing and results pages, on-line domain submission, flexible ‘for sale’ and portfolio management functionality and sophisticated online reporting.

3. No Risk Testing: We want to make it easy and risk free to test with us, so that you can see for yourself the exceptional value offered by our parking program. Parking Dots will guarantee whatever you are making now from your current provider for the duration of the test period. You can do this for all or even just a subset of your domain portfolio.

As ParkingDots 2.0 is a brand new release, we feel that we have a compelling and unique offering. We are well aware though, that no parking service currently out on the market is perfect. However, that won’t stop us from working to give you what you need the most. As such, we encourage any of our test users to let us know what they like or dislike about ParkingDots 2.0. We feel that collaborative partnerships are the only way to maximize revenues for both parties.

Feel free to drop me a line with any questions at all.
Regards,
Andrew

[Ed30]

Have you an example of your landing pages please?

[actnow]

Andrew,

Welcome.

I noticed on your site a couple points.

"We are an approved 3rd party Domain Hoster for one of the Top 2 PPC Engines.
As a top 10 Partner with our PPC Engine partner, we can offer very aggressive Revenue Share to partners — much higher than other Domain Parking providers in the channel."

Are you working with Y or G?

And, how does your "revenue share" compare to the other guys?

Many of us have started with new PPC suppliers and have had unhappy experiences.
Therefore, we might be more cautious about vague promises.

Do you have examples of your landing pages?

How are we paid?

"* New accounts become active when the minimum number of parked domains reaches fifty or more. Exceptions can be made on a case by case basis for high quality or high traffic domains."

I might be able to scrape together 50 or more domains to test.
But, I thought it was interesting that you are saying the acct will not start
paying until 50 domains. 50 having hits? or 50 submitted into your server?

[akeery]

Have you an example of your landing pages please?

We have many different 'off the shelf' landing pages and select the most effective via our auto-optimizer program. Below is one example, if I can provide more information, please let me know:

http://www.mysoftdns.com/

Hi there, thanks for the note....I sent you a PM with detailed answers to your questions.

Andrew,

Welcome.

I noticed on your site a couple points.

"We are an approved 3rd party Domain Hoster for one of the Top 2 PPC Engines.
As a top 10 Partner with our PPC Engine partner, we can offer very aggressive Revenue Share to partners — much higher than other Domain Parking providers in the channel."

Are you working with Y or G?

And, how does your "revenue share" compare to the other guys?

Many of us have started with new PPC suppliers and have had unhappy experiences.
Therefore, we might be more cautious about vague promises.

Do you have examples of your landing pages?

How are we paid?

"* New accounts become active when the minimum number of parked domains reaches fifty or more. Exceptions can be made on a case by case basis for high quality or high traffic domains."

I might be able to scrape together 50 or more domains to test.
But, I thought it was interesting that you are saying the acct will not start
paying until 50 domains. 50 having hits? or 50 submitted into your server?

[biggedon]

why not post the answers to his questions here in the forum, so we all know.

Thanks

[Poker]

Biggie you rock

[akeery]

why not post the answers to his questions here in the forum, so we all know.

Thanks

Re: Innovative New Parking Program

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Hi there, thanks for the note, answers below...let me know if you need any further information..take care.

Andrew,

Welcome.

I noticed on your site a couple points.

"We are an approved 3rd party Domain Hoster for one of the Top 2 PPC Engines.
As a top 10 Partner with our PPC Engine partner, we can offer very aggressive Revenue Share to partners — much higher than other Domain Parking providers in the channel."

Are you working with Y or G?

Y

And, how does your "revenue share" compare to the other guys?

Due to contractual obligations I cannot give a specific number. Suffice to say that we are a top 10 Yahoo/Overture partner and are paid accordingly. Uur revenue share and our subsequent payouts are highly competitive.

Many of us have started with new PPC suppliers and have had unhappy experiences.
Therefore, we might be more cautious about vague promises.

I understand. If you are interested in finding out more or testing with us, I will be as precise and detailed as possible.

Do you have examples of your landing pages?
We have a variety of landing pages that we test and run through our auto-optimizer to determine the pages with the highest yield for a given domain or portfolio. In some cases, we also offer direct to results or user configurable pages. Below are a couple of examples:

http://www.mysoftdns.com/
http://www.bridalexpo.com/

How are we paid?

You can be paid by check or wire, depending on the size of the payment.

"* New accounts become active when the minimum number of parked domains reaches fifty or more. Exceptions can be made on a case by case basis for high quality or high traffic domains."

I might be able to scrape together 50 or more domains to test.
But, I thought it was interesting that you are saying the acct will not start
paying until 50 domains. 50 having hits? or 50 submitted into your server?

For the next two months we are waving all minimums. our interest is partnering with domainers and furthering our brand name and reputation. We can offer to guarantee the revenue that you are currently making for the duration of the test (pending documentation review by finance). That removes the financial risk for you. At the end of the test we can make an offer, depending upon your preferences (rev share, guaranteed fixed payments etc).

Hope I answered your questions. Feel free to ask anything further.

Andrew

[StockDoctor]

I have more coms than anything else, but I'd like to know if you have any pages that are optimized for alternative extensions like info, biz, or us etc? Seems every ppc company concentrates on url-bar type-in traffic and doesn't want to expend any energy on SEO. Hopefully you have a solution. If they ever figure that out, they might find that by helping the alternative extension names work, they would get the rest of the easy com portfolio.
Doc

[akeery]

I have more coms than anything else, but I'd like to know if you have any pages that are optimized for alternative extensions like info, biz, or us etc? Seems every ppc company concentrates on url-bar type-in traffic and doesn't want to expend any energy on SEO. Hopefully you have a solution. If they ever figure that out, they might find that by helping the alternative extension names work, they would get the rest of the easy com portfolio.
Doc

We do not offer SEO pages for those extensions. I take your point that it would be a good 'value add' and lead to follow on business. However, currently, we are successfully winning business based upon a variety of factors, including the strength of our yield to partners and prepay options. As we release new versions with new feature sets, I'll keep everyone updated. I've passed on this feedback to our product folks. Thanks for the valuable input.

[NameTower]

How does optimization work?
Is there a 1 click system in place?
Can you self-optimize to appropriate keywords?
If so, is there an approval system and how long does that take..

[akeery]

Hi, answers below:

How does optimization work?
Optimization is handled systemically via our proprietary program. The system algorithmically selects the optimal layout and configuration on a per URL basis, across the entire portfolio. It usually takes about a week to fully optimize a portfolio.

Is there a 1 click system in place?
1 click is available for some domains. As you know, some perform better under a 2 click model anyway.

Can you self-optimize to appropriate keywords?
This feature is available for some partners.

If so, is there an approval system and how long does that take..
There is an approval procedure. Timeframes vary, based upon the portfolio, the keyword, the PPC provider that we are using, however a range is typically anywhere from same day to about a week for approval.

[Steen]

Are stats uploaded or fairly "live" (no more than an hour delay)?

PS: I see that Walnut Ventures also owns RedZip.com- I can only imagine your monthly Google bill :smartass:

[akeery]

Are stats uploaded or fairly "live" (no more than an hour delay)?

PS: I see that Walnut Ventures also owns RedZip.com- I can only imagine your monthly Google bill :smartass:

Overture releases per domain and overall portfolio revenue stats on a one day delay. We update our online partner reporting center as soon as the revenue data is available from Overture. We capture a lot of other data ourselves and can release that data to partners intraday, based on a partner's needs. Our online partner center V.III will be released shortly with real time stats (with the exception of official revenue, which is dependent upon Overture).