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Written by Whizzbang   
Friday, 12 August 2011 17:22

criminalA friend of mine received the following email the other day and it clearly offers BIG dollars for accounts in a number of parking companies. You'll notice that even my own company, ParkLogic made this hit parade! For those of you that are congratulating yourselves because you are not on the list…..don’t worry your name’s on other emails.

Subject: Domain Parking Joint Venture

Hi Dear Domain parking accounts owners,

I am writing to know whether we can have an opportunity to do a domain parking account Joint Venture cooperation together please.

Please allow me to introduce myself a bit. It is XXXXXXX from XXXXXXXXXX LL C which based in China. I hope this email gets you right. our company has been working as a traffic provider in this field for 5 years and achieve a great success with most of the parking companies. Now there are 50 people working in our company as a professional team with the commission of providing best valued quality and trustworthy service. More than 40 stuff members have been allocated to do the tech work to maintain a great TQ score with every account that are been running. The high responsibility for our clients and supporters and the great service has earned us with a great reputation.

We are also happy to know that you have a huge portfolio of domains in hand and have a lot of domain parking accounts with some of the domain name monetization platforms.

We will be greatly honored if we can have a client like.
If you do not mind, I am happy to tell you the revenue amount we can generate with most of the domain parking systems per month as follow:
Hotkeys.com 20.000--40,000 USD per month
DDC.com 15,000--30,000 USD per month
Hitfarm.com 20,000--40,000 USD per month
Trafficz.com 10,000--20,000 USD per month
Parklogic.om 15,000--30,000 USD per month
And the revenue amount can be increased a lot if we can add more domains to the accounts.

Could you please kindly schedule a time and reply to me? I am listening to all of your suggestion and proposal. We can schedule a phone call to talk about the details if you like. Please reply to me no matter you are interested or not. We will really appreciate that.

Looking forward to your reply.

Scams and pillaging like this just continue to be a feature of the domain industry. You’ve got to ask yourself…..if the quality of the traffic is so high why do they need to buy an account by burning your reputation? Easy answer…..the TQ may be artificially high for a time but the conversion for advertisers is just not there.

For some reason some scumbags like this still assume that it’s OK to burn someone else’s reputation because they’ve already practiced scorched earth on their own. The sad thing is that many of these people come from China and cast a VERY bad light on the domain owners from China that try and do the right thing.

If you’ve received emails like this then feel free to send them through to me. If you’re tempted to take the emailer up on their offer then may I suggest that it would be better to destroy your conscience, ethics and reputation in another industry….as you will be caught. I wonder if it’s about time that a criminal prosecution is conducted and someone is made an example of…..

In the meantime, I’ve got my creative juices flowing on how to solve this problem for the industry once and for all. I just can’t believe that so many companies that have lost so much money have put up with this garbage for so long. Stay tuned!

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china indeed
written by stc, August 14, 2011
IMHO Most of our asian friends that are in domaining speak better English. Not all, but most. I can smell a scam a mile away so just for fun I parked a .cn name that has a little traffic to see what happens. So far, 3 months, nothing.

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