Interesting summary of business models on the web By the end of this month, I should get payment from at least 15 different companies for very different products and services and I hope to increase it to at least 30 by the end of the year. For an online business, it is very important to [...]
Dark Blue Sea Financials There seems to be a 50% decline in parking revenue. I had applied to Fabulous a few months , but they had rejected my application, saying that my domains were not of good quality. (most are reg fee domains) . Since then I have experimented with almost all advertising and monetization [...]
Google Domain parking changes So Google is stopping its feed for domains. They seem to have been working on this for some time, I have some parked domains . Based on the replies I have got, the parking company seems to have been monitoring conversions very closely, saying that some domains which earn 5$ + [...]
Domain tasting will end There seems to have been a reduction in domain tasting over the past few days. Most of the tasting is now done on a small scale. Dynadot was offering free domain tasting with bulk accounts, they stopped all deletions of domains for some time. Their customers started protesting, so they re [...]
3 months back , some one wanted my *om.in domain, today I got a follow up mail “Need www.*om.in — pls give me you quotation Hi * did you thought about the plan for giving me *om.in pls feel free to quote me” Do they think I will ever consider such an inquiry? I am [...]
Google allowing other webmasters to damage your site . Have been a victim of online sabotage for so long, that I have learnt to ignore it. If others cannot predict your future actions, there is little they can do. Web18 buys In.com - The Whois data shows that the domain data was last updated on Feb 12, 2008 (as [...]
Blown away - the story of Geosign . One of the things I learnt while working offline – never depend on a single vendor or revenue source. It may be more convenient , but you do not know what will happen in future. Another relevant post - Domain revenue disappearing - when every thing is fine, it [...]
Adsense Decreases Does Not Mean I Should Settle For Less . That is the problem dealing with large companies, you are just another number. I have diversified my revenues to some extent, by this year end Adsense should hopefully be a small part of my total revenues. It is always better to work with smaller companies, you [...]
Google clamp down on publisher adsense “so called” minisites . Interesting post, I had guessed this in December, so I have been exploring other options. I first made money online by selling directly to my customers, and they still are willing to pay. Earlier I would do every thing manually which was very time consuming, now I [...]
Threats to the Domain Name Industry I have spent a lot of time studying the domain industry and find that most revenues seem to be from parking or sales. Parking revenues are from only a few sources and a policy change can adversely affect you. Last year, I spent a lot of time experimenting to [...]