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DotAsia Sunrise & Landrush Auctions Completed Successfully

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:24:45 +0000

DotAsia Organisation announced today the successful completion of the
.Asia Sunrise and Landrush auctions. Domains receiving multiple
qualified applications in the respective Sunrise and Landrush phases
were allocated through an auction system. The process proved to be a
vast improvement of the dispute ridden pure first-come-first-served
approach, and has provided a strong foundation for growth for the .Asia
domain.

Original post by Domain Name News, The Domain Industry News, ICANN News, Registry News, Domainer News

ParkingPanel.com New Feed, New Features Launching Today

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:10:41 +0000

For many domainers, the launch of ParkingPanel.com in the fall of ‘06 was a welcome addition to the PPC space. The Oklahoma-based company saw a quick growth spurt with some large domain portfolio owners switching over to their system. Then in February ‘08 the plug was pulled on the Google feed syndication through Ask.com. Revenues reportedly bottomed out and signs of life from ParkingPanel were few and far between. Well, ParkingPanel is still alive and back with a new Google feed and reportedly they’re rolling out some new features as well.

A day ago I caught a snippet on ParkingPanel’s Roy Barrets Facebook page that piqued my interest. His profile read “Roy Barrett is ecstatic about the new ParkingPanel.com ad feed provider!”.

Here’s 3 features from the new features being announced that I found interesting :

New feed - Roy couldn’t tell me who (per contractual obligations) but it isn’t hard to figure out from domains on their DNS such as Planets.com or AT.com that they are using a Google feed. (I’m not good at figuring out which one. . . maybe someone can point that out to me in the comments.)

New Templates - They’re releasing new templates because of the new provider requirements (some of the old ones can be seen here). More notably they’re rolling out additional adult templates (check out pornfest.org for a sample)

1-Click Landers - Although it’s only well-suited for some domains, 1-click is always in high demand . This is a welcome addition for maximizing earnings

The news going out today from ParkingPanel can be seen after the jump :

ParkingPanel.com is proud to announce several long-awaited changes in our premium domain parking platform.

New Primary Feed Provider! New Autopilot System!
New Payment Processor! New Premium and Adult Templates!
1-click and 2-click Landing Pages! New MassPay Functionality!

Background

As you may know, ParkingPanel.com (and many others) lost our premium advertising feed in March of this year as part of contract negotiation between our ad network providers. Since this time, we’ve used a temporary solution that did not offer the global coverage or high relevance of the original provider. As a result of this, overall performance dropped significantly and did not effectively compete in the global marketplace of first-tier domain parking solutions. Many premium ParkingPanel.com clients moved domains to competing providers to further enforce global coverage.

New Primary Feed Provider

ParkingPanel.com is now proud to announce the inclusion of a new primary first-tier advertising feed provider. As many of our clients can attest, we have extensive experience in optimizing premium search feeds, and our entire team is very excited about the performance from our new advertising feed provider.

New Autopilot System

Since inception, ParkingPanel.com has been a pioneer in its launch of self-correcting, self-optimizing direct navigation services. With the new launch of ParkingPanel.com we have built improved internal processes to yield more revenue for your domains. Our system intelligently chooses the best ad provider, however we’ve now have gained much more insight through improved technology and advertising experience to help you yield more revenue from parked domain names. Our new Autopilot 2.0 technology is dramatically more improved than the original, and can track performance exponentially better than Autopilot 1.0.

New Templates / New Adult Templates

We are launching over a dozen new templates with the refresh of ParkingPanel.com. These templates will be filtered into our system after testing in the coming days and you will have access to these new templates. Our pro templates have ChromaAnalysis technology and you will be able to choose colors that match your domains, and all of our published features will be allowed in these templates. In addition, we will be launching several new adult templates to help your adult names achieve higher CTR and yields with the new launch.

1-click and 2-click Landing Pages

We now have 1-click landing pages on ParkingPanel.com. Depending on performance, ParkingPanel.com will decide whether 1-click or 2-click landers will do better with your domain. This decision is made depending on your traffic volume, relevance to ad inventories available, and a host of other processes we do best. As always, you can override our Autopilot system and choose your own landers.

New Payment Processing / MassPay Functionality

We had some initial quirks with our original ParkingPanel.com payment systems in regards to rollover earnings getting paid with monthly earnings. We have chosen a new platform for payment processing that includes major performance increases and will not charge you for PayPal payments received.

Come visit us!

The ParkingPanel.com team will be in New York for the TRAFFIC conference in Brooklyn September 23-26, 2008. All of our account managers will be on hand to answer any questions about the transition to our new provider. We are completely confident these changes will propel ParkingPanel.com to be the provider of choice for premium domain holders who choose to yield the best revenue from domain names.

Best Regards,

The ParkingPanel.com Team

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New ParkingPanel.com FAQ

Which domains work best on ParkingPanel.com?

The new ParkingPanel.com works great with all traffic. We have 1-click and 2-click landers, and depending on performance, ParkingPanel.com’s autopilot system will choose the best solution for your domain name. The very best performance comes from targeted vertical niches with very high traffic. If you have high traffic names, please contact your account manager with a list of high-traffic names to pre-optimize for best results on our system. Although our system is automated and will optimize names, our account managers have extensive training in ad network research and will do their best to pre-optimize names based on existing data we have from similar parked domains.

Where are my old templates?

Because of our primary feed provider change, we’ve had to make several changes to templates and launch completely new templates. For a sneak peek of templates to come, we have included some screenshots of templates that will be added in the coming days. Our autopilot system will choose the best templates for you, or you can pick and choose your own.

Do adult names still do well with you?

Yes, we do have good global coverage for adult traffic. We are launching several new adult templates and hope to do well with your adult traffic.

Will international traffic work well with ParkingPanel.com?

International traffic will now be restored as well as full language support. We now have the some of the best international coverage of domain parking companies and we’re among the highest in our revenue share with all of our upstream providers.

Original post by Adam Strong

.nz Registry August 2008 Newsletter Released

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:43:13 +0000

The .nz Registry Newsletter for August 2008 has just been released. This month it contains details about the following subjects:

Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) – Mediators and Experts
DNCL Board Meeting - Minutes Statistics (In July, the number of active .nz domain names increased from 336,305 to 339,612, a net increase of 3,307)
DNS Project Update

Read the newsletter in its entirety here (http://dnc.org.nz/content/aug_08_newsletter.pdf).

Source: Submission by DNC.org.nz Registry to DomainNews.com on August 27th, 2008 - Posted by Roland G. Buck - Chief Editor

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“Googler” is not a verb: UDRP decision

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:36:46 +0000

A registrant who registered 26 domain names with Wild West Domains,
Melbourne IT’s Internet Names Worldwide and GoDaddy containing
googler such as businessgoogler.com and cargoogler.com has lost a
UDRP complaint. The decision said the domain names were registered in
bad faith.

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Is Domain Parking Optimizing your Domain Portfolio Income Potential?

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:07:13 +0000

David Holland is a domain entrepreneur with 8 years of business experience. He has been writing about domaining for about 2 years and works from home. In an recent article written on August 19th, David G. Holland asked the question many domainers have been arguing about lately… Is Domain Parking optimizing your income potential from your domain name portfolio? . David’s opinion reflects the point of view that domain parking is dying and that domainers should reconsider their approach. But why?

Original post by Domain Name News, The Domain Industry News, ICANN News, Registry News, Domainer News

DeviceAtlas Mobile Device Database Moves to Community-Driven Preview Release

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:24:09 +0000

DUBLIN, Ireland and WASHINGTON, DC – Aug. 26, 2008 – dotMobi, the company behind dev.mobi – the world’s leading cross-platform mobile developer forum – today announced a preview release of DeviceAtlas, version 2.0. With this release, the award-winning DeviceAtlas moves from a read-only database to a read-write version with the introduction of automated phone capability tests.

The thousands of developers who are already using the DeviceAtlas database, available at deviceatlas.com, will now be able to perform real-time testing of their mobile phones by visiting deviceatlas.mobi on their phone Web browsers. Every time someone runs a test via deviceatlas.mobi (http://mtld.mobi/deviceatlas.com) , the results will be published in the DeviceAtlas database.

Original post by Domain Name News, The Domain Industry News, ICANN News, Registry News, Domainer News

And You Thought Your Domain Traffic Was Secure?

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:19:26 +0000

Via Wired (Via Wired:) :

Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency.

The tactic exploits the internet routing protocol BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) to let an attacker surreptitiously monitor unencrypted internet traffic anywhere in the world, and even modify it before it reaches its destination.

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IREG Andrew Miller, Mike Zapolin Help Former U.S President Bill Clinton To Acquire

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:17:29 +0000

TheConceptualist (http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/08/27/ireg-andrew-miller-mike-zapolin-help-former-us-president-bill-clinton-to-acquire/) by Sahar Sarid — Reprinted with permission — August 27, 2008

Original post by Domain Name News, The Domain Industry News, ICANN News, Registry News, Domainer News

Are you sick of your dead end job?

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:31:05 +0000

MyFinancialDirect

Founded in May 2008, My Financial Direct is a online business and information resource center designed to assist potential online or offline entrepreneurs in gathering the i…

Original post by default@goarticles.com (Mark Johnson)

Tumor Forces Domain Portfolio Liquidation Sale

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:58:54 +0000

Specialty Domains Inc.
has initiated the process of selling its portfolio of 1,050 Internet
domain names in response to its founder’s medical condition. David
Pierpoint, the company’s founder, is seeking prospective buyers of the
domain name portfolio that targets the dental, legal, medical, and real
estate industries.

Six months ago he began building a network of social-media based
marketing websites for attorneys, dentists, doctors, and real estate
professionals. Now, facing surgery and radiation therapy to treat a
reoccurrence of a rare tumor, business owner David Pierpoint has begun
contacting prospective buyers of the company’s portfolio that includes
1,000 Internet domain names.

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