Dan.com: End of Bodis for PPC; transition to GoDaddy Cashparking

Dan.com is a GoDaddy company, since its acquisition for $71.4 million dollars. Co-founder Reza Sardeha is no longer the CEO and has moved on to new ventures. The popular domain selling platform operates a PPC monetization option using Bodis.com and that is now going away. An announcement from Dan states that Dan users who want […]

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Norwegian blonde taunts you about the parked #domain

Did you search for a domain name and it wasn’t available? Worse still, is that domain parked with a Norwegian registrar such as Webhuset? You might encounter a smiling blonde from Norway taunting with a video you about your search with the following message: Domene du søkte er dessverre registrert og parkert. We have no […]

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New #Firefox HTTPS-Only Mode breaks #Uniregistry domain landers

Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode, a secure switch that attempts to connect securely to web sites using the https protocol. Unlike previous versions of the popular browser, when that mode is enabled any attempt to establish an insecure connection is not completed. Instead, a message is displayed that the connection is insecure. Many domain names […]

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#Bodis will now display Google “blocked” status code for parked #domains

Bodis, a kind sponsor of DomainGang, announced a PPC industry first as far as domain status codes are concerned. Google, the primary ad feed provider for many pay per click providers, often blocks domains, that once parked, end up displaying no ads. Bodis will now display the “blocked” status, instead of leaving these domain names […]

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Sucuri : 200,000 expired parked domains distribute malicious ads

A recent article by security experts, Sucuri, unveils the practices of a Hong Kong formed corporation, China Capital Investment Limited, and its portfolio of almost 200,000 parked domains. According to an extensive article by Sucuri, these domains have been specifically selected for their existing backlinks. Instead of simply showing a typical parking page, these domains […]

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Have loan domains? Your premium PPC revenue might plummet

Parked domain names related to loans garner some of the highest pay per clicks (PPC) for a variety of keywords. Additionally, searches for “loans” and “lending” are performed by individuals actively looking to establish new lines of credit. Such clicks, therefore, establish higher conversion rates for those service providers buying ads on the Google ad […]

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Uniregistry one step closer to launching domain editor for PPC landers

One of the things that came along with the integration of Domain Name Sales into the Uniregistry Market, is the change in the parked pages. Instead of the plethora of landers that one customized to suit the context of parked domains, a single, unified “blue hazy mountain” lander became the only choice. Naturally, many domain […]

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Enom “backpack” girl featured in domain comic!

Do you remember the eNom girl? Featuring a backpack, the iconic student was used on hundreds of thousands of domains parked on eNom pages, a decade ago. Hannah Steller, as her real name is, made a cameo appearance – in the same photo – as far as Nepal. Not only that, but the spoof story […]

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Shocking report: 95% of all domains are parked

Recent data from .com and .net managers, Verisign, unveil a shocking reality of the Internet: only 5% of all domain names are actual web sites. With parked or otherwise “for sale” domains representing 95% of all domain registrations, there’s an important issue right there. “Every damn web site I visit, I see this stupid Sedo […]

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Bobak Ferdowsi of NASA mission to Mars: Nice mohawk, shame about the dot com

Bobak Ferdowsi is a flight director for the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity mission, that successfully landed the Curiosity rover on Mars. With less than 200 twitter followers, Bobak Ferdowsi wasn’t expecting his followship to explode but it did: more than 18,000 people now follow him. Not only he’s now famous for his partially shaved head […]

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Red card for Frank?

Watched the game between England and Italy for Euro 2012 earlier today – which was won by the Azzurri 4-2 after a stressful penalty kick-out. On ESPN, former US soccer team defensive, Alexi Lalas, analyzed the game as usual. It seems that AlexiLalas.com is parked by its registrant on Frank Schilling’s Internet Traffic outfit – […]

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Google is Evil: Google’s removal of parked domains was planned all along

The latest announcement by Google that they will quietly but surely begin to remove parked domains from their searchable index, comes as no surprise. Google said among other things that: […] a new algorithm for automatically detecting parked domains. Parked domains are placeholder sites that are seldom useful and often filled with ads. They typically […]

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