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NameDrive is a Google-based domain parking service started in Europe but with offices in the United States. NameDrive also brokers domain sales. In addition to a wealth of category templates, NameDrive has 20 different styles of landing pages. An example NameDrive parked page is below.
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Reviews (10)
Steve
January 13th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Very easy to use and the new templates are good. I like how they also help you sell domains.
MD
January 14th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Performs OK with European traffic but not so good with US. Nice set of templates. Totally confusing UI.
xtremest
January 26th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Very fine.
Fine templates and very friendful support.
Spanish domains are doing not so very well, but ok.
Myles Agnew
February 11th, 2009 at 6:14 am
Excellent Support Staff they get back within a few hrs.
Nice template range and for the price (FREE) you can’t go wrong!
Myles Agnew
Johnny
March 9th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
They have some neat stuff going on, but if earnings are 1/5 of what they are elsewhere than it drags the rest of what they do down.
DNhop
March 9th, 2009 at 2:26 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.
v5x
March 11th, 2009 at 11:28 am
I think Namedrive has the friendliest customer support - I think this really counts when you’re sending a company all your traffic.
They are quick to reply, unlike some companies who seem to take days or weeks, which makes me think “why bother”.
I have found CPC to be higher than Sedo in some cases.
Namedrive a due to lauch their new NDX plaform soon, which should have some new features.
koko
May 29th, 2009 at 8:27 am
I think Namedrive is a scam.
I parked 2 domains with them, but the day I completed the minimum requirement ammount to withdraw my money, I got an email from them saying my account was banned!
The reason? The traffic to my domains was mainly from target hits and a few of the visitors came from some backlinks to these domains.
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Stephen Douglas
June 27th, 2009 at 6:07 am
@DUB-A
We need to update our overall impression of PS’s according to DNHOP.
DNhop is posting his same rating data and content on every PS name you have listed on ParkingJudge.com. He is fervent in his excitement about the incredible payouts he’s getting…
But I have questions about the boilerplate info he is providing:
1) Bodis.com being rated #2 in PS monetization. This can be big news to thousands of domain owners!! Now, I’ve been in this game for six years, and I can confidently say I doubt that Bodis.com’s CTR and CPC is better than TrafficZ, Domainsponsor, Fabulous, NameDrive, Skenzo and several others.
Okay, I don’t know everything, even though I try to tell everyone I meet that I do. But there it is, in identical posts by DNhop on most every PS listed on your site… Bodis is NUMBER TWO!
Maybe Bodis.com is an “up and comer”, but like the hooker I heard trying to pick up Frank Michlick on Hollywood Blvd at 2am at Domainfest 09:
…”If it ain’t up, it ain’t coming… ”
I was stoked to hear Frank wisely respond: “Es ist nicht, und es kommt nicht für Sie, Miss Hure” (This is a “Teller of Tales” segment and cannot be trusted for accuracy)
So does anyone have any comments about this Bodis.com? I am truly surprised that you, Dub-A, were not “in the loop” of knowing the powerhouse PS’s and did not include Bodis.com in this your here. Maybe many domainers are scratching their heads too…
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