Change of tactics

[Data Glasses]

Interesting to note that the parking company bodis have now deleted the 'inquiry section' of parked domain pages, instead now if you wish to buy a domain it has to be through their system for a 5% sales fee, the link is on the parked page ..... i wonder if will become a trend with all parking companies. At least it advertises the the price of the domain. Unsure if they are doing for cctlds ?

 

[Philip Littlewood]

Interesting to note that the parking company bodis have now deleted the 'inquiry section' of parked domain pages, instead now if you wish to buy a domain it has to be through their system for a 5% sales fee, the link is on the parked page ..... i wonder if will become a trend with all parking companies. At least it advertises the the price of the domain. Unsure if they are doing for cctlds ?

They don't even seem to support .com.au - unless I am missing something!

 

[Data Glasses]

They don't even seem to support .com.au - unless I am missing something!

Yes i have domains parked with them, example is www.insured.net.au , i guess the point of the post is they have concluded there is a sales commission to made rather than just passing along the domain owners contact info and only making money off the ppc aspect

 

[findtim]

with all due respect and i have no parked domains but 5% to me seems a fair fee for a sale, i mean you are using their system..... yes they are getting % on clicks but at the end of the day if you sell a domain then they are doing some work to make that happen for you.

happy to fight you on this JUST so i learn you side of the coin

tim

 

[johno69]

if you sell a domain then they are doing some work to make that happen for you.

What work are they doing? I'll build you a one page terrible looking site with a buy now link for 5%.

You can even keep all the adsense revenue yourself.

 

[findtim]

What work are they doing? I'll build you a one page terrible looking site with a buy now link for 5%.

You can even keep all the adsense revenue yourself.

fair call, i'll ponder that but i'm off to bed
tim

 

[Data Glasses]

with all due respect and i have no parked domains but 5% to me seems a fair fee for a sale, i mean you are using their system..... yes they are getting % on clicks but at the end of the day if you sell a domain then they are doing some work to make that happen for you.

happy to fight you on this JUST so i learn you side of the coin

tim

nothing to fight about, i am just sharing an observation that a parking company has changed it business model and posed the question will more parking companies go down this road as ppc revenue drops off. If it means i sell a name it's all good. Unsure if they are doing the cctld thing as the transfers are more complicated, sedo charge a few hundred more for a cctld sale due to this fact.

 

[snoopy]

Interesting to note that the parking company bodis have now deleted the 'inquiry section' of parked domain pages, instead now if you wish to buy a domain it has to be through their system for a 5% sales fee, the link is on the parked page ..... i wonder if will become a trend with all parking companies. At least it advertises the the price of the domain. Unsure if they are doing for cctlds ?

I doubt it, unless they are actually handling inquires etc then they'd aren't doing anything for that 5%. Too much competition for others to follow in my view.

 

[Data Glasses]

happy to fight you on this JUST so i learn you side of the coin

tim

Please note i will only fight you if you are wearing your spiderman suit at the time

 

[Drop.com.au]

We provide tools for you to put a "For Sale" link or banner on a Fabulous.com parking page free of charge, all enquiries get sent directly to the owner.

As I've said before and I'll say again, this is by far the best way of generating sales leads - We get about 80% of our sales via a "For Sale" banner traffic.

Andrew