The New AfterNIC Parking: Thumbs Up!

Remember back in the 90's when Microsoft had it's Schedule Plus organizing software? I never liked it. It was cumbersome and clunky, and I actually preferred to write my contacts and appointments down with good old fashioned pen and paper.

Then Microsoft came out with Outlook and all was forgiven. Today, I don't even know how I'd function without Outlook. Powerful, intuitive and efficient: right up my alley!

If you compare AfterNIC's new parking program to it's previous system, it would be like comparing Outlook to Schedule Plus.

I had tried parking a few names on AfterNIC over a year ago and was not at all impressed. The earnings were dismal and the ads were generally off-topic (probably due to a small advertiser base.) I had also tried SEDO's parking and was disappointed there as well: pitiful earnings, and I never seemed to make any money referring new members to SEDO, even though I had referral links posted on a lot of my sites. With AfterNIC, the pay-per-click (PPC) earnings were poor but I would at least earn some revenue with their affiliate program (referring new members, commissions on domain sales, etc.)

Zoom forward to 2005: AfterNIC's new parking program is first class, in my opinion. I can only assume that they acknowledged the seriousness of their advertiser base problem, so they solved it by partnering with other parking specialists, companies loaded with advertisers, specifically Fabulous and Domain Sponsor. When AfterNIC announced the revamping of their parking program, I moved a handful of domains to their parking system as a test. So far, I've been impressed overall: the ads have been right on target 99% of the time, and as a result the earnings have been very nice. And I'm still earning extra commissions with their affiliate program (click here for more details on making money via AfterNIC parking.) I am now in the process of moving a pretty large chunk of my domain portfolio over to AfterNIC parking.

So, why use AfterNIC parking if you can just signup with Fabulous or Domain Sponsor? The extra affiliate earnings, of course! The additional affiliate earnings can be significant if you refer a decent volume of new members and domain sales to AfterNIC. Why earn just PPC when you can earn PPC + AfterNIC affiliate commissions?

My domaining and parking experience with AfterNIC has been further enhanced by their improved domain management interface. The process of setting up parking for my domains is now easier and more efficient than ever, and I've noticed an improvement in server performance as well. Support? Yes, it's there, and it's good. In my experience, the good folks @ AfterNIC have gone beyond the call of duty with their support in the past. And you know how it is: you don't forget it when someone helps you out of a jam.

What I find a bit annoying about AfterNIC is that they sometimes go offline on weekends late at night. I'm a night owl, and I often work on weekends, so this can cramp my style. Not a big deal, really. Every large, database driven website has to go down for maintenance sometimes. Taking the server down late at night on a weekend is certainly practical, albeit somewhat annoying for vampires like me.

Can you earn more by parking at SEDO? Depends on the names you intend to park, I think. I've been reading lots of stories of folks earning $3-5$ per click with poker-related domain over @ SEDO. Maybe the poker related earnings are just as good with AfterNIC, but I can't say for now as I don't have enough data. I have very recently moved my www.InternetPoker.cc domain name over to AfterNIC so I'm waiting to see how that goes.


Feel free to post a comment about your parking experience with AfterNIC or SEDO. Thanks!

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