Domain Parking Firm ParkingDots Closes its Doors
Leonard Holmes of ParkQuick notes on a domain firm shutting down.
A major domain parking firm just disclosed that it is closing its doors. ParkingDots will be no more effective March 9th.
In the last issue of Name Monetizer I noted that ParkingDots had lost its Yahoo feed. They were unable to obtain another “tier 1” feed, and today disclosed that they are shutting their doors for good. If you have domains parked there, you ought to move then right away. You may want to try one of our right now recommended services:
- Parked
- ActiveAudience & GoldKey
- Sedo & SedoPro
- TrafficZ
ParkingDots paid 80% of the revenue that they received from Yahoo. This was great for domainers, but maybe there is a reason that others don’t pay at that rate. Landing pages from ParkingDots didn’t quite keep up with those from the industry leaders. I don’t know why Yahoo dropped them, but I did detect some nervousness from the industry leaders when I interviewed them last month. This may not be last parking firm to close its doors this year. The notice from ParkingDots read in part:
Hello. You were recently informed of the end of our Yahoo feed for your parked domains, and the subsequent contract we expected to sign with another Tier One feed provider. Unfortunately, the arrangement with the alternate provider did not work out as we’d expected. The consequence of this is that ParkingDots will be closing our doors effective this Sunday, March 9, 2008 at midnight. All the domains you have pointed to us ought to be redirected immediately to an alternate parking firm…. Any monies owed you will be paid as stated by our normal payment schedule, approximately 45 days following months end.
The site also included the following stats:
Yesterday’s Hits Total 63K
Top Hits (1 Day) 2K
Month Average 82K
If these stats are accurate, then a lot of you may need to do some quick nameserver changes on your domains. I’m starting right now.
(Thanks for the space, Andrew)
Leonard Holmes
ParkQuick.com
