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As
you no doubt have heard by now, we
recently announced the sales of our Aftermarket
domain marketplace and our Agreed
online escrow platform. In parallel
with those sales, we will be
discontinuing the TrafficZ domain
parking and monetization service as
of December 31, 2014.
In
order to facilitate a smooth and
seamless transition for you, our
valued clients, we recommend that
you explore alternative monetization
providers and options for your
domain assets. Many of our friends
in the industry provide excellent
domain management and monetization
solutions, so we're confident that
you'll find a suitable partner in no
time.
Regardless
of what you decide, though, please
make sure to update your nameservers
by 12:00 AM PST on next Wednesday,
December 31, 2014, after which time
we will no longer be serving ads
from our upstream providers.
On
behalf of the entire TrafficZ team,
we'd like to thank you for your
loyalty and support over the years
(since 2002!!). And, as always, we
wish you luck and continued success
in all of your future endeavors.
Cheers,
and Happy Holidays,
Ammar Kubba & Kevin Vo
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TrafficZ's
Kevin Vo and Ammar Kubba in
2007 |
Ammar
& Kevin were profiled
in our October 2007 Cover
Story at a time
that proved to be the
"golden age" of pay
per click domain parking. In
recent years, parking revenue
has been decimated as
upstream providers (especially
Google) began keeping
almost all of the income from
advertisers for
themselves. Parking revenue
from our own domains is now less
than 20% of what is was in
2007 and many others have
reported a similar free fall
in earnings. Like some of them
we stopped parking many
domains with traffic all
together, opting |
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to
send those visitors to our own
detailed "domain for
sale" pages as
aftermarket sales became a
bigger and more important
revenue stream than PPC. |
The
combination of massive revenue
declines and departing clients has
made it a tough environment for
parking companies, resulting in
decisions by some to sell off the
business (as Oversee did in
sending DomainSponsor to RookMedia)
or shut down all together as
TrafficZ and other once key players
like Parked.com have now
done.
With
their divestitures of TrafficZ,
Agreed.com (sold to Escrow.com)
and Aftermarket.com (sold to Igloo.com),
Thought Convergence can now
concentrate on their more profitable
services like DomainTools.com
and promising new
ventures. |
