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Parked Eliminates Parking Arbitrage - Yahoo Puts An End To Arbitrage
February 12, 2008
Received an e-mail stating that Parked.com will no longer accept parking arbitrage. Parked was the only provider I knew of that never really said “no” to arbitrage; seems that Yahoo! no longer wants to tolerate it. I’ve never done arbitrage, but I’m sure there have been people making decent amount of money doing it. Ran into a couple Parked.com parked pages in the last few days that were doing arbitrage with Google AdWords.
Here’s a copy of the e-mail:
Dear Parked.com customers,
We were notified today by Yahoo that all Yahoo based parking companies, including Parked.com, must begin enforcing the no arbitrage/no paid traffic general provision. As a reminder, Section 2 Subsection g. in the Parked.com Terms of Service states:
“All other types of traffic including bought traffic, traffic driven by PPC campaigns, traffic directed from hyperlinks are not permitted. If your traffic originates from any sources other than type-in and search engine traffic, you will not be entitled to payment as per this Agreement. Regular checks are carried out and we reserve the right to suspend any domain from our Service at any time, on our sole discretion, if we reasonably believe that you have violated this Agreement; for example, if we suspect that the traffic on your domain is bought, generated or redirected in any way that contravenes these terms and conditions.”
For more information please see http://www.parked.com/tos/.
Accordingly, all arbitrage must stop effective 1pm PST on Thursday, February 14, 2008. Even though arbitrage will no longer be allowed, all accounts will still be paid.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact your account manager.
We thank you for your business and continued support.
Tons of domain parking news recently, huh?
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ya they screwed me real good. Not only did I get immeditaely deleted for using arb but I also didnt get a warning even tho I was with them for more than 5 years.
Arb in my opinion is a tricky situation. You get all these companies and these ads and programs going to your sites, since arb was allowed and then you have less than 1 day to track back to ALL the places you went to and stop the advertising, stop the people (u cant stop people btw), to stop the programs, delete the links from ALL the places you advertised, etc etc. Its bullshit in my opinion. I am now Anti-Parked.com from Donny deleting me after 5 years of membership. I never had any warning, never broke any rules, never got in trouble with anything.
I was making 6k a month. Now im lucky if I make $6 a month. So needless to say i wish parked.com and Donny bad karma.
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C’mon, Kristi. As quoted in their email to you giving you warning, like they did me, they cite their TOS section that forbids arbitrage. Yes, of course, they didn’t enforce it until Yahoo made them.
You wish them ill because they’re made to enforce what was already part of the Terms of Service?
A lot of people were making good money with arbitrage… I received over 40 e-mails 2 weeks after this article was posted.
Never done arbitrage in my life (and probably never will), but some people were just making ridiculous amounts of money with it. Too messy for me to care ;).
Yeah, I feel like I missed out. When I signed up with parked.com around a year ago (I think) I read the Terms of Service which said that we won’t get paid for traffic other than type-in and search… so I didn’t bother. If only I knew they really didn’t mind.
Now I’m wondering what to do with my parked domains… maybe development is the only way to go.
Pointers for a newbie are always welcomed.
I’ve been moving to development, but am having a hard time figuring out an efficient system to get domains up and running like I’d like them to.
The parking industry seems like it’s constantly spiraling downward instead of upward. I recently received an e-mail from a parking company that I’m parked with (and make them some nice change) that they will be upgrading their system next month and will hopefully be making their users more money.
At this point in the game it’s either: try and develop and monetize using AdSense or test out different parking providers. If your domains don’t receive natural traffic, I definitely recommend some sort of development.