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Please excuse the rant that I'm about to have but if like me you love the domain industry then I'm sure you'll enjoy it! I never thought that I’d put the words “domainer” and “scumbags” in the same sentence but it’s long overdue. There are a whole lot of domainers that are great people and there are a lot of scumbags…..so a message to all the good guys, beware!
 Our industry that I love and cherish is currently being inundated with the lowest of the low and the problem is growing worse not better. The practices of these people have moved from impacted our wallets to stealing who we are and I thought that it was about time that I exposed some of their practices.
1. I have 200 domains which do $300 per day with good TQ traffic. Sure you do….I believe it, NOT! It just so happens that the majority of these domains are .infos and your IP address says that your from China while your street address in the account application is LA. The traffic is garbage and I don’t want any of it since it will directly lower the revenue line of good customers.
2. We’ve recently had a lot of “good domainers” apply for a whole lot of ParkLogic accounts. Why do I know they’re good? When you’ve been in the industry as long as I have then you make a lot of personal friends and when a personal friend signs up for an account rather then just having a chat with you then you know something is up. One scumbag signed up with all of my friends personal details and then progressively began to steal their reputation and identity. Sadly, I couldn’t quite get all the correct details of the thief out of them before they realised that I was collecting data to hopefully pass onto my friend’s lawyers!
3. I want to buy a parking account and I’ll pay anything up to $2,000. You’ve got to ask why would anyone bother buying a parking account? Why not just sign-up yourself? The reason why is that these people are such rabid scumbags that they’ve developed a reputation amongst all the parking companies so that that they are now individually completely blocked from signing up or even their whole nation is blocked! They’re now getting other people to sign-up for them and they then pump their garbage traffic down the pipe to destroy good domainers value.
4. I can manage click through rate to whatever you want. Yes, I did have someone tell me this. This is “bot” traffic and is fraud, fraud, fraud! This is stealing from advertisers and WILL NOT be tolerated. I’m always amazed that these scumbags spend huge amounts of time developing more sophisticated ways to try and “beat” the system when if they applied their technical skills to what is good then they’d probably be rich by now.
My company, ParkLogic is a fraudsters worst nightmare. Why do I say this? For a start, anyone that doesn’t completely fill out the sign-up form are immediately rejected. Secondly, they must pass an interview process that asks some very specific questions (some of these questions would surprise you). Around 98% of potential new customers are eliminated at this stage
Thirdly, we have our own anti-fraud checks in place that are being continuously run across accounts. Lastly, because we work with every major monetisation partner a scumbag has to also pass EVERYONE’s anti-fraud checks! If you fail on ANYONE then you FAIL on them ALL and your account is terminated. So go and pump your garbage traffic down someone else’s pipe.
So a notice to all scumbags out there that you are now on notice. The parking industry and good domain owners are sick to death of your practices and many of us are now beginning to co-operate on sharing information on your new “tricks”.
To all good domain owners. If you know of anyone that is lowering your revenue with their garbage traffic then it’s about time we expose them. The industry needs to be cleaned up for all our sakes so let’s work together to improve traffic for advertisers so that they are so hungry that they will pay more for the gold that we own!
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