There was a great discussion in one of the threads on NamePros that I felt almost compelled to join in. It was whether domain monetization is dead or not. My reply was essentially, no it’s not; it’s just changed.

What I find surprising is the number of domain investors that expect a different outcome by doing exactly the same thing. I hate to rain on your parade, but domain parking has moved on and become domain monetization. What’s the difference you may ask?

Domain monetization is ensuring that your valuable domain traffic is being competitively bid upon by the many, many global advertising networks…..not just one. Improvements in technology to access a multiplicity of advertising networks is a natural progression of a great industry.

The stats that I produce and comment upon each week are an indication of just how healthy and vibrant domain monetization is. No it’s not dead and as today’s stats testify, it’s alive and well.

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This week’s update is full of great data and statistics that will tantalize as well as inform domain monetization investors about what is really happening in the wider industry. I find myself looking forward to creating the data each week as it gives me a snapshot of what’s really going on.

One highlight from this week’s video is the continued surge in the Google normalized RPM. When you compare where they’ve come from earlier in the year it is really quite astounding their willingness to pay more and more for quality domain traffic.

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In this “Conversations” video I reminisce with Howard and Barbara Neu about the early days of the domain industry, TRAFFIC conferences and what they are doing now. It was a real journey down memory lane for the three of us as we recall some of the highlights of the various events that transpired more than a decade ago.

Howard and Barbara are widely regarded as the heart and soul of the domain industry and together with their renown business partner, Rick Schwartz, they brought domain investing into the mainstream. It’s through efforts by great people like them that domain investing is what it is today.

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Out of all the COVID-19 videos this is the most critical as it provides insight into the new quarter’s online advertising spend. This directly drives earnings for any domain investor that is looking for pay-per-click or other forms of online advertising for their revenue.

A number of news articles in February suggested that both Google and Facebook were concerned about the online advertising industry and the impact that COVID-19 was going to have on it. To date, the numbers have looked strong and the big worry was around the new quarters advertising budgets.

We now have the first week of the quarter’s actual data and the results are both surprising as well as intriguing. I hope you find the information in this series of videos useful for your business and that they help you make decisions about what to do next in this difficult time.

Please don’t hesitate to leave any comments and questions that you may have about the videos. I look forward to hearing from you.

I was reading an article on TheDomains.com about domain traffic monetisation and the comment list ended up being filled with doom and gloom. I found the comments tended to spring from domainers harkening back to the “good old days” when raking in money from their traffic was easy. Many of them also showed a complete lack of understanding about how monetisation has moved on from the “good old days”.

I will once again say upfront that I’m one of the founders of ParkLogic and we monetise domain traffic but in a very different manner from ANY other provider. We work with almost all of the traditional parking companies and many of the global advertising networks. This gives us a unique perspective on the industry, and I believe provides us with some authority to speak on the subject of monetisation.

I would first like to tackle the common misconception that parking providers are thieves. Contrary to popular belief, we find the parking providers are not fraudulent and stealing your money. They are often as in the dark as you are as to why a domain’s earnings have fallen apart or why a clawback was applied to your account. Google is pulling all of strings and they don’t share squat with their partners.

Before you go accusing your account manager of theft think twice. They are actually your best friend who represent you to their larger organisation. I’ve heard of some account managers being treated despicably and it’s about time some bad domainers act a little more professionally. Thank goodness most domain investors ARE professional in their approach.

That all being said, have some parking providers attempted nefarious behaviours in the past? Absolutely! In fact, on the whole these companies are no longer in business. They’ve either been caught out by their customers or partners for doing the wrong thing and have now been expunged from the industry. This means the companies that have survived are generally pretty good.

Now let me comment on the state of play of domain monetisation. Is it dead? Nope. Is it dead for some people? Yes. The major reason why domain investors believe that domain monetisation is dead is because they keep on doing the same thing they always have. Go figure?

Let’s think about this for a bit. Many domain investors complain about declining revenues and then do nothing about it. They may change parking providers but that’s just like changing which cabin you’re going to sleep in on the Titanic.