{"id":2227,"date":"2012-02-27T13:51:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T18:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2012-02-27T14:43:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T19:43:45","slug":"sedo-and-name-com-whos-telling-porkies-about-parking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/sedo-and-name-com-whos-telling-porkies-about-parking\/","title":{"rendered":"Sedo and Name.com: Who’s telling porkies about parking?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago I let one of my domains – Greek.in – cross its expiration date.<\/p>\n

The domain is with Name.com and I simply “ignored” the reminders on a busy week.<\/p>\n

While in the process of renewing it, I noticed that the domain was displaying a standard Sedo ad page, with the minimal, greenish text against a white background. There was no contact information regarding a sale on that page.<\/p>\n

Checking the DNS I noticed that it was still that of Voodoo.com<\/strong><\/a> where I park some of my domains. I assumed that some type of DNS wizardry was occurring in the background, so I contacted Name.com support.<\/p>\n

I was told that per the terms of use, Name.com reserves the right to park and monetize my traffic while I don’t renew my domain.<\/p>\n

Since the domain was already listed for sale in my Sedo account, it was obvious that Name.com was forwarding it to a landing account of their own at Sedo.<\/p>\n

After contacting my account manager at Sedo I was told that all URL forwarding has been ended for Sedo customers, at the request of Google. To use Sedo parking and monetize traffic, one must use the Sedo DNS.<\/p>\n

So what’s going on here? Is Sedo giving “elite” customers such as Name.com a different ad channel to monetize domains and pile them up onto one account? Or is Name.com oblivious of the fact that this method of forwarding reaps no monies from traffic?<\/p>\n

Within 4 hours of renewing my domain, it was pointing back to Voodoo.com but the mystery still remains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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