This is good news becuase we can finally get the middle men out the way that have been controlling our ability to generate parking revenue while they make money off us and buy domains from us at cut rate prices based on the multiples of the crappy revenue share they give us.
They talk in terms of multiples of revenue based on our stats, yet as soon as they buy it that domain will produce more income from for them then us just becuase they have a direct feed.
We have been wanting transparency for awhile. Well now we might not need it we just skip parking companies altogether.
It will also take down Jerk off companies like Senzo/Big Jumbo that screw me over and dropped my payout from about $120 a day down to $30 a day just becuase I was only sending about 20000 visitors a month and was not one of the big guys. Mind you they did not say my traffic quality was poor or that they did not want my traffic only that becuase I did not have more of it they were going to pay me less and they did it without any warning. Which is totally screwed. Becuase I was seeing my rev increase I based my parking business model on future projections and was buying new domains heavily and it was all working until they got greedy!
I was reading an article about How Great the founder of Directi is and how much money he has made at such a young age. Yeah by screwing over the people that use his service. They penalize you for being a small player while they make millions off your traffic.
When you see one day you are making a payout of $120 and the next $30 from the exact same traffic you see that how manipulated this this parking industry is and what scam is it for us to park names.
I see both sides it's their business they can charge what they want, they are offering us a service and we are free to take or leave it, all true. But the terms are so much in their favor it sucks for us.
Hopefully now the playing filed will be leveled out. I wonder if this is why Skenzo switched from google's feed to yahoo? When they switched I went from that $30 a day to about $10 if that.
So I left parking all together used my knowledge that I had acquired over the last 10 years and stared going the affiliate route with my adult domains to I make between $50 to $100 a day or more when their are special promo days. Seems to be growing as well from repeat traffic.
But I would like to actually make some money on my non-adult names and I am hoping I can do that with Google Adsense for domains now.
Yahoo might follow suit all of these companies want to make money in the crappy economy and they don't need to give middle men a cut. Looks like the parking industry maybe on it's way out.
I am sure google will improve the pages and even have an API for those that want to do some programming on this end.
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The other good news is that if we are making more money parking the prices of domains will increase as well especially revenue/traffic names. Also that Google the big boy on the block is working with domainers now also give more press pr and creditability to this industry.