Above.com recently announced a milestone achievement. They are happy to share that they have now serviced over 1.2 million parked domain names. Beyond their milestone, Above.com was recently awarded Best New Monetizing Solution of 2009 during T.R.A.F.F.I.C. in Brooklyn, New York.
I congratulate them on both achievements, that’s great news.
Let’s face it here, many of us have seen a decline in our parking revenues, but there is still money to be made through parking our domains. It’s a matter of tweaking where we’re parking and Above.com gets that particular concept, which makes them a formidable player in the industry.
They gave a great explanation of how their strategy works. They are basically supported by 15 different parking companies, which allows for some diversity in your choices as to where to park your domain. Some parking companies do better with specific types of domains than others. Above.com understands this and helps you analyze your names to find the best fit, thus maximizing your chances at getting better parking revenue. There are other benefits to using their tools, such as:
- Traffic and revenue stats are conveniently centralized
- Detailed analytics
- Keep your existing parking accounts
- Best of all, it’s FREE!!
This is a tool worth checking out! To get a more in depth explanation of what they do and how it works visit them at Above.com.
I tried them for about two months with no noticable difference in income up or down.
Plus, they take traffic for their own in-house ppc program which they pay out on to you, but they don’t let on which domains they are taking traffic from.
Also, lets not forget they get all your stats from all the parking co’s you let them have access to and can scrub your stats.
Can you trust them? I don’t know for sure either way. It did not work out for me though. Maybe someone else would like to comment?
I trust them!
Hi Belmassio,
Correction on this point:
“which domains they are taking traffic from”
This is in the reports section. You can clearly see which domains are making revenues on the maximizer service.
We have also found that users do not ask us for help or assistance. We are here to help and there are many things one can do to get the most out of the above.com service.
Such as make sure that you have more than 1 or 2 parking account, ideally 2-3 Google based PLUS 2 Yahoo based. The larger your portfolio the more different parking accounts you should have.
Make sure that every single domain you own is added to every single parking account you have. Many domainers fail to do this and this results in drops in revenues.
Simply put, contact us and we can help and guide you to get the most out of your parked domains.
The concept they offer is something that the industry has needed for a while.
Whilst I prefer to develop my domains there will always be a percentage of my porfolio that I need to leave parked at some point.
That being so, anything that takes the pain and hassle out of optimising (finding the right provider – no, they are not all born equal) for my domains is worth a shot in my book.
Thank you for the infomative comment Belmassio you saved me the bother of signing up. Do not like the access part, Thank you for the info.
Regarding access to Domain Stats, every parking company that you have parked with, have access to your domains stats, also when you wish to try a different parking service they ask for your domain stats as well.
Keep in mind that the stats are needed for the optimizer to work, without knowing what a domain is making, there is no way for our system to test and check if the domain is making more at a different parking company. So domain stats are used to establish benchmarks.
We fully understand that this service is not for everyone, but accounts that do not see an increase are due to not being fully and effectively setup, not due to the service it self.
Cheers
David