Sitebox Parking Program Closes

Marchex has discontinued their Sitebox parking program.  Above.com has disabled redirection to the Sitebox service for any clients who currently have it in their rotation. …

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Sedo Parking Statistics Cleanup

Today, Sedo sent an e-mail out to all its parking customers informing them of the upcoming improvements to their parking stats. This includes improvements to their traffic counting methods.

Here is the complete email:

At Sedo, we’re dedicated to offering only the highest quality products and services to help you make the most of your domain portfolio. In a continued effort to do so, we’ve made some important changes to Sedo’s parking program and are conducting a parking statistics “cleanup.”

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The .xxx Extension

.xxx.gifThe ICM registry has won an appeal for an independent review of the .xxx extension.

The proposed TLD .xxx is suggested as an option for sexually explicit Internet websites. .xxx would be suitable for adult material, similar to .edu for education and .gov for government bodies.

The .xxx would be suitable for adult material, similar to .edu for education and .gov for government bodies. The appeal has caused controversy for both those for and against the introduction of the TLD.

The idea of .xxx would be to implement a way for those who wish to provide access to pornographic nature on the web and also make it easier for those who don’t wish to view explicit material to block the websites. This would also make it easier for search engines to block .xxx websites.

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Domain Conflicts – Warning Must Read

The untold story how domain conflicts can severely impact your parking revenues.

 

If you are an active domainer and you buy, sell, trade, register, drop, taste domains, then you are surely being affected by domain ownership conflicts at the various parking companies.

 

These are the known issues:

 

Anyone can add a list of domains to a parking account and state that they own these names. Parking companies then have to decide who the current and real owner is. And no, doing a whois search does not help here, that is not in most cases… as like most domainers, whois privacy is more and more common, and fake or offshore entities are even more common for domainers that wish to remain unknown, just in case they have a TM based domain that they know or do not know they own.

 

But I digress… so what actually happens when you have 2 parking accounts both claiming ownership of the same domain? Who get the traffic and earnings allocated to their account?  Do you know? Do you even know where to find in your account any reported domain conflicts?

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ActiveAudience Becomes SmartName

The domain parking service, ActiveAudience recently moved all its services and users to SmartName. For previous ActiveAudience users, this means access to many more features …

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