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If
Parking is Dead How Come Another New Company Has Just
Entered the Space?
Plus, Major Domain Auctions Will Highlight Four
Conferences This Month
Parking
revenueshave fallen so far over the past
couple of years that some have gone as far as to
declare that form of domain monetization dead.
I wouldn't go that far, but there is no denying
that parking has become a critically ill
patient. In this environment, no one would dream
of starting up another parking company, right? I
would have thought so, but I would have been
wrong.
ParksDot.com,
based in Great Britain, plans to open
their doors for beta testing on August 25th.
One of the company founders, Kerr Gracie,
claims they have a platform that could re-ignite
flagging interest in domain name parking.
"Domain
parking has
become very stagnant and boring over the last
few years and not very enticing for domain name
owners with boring landing pages that don’t
give justice to the potential of a domain name
that has a lot of traffic," Gracie said.
"ParksDot.com offers an opportunity for users
to create and manage landing pages, making them fully
customizable and pleasing to the eye when
landing on a parked domain name, encouraging
better click through rates. Users can also enter
their own meta tags and descriptions to get
indexed in major search engines and drive
targeted traffic to their domains."
Kerr
Gracie
ParksDot.com
Turkel
Alizadeh, the head of operations for
ParksDot.com added, “We have a
dedicated team of designers and an
excellent marketing team so we have a
lot of
ideas we can bounce around and we are
adding different dimensions on a daily
basis to improve domain parking for our
users. We strive to give our users what
they want and like to listen to their
ideas, above all we believe in great
customer support."
Gabby
Khrmon
ParksDot.com
Another
member of the ParksDot.com team,
coder Gabby Khrmon, said,
"We are integrating lots of
new features that the other
parking companies out there
don’t have on their platform
at the moment, and with my
experience in coding I can
implement new ideas quickly to
keep one step ahead of the
competition."
Turkel
Alizadeh
ParksDot.com
Kerr
added, "Gabby is a
great asset to the company in
driving ideas forward an
implementing them."
During
beta testing, ParksDot.com is
offering users 90% of
parking revenue. If you would
like to sign up and try out the
beta testing module you can do
so here.
A
string of five
consecutive domain conferences
gets underway Wednesday
(August 18) with the DOMAINfest
New York Power
Networking Day. Of course, where
there are domain conferences,
there are domain auctions
and it looks like DOMAINfest New
York will have one of the year's
best. The catalog includes Stocks.com,
Rate.com, Cable.com,
BigApple.com, Physicians.com
and LocalNews.com, to
name just a few. You can check
out their full catalog and
register to bid here.
The
two MeetDomainers
conferences coming up in Sopot,
Poland next week (August
19-21) and Manchester,
England the
following week (August 27-28)
have also released their auction
information. Both live events
will offer online bidding.
You can get details on the Sopot
auction here
and the Manchester auction here.
T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Dublin
(August 24-25) will also
be a key runner in this
month's conference and
auction marathon. Their
live auction
will be held on Wednesday,
August 25th starting
at 3pm local tine in
Dublin, Ireland. Latonas.com
will handle the sale
with Marina.com, MakeMoney.com,
WorkOnline.com and
Dominatrix.com
among the domains
scheduled to go on the
block.
That
will do it for us today,
have a great weekend and
we'll see you back here
Monday with more of the
Lowdown on what's
happening in the domain
industry.
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