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Fabulous is a domain parking company and domain registrar. It is part of Dark Blue Sea, a publicly traded company. Fabulous uses Google for its main advertising feed. Fabulous will hand-optimize domain names to appropriate keywords for you. An example Fabulous lander is below. The company no longer accepts applications to its parking program and operates by invitation only. If you have a substantial domain portfolio and would like an invitation, please send details to invite [at] parkingjudge.com.
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Reviews (7)
LittleDevil
January 13th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Love the way they optimize gambling names.
Erhan Yilmaz
January 14th, 2009 at 8:22 am
Perfect customer service and return.
wannadevelop.com
January 14th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Fabulous owns over 500,000 domain names, so of course their proprietary technologies are second to none.
They know how to make sense of domain parking challenges and have developed the best solutions to do so.
The parking designs and layouts are very simple and “light” which converts most of the visitors into profit.
It would take me a while here to go through all of the features and options they offer for parked domain names but the best ones in my opinion are:
- Top notch customer support
and
- Top optimization and monetization solutions
All the best,
Mike
http://www.wannadevelop.com
Sdouglas
January 15th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Fabulous.com most definitely runs the best domainer registrar at the moment. Parking is great if you have adult and gambling domains.
Although payouts aren’t knocking me out, they have nice landing pages, and a fairly easy domain management backend. They are VERY easy to work with, and have probably the best customer service (I am conflicted with them and TZ, both are topnotch CS PS’s).
I recommend any domainer with more than 200 domains to contact Michael “Mikey” Robertson at Fabulous to help set up their parking accounts. He’s an all-purpose expert, and although his bowling skills are weak (heh heh), he’s the man when it comes to dealing with your domains.
I have a problem using Safari on a Mac to see my listed traffic uniques, clicks and payouts, but not my summary payouts on my top domains.
If you use their system, go with their categorization team to set your domains up. They know what they’re doing. AAA+++
Johnny
March 9th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
They used to be the best….not sure what happened. Earnings have gone to pot….including gambling domains.
They tie Parked for the #1 position for customer service.
I’m not sure why….but even with the slickest landers in the industry and a Google feed the CTR is still pretty low. The depth of ads is poor also…which makes no sense unless advertisers are opting out b/c domains parked with them convert poorer.
They are a great team of guys. I hope they can turn things around some day.
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DNhop
March 9th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
The only way to properly assess these sites are to trial the same names for the same period of time at each.
I did exactly that in the spring of 2008.
Ten names were parked at each of five parking sites for a period of one month. The same 10 names were parked at each of the listed locations for a period of 10 days.
Those parking sites were:
Parked
Sedo
Fabulous
Bodis
NameDrive
I do not want to dive into detail of each.
These are my overall results and impressions of parking the same ten names at each of 5 parking companies for 30 days each:
Overall:
Sedo wins in overall PPC on a daily and monthly basis
NameDrive came in last in PPC
Sedo, Parked, NameDrive, and Fabulous all do well with report/analytics.
Bodis is last in report/analytics.
Parked wins in best of customization.
Sedo is last in customization.
Sedo, Parked, NameDrive, and Bodis tie for user interface.
Fabulous is the last in user interface.
Parked and Fabulous tie in support
Sedo is last in support.
Summary;
User Interface winner is a tie between Sedo, Parked, NameDrive, and Bodis with Fabulous being last. Each site does require a learning period but Fabulous was not very friendly. All parking sites has some issues with user interface which may be related to learning each. Fabulous was the most confusing.
Analytics was pretty much equal across the board with the exception of Bodis offering the least amount of analytics. Also, Bodis user interface is improving but is very difficult to optimize/customize a domain with out have to list the entire roster of domains.
On a PPC basis, Parked was perhaps 60% LESS of than Sedo, Fabulous, and Bodis with NameDrive being the least PPC. One particular name at Parked had $15.97 PPC one day and the next clicks are $0.01-$0.03 for the 30 days. While Parked reportedly pays for multiple clicks and Sedo does not Sedo still came out in top overall on PPC daily and monthly. Lastly was NameDrive at significantly (70%) of the five sites. PPC was also (on average for one month) approximately 40% of Sedo
CTR was pretty much the same at Sedo, Fabulous, Parked, and NameDrive. However, with such a steep disappearance of traffic at Sedo, these results are pretty much skewed to reflect the same CTR as a representative of traffic caught. Bodis provides not breakdown on visitors/clicks making it impossible to capture results. Bodis essentially gives a total of visitors and earnings.
NOTE: Although Parked may have similar CTR rates, the disappearance of traffic (60% less than all others) is bothersome. One has to wonder why 4 out of 5 testing reflect higher traffic for the same names and thirty days. For what ever reason or whatever excuse one can come up with, Parked was capturing approximately 40% of the traffic all the other three trialed were getting for the same names.
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However, for non-dotcom domains, Bodis did exceptionally better (perhaps 75%) in terms of CTR and PPC than the other four sites.
Support for Fabulous and Parked were far above the others tested. NameDrive was good but slower than Fabulous and Parked. Bodis is smaller in terms of size and staff than the others tested and has been undergoing major changes in appearance, usability, and feeds. Overall, support was the worst with Sedo and virtually no one even close.
Being a member of domain name forums, one has to wonder why customers are ignored, not responded to, or encounter several days in getting a response. One has to wonder if Sedo (based in Germany) has been using the model of a four day work week for a couple of years now. It seems like any names parked on a Thursday are not added to the system until the following Monday. The same can be said for an email or support request. Having been a long time user of Sedo (nearly 5 years) these same problems and issues have been reported, responded to, and discussed numerous times but still occur as a matter of practice.
With that said, my impression of rating the five tested would be
1. Sedo
2. Bodis
3. (tie) Parked, Fabulous, NameDrive
A ranking of 1 for Sedo by no means puts it in a category by itself and is mostly due to earnings overall.
Pluses and minuses can be said equally about each.
Stephen Douglas
June 27th, 2009 at 5:16 am
@DNhop
Checked out your cred and no name for who writes on your blog site. I also checked out your “2nd place is pretty good” choice of BODIS.COM.
There are significant problems with that site, starting with… who the heck are they? Where are they located? What are their payouts? Anybody have any ongoing experience with them?
Also, my Fabulous payouts are increasing, and WhyPark’s new custom page addition features are topnotch, no html codes if you use the button feature additions. WhyPark is getting better each month in providing ease of use features, it seems. Payouts I hear are getting much better. I will wait until I see my June 2009 payout report to make a comment…
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