When I met the Parked.com crew during TRAFFIC 2008 in Orlando, I had the opportunity to engage with some of the best people in the domain monetization business.
It was clear that Parked rocked during those times and the company did remarkably well; the people that worked for Parked were top notch and experienced professionals.
With Parked.com apparently gone from service, I’m left with sadness about the demise of a company that later on declined in performance, due to its use of Yahoo feeds that imposed the dreaded TQ domain rating.
As far as I know, the now former Parked employees are either at Domain Apps that acquired the Parked.com brand and infrastructure, or working at other companies.
It was great knowing you guys, I wish I had kept my Parked.com t-shirt but I donated it along with other clothing before Christmas.
So you guys were right about the dead of parking revenue. I read about it everyday since I learned about domaining in 2010. When poor uncle join the party you know the boat is about to sink. Just like all stock I had bought. If I am in, it will blow.
I have never parked any of my domain names. If I get a good domain name a install a wordpress on it and add some few articles. Of course it costs a bit more but there is chance for SE traffic not just type-in traffic which usually doesn’t convert anyways.
But they failed because there were no advertisers or just because people stopped clicking their ads due to changes in their parking pages?