{"id":1415,"date":"2010-11-22T10:24:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T15:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2010-11-22T10:24:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T15:24:37","slug":"i-love-you-parked-but-i-just-have-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/i-love-you-parked-but-i-just-have-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"I love you, Parked, but I just have to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me start by stating the Parked.com guys are stellar and that their platform, including the customizable templates are superb.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just that their advertising channels suck right now and I&#8217;m not willing to stick it out until the situation improves.<\/p>\n<p>It all started with the notorious rating that Yahoo imposed, which they then expanded to categorize domains &#8211; and often block them from Yahoo.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo actively tags domains in the following categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<blockquote>\n<li>Banned<\/li>\n<li>Trademark<\/li>\n<li>Quality Block (all TLDs that are not com\/net\/org)<\/li>\n<li>Controversial<\/li>\n<li>Restricted<\/li>\n<li>Adult<\/li>\n<li>Alcohol<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have to point out that the 4-5 banned domains that Yahoo inexplicably tagged as such, Parked wasn&#8217;t able to have them reinstated; the same domains exist in Google without any problems whatsoever. As for the so-called trademarks, both my <a href=\"http:\/\/Parthenon.info\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Parthenon.info<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/Topolowa.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Topolowa.com<\/strong><\/a> are geo-domains. The &#8220;Controversial&#8221; rating was earned by domains such as <a href=\"http:\/\/ViolentSports.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ViolentSports.com<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ClonedMan.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ClonedMan.com<\/strong><\/a> which effectively displays the type of censorship and pseudo-ethics that define Yahoo&#8217;s policies.<\/p>\n<p>So the bottom line is that Yahoo&#8217;s policies are what they are &#8211; in my opinion, fascistic and outright ridiculous; if <a href=\"http:\/\/Tavern.org\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tavern.org<\/strong><\/a> is an &#8220;alcohol&#8221; domain that receives lower PPC from Yahoo then I&#8217;d rather keep it at Sedo until the Yahoo masterminds stop drinking cool-aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me start by stating the Parked.com guys are stellar and that their platform, including the customizable templates are superb. 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