Comments on: Registrars parking your sub-domain for you http://www.domaineditorial.com/2007/06/03/registrars-parking-your-sub-domain-for-you/ Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:15:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Dotster in trouble? » Domain Name News http://www.domaineditorial.com/2007/06/03/registrars-parking-your-sub-domain-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-227 Dotster in trouble? » Domain Name News Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:19:21 +0000 http://www.domaineditorial.com/archives/2007/06/03/registrars-parking-your-sub-domain-for-you/#comment-227 [...] Rumors that domain registrar Dotster is for sale have been around for several years now in the market. Now new rumors have surfaced on ThreadWatch saying that Dotster is in financial trouble and has started laying off high paid staff. Maybe it’s just the sign of a restructuring though. Dotster has a large user base and the company has bought many other registrars over the years, including DotRegistrar, which went out of business a while back. In October of last year, they closed their aftermarket site, NameWinner and transferred most of their dropping names to SnapNames instead. Their name also popped up in the news in June, when it was publicly pointed out that they will “wildcard-park” subdomains of your names, if you use their DNS. [...] [...] Rumors that domain registrar Dotster is for sale have been around for several years now in the market. Now new rumors have surfaced on ThreadWatch saying that Dotster is in financial trouble and has started laying off high paid staff. Maybe it’s just the sign of a restructuring though. Dotster has a large user base and the company has bought many other registrars over the years, including DotRegistrar, which went out of business a while back. In October of last year, they closed their aftermarket site, NameWinner and transferred most of their dropping names to SnapNames instead. Their name also popped up in the news in June, when it was publicly pointed out that they will “wildcard-park” subdomains of your names, if you use their DNS. [...]

]]> By: Pablo http://www.domaineditorial.com/2007/06/03/registrars-parking-your-sub-domain-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Pablo Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:30:33 +0000 http://www.domaineditorial.com/archives/2007/06/03/registrars-parking-your-sub-domain-for-you/#comment-226 GoDaddy defaults to a wildcard DNS entry on parked pages. GoDaddy defaults to a wildcard DNS entry on parked pages.

]]> By: Frank Michlick http://www.domaineditorial.com/2007/06/03/registrars-parking-your-sub-domain-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-225 Frank Michlick Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:20:27 +0000 http://www.domaineditorial.com/archives/2007/06/03/registrars-parking-your-sub-domain-for-you/#comment-225 Thank you for your comments, Cambio. Most parking companies will also allow you to park subdomains, you just have to make sure that you have a wildcard dns entry (often "*.domain.com") that directs all the domains to the parking provider. If you use the parking companies' DNS this should be the default. Unfortunately I am not aware of any parking company that optimizes the search terms based on the subdomain, which could be quite useful in some cases. /Frank M Thank you for your comments, Cambio.

Most parking companies will also allow you to park subdomains, you just have to make sure that you have a wildcard dns entry (often “*.domain.com”) that directs all the domains to the parking provider. If you use the parking companies’ DNS this should be the default.

Unfortunately I am not aware of any parking company that optimizes the search terms based on the subdomain, which could be quite useful in some cases.

/Frank M

]]> By: play http://www.domaineditorial.com/2007/06/03/registrars-parking-your-sub-domain-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-224 play Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:27:12 +0000 http://www.domaineditorial.com/archives/2007/06/03/registrars-parking-your-sub-domain-for-you/#comment-224 I can attest to that. I got a domain on wwdomains.com I had my domain pointing to a parking company using wwdomains default servers. One day I did a search on search engines; guess what I found? Since it was a expired domain I cought, it had minor traffic from previous website and the previous website had a couple of pages on subdomains; happens that those subdomains were indexed by the search engines and received more traffic than the domain itself. I clicked on the link and Surprise! The registrar was monetizing a parked page all on their own. Yes they are doing it. Specially on previously built websites. Question.- Which parking companies let you park subdomains? Cambio I can attest to that.
I got a domain on wwdomains.com
I had my domain pointing to a parking company using wwdomains default servers.
One day I did a search on search engines; guess what I found?
Since it was a expired domain I cought, it had minor traffic from previous website and the previous website had a couple of pages on subdomains; happens that those subdomains were indexed by the search engines and received more traffic than the domain itself.
I clicked on the link and Surprise! The registrar was monetizing a parked page all on their own.
Yes they are doing it. Specially on previously built websites.
Question.- Which parking companies let you park subdomains?
Cambio

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