Parked
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Parked.com is a domain parking service using a primarly Yahoo ad feed. The service boasts over 15,000 templates which can be heavily customized. Clients can upload their own pictures, add text, etc. Parked.com pays clients twice monthly, net seven days. An example Parked.com lander is below.
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Reviews (11)
David
January 8th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Super easy to use! Really good payouts. It takes a day to get final stats, though. Reporting is somewhat limited. Customization is easy.
Jeff R
January 13th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
I have most of my domains there. Great money, and the stats are getting updated much faster.
I like how you can add text to the bottom of your domains.
Ross
January 13th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Great company to work with, they are fast on the payments and their payouts are great.
Sdouglas
January 14th, 2009 at 6:03 am
Parked is as good as they come, but their payouts, like all the other parking services, have dropped 50% for me in the last 8 months. I like the twice monthly payouts though, and that alone makes them a good choice.
Plus they pay a good refcomm percentage for new users you bring to them.
Nice templates, good domain management system.
MD
January 14th, 2009 at 9:17 am
Easy and self explained user interface. Excellent support. Great with US traffic but not that great with European traffic.
Michael
January 14th, 2009 at 10:22 am
I do not think there payouts are that great. Most adult sites there on pay 0.01 to 0.05 per click. I would like to see some type of documentation when the down line provider removes clicks received on certain sites other wise you have to trust the parking company’s word. Now it is not that I do not trust them but there should be some way to prove why they are taking away money from you. This standard should apply to all parking company’s.
Mike
January 19th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Good company that cares about the people parking with them, however the earning tend to be low and I have had plenty of one cent clicks.
I only use them for only a few domains anymore, mostly just the adult ones.
Sameh
January 31st, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Earnings: High EPC & CTR most of the time. Fast payouts. Good payout structure.
Reports/Analytics: I hope instead of 5 days limit on keywords & traffic stats they extend it to all the time.
Customization: I can’t think of any other parking service give you all the Customization abilities that Parked provide.
Support: Great customer service. They assigned 3 employees to each account lately.
Overall Opinion: Good & well-established parking service.
Mike (Magoogle)
March 9th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Some may pick on the pay-per click but getting visitors and clicks is most important. Its the final value to me that counts and they get it!
Johnny
March 9th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
The best parking co. there is, but the rapid pace of innovation has slowed to a crawl as of late….like the last year or so.
I still like them the best however.
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.
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