Hello and Assalamo Alaikum,
It was quite slow month in terms of revenue but overall it was a great year and I really enjoyed it specially in domaining. I hope 2015 is going to be far better and I expect many positives and exciting things to happen. Below is the parking stats for December 2014 and initially I thought the revenue might be dropped a lot but after calculating from both parking platforms it was quite okay.
Total visitors – 134,000+ (15k increase from the previous month).
Total clicks – 3,900+ (200 more clicks).
Total parked domains – 850 (50 new added).
Total revenue – $590 ($60 decrease compare to November).
Top 5 niche which made the most – Brandable, Games, Health, Music Cooking.
$$ made on a single day – $36
RPM – $5.73 ($.7 less in overall RPM).
CTR – 4.37% (Almost similar to previous month).
Overall it was good other than final outcome of revenue. Also I added another 50 domains.
I didn’t sold any domain in December because there was no attractive offer which I should have accepted. The main reason was due to holiday season and I found December being the slowest month of the year where there are very low number of inquiries received but I am hopeful things will get better starting new year. As planned for this year I have to get more lenient and get more sales this year.
I have moved over 95% of my domains to Uniregistry and although most of my domains are .com, I still have few .co, .cc domains which I wanted to move to Uniregistry as well but the pricing for those extensions is a bit on higher side due to which I have so far kept the remaining domains at GoDaddy. I hope Uniregistry accepts .IM domains in future so that I can bring all my .IM domains there too which are currently with DomainMonster. Not a good control panel of DM but since I have around 15 .IM domain I am okay with them.
Did you saw revenue improvement or were in the same boat of mine for December 2014? Also had any domain sale?
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Hello there, all the best in 2015! Hope January 2015 will be a better month. Take care
Thanks Onebrand and good luck with your new gTLDS. I like some of them and hopefully you get to see the return soon
Its not clever to move domains to registrar, uniregistry who commpete with their own clients, lies (e.g. about their newTld availability and prices – watch conference Frank Schiling vs Rick Schwartz), buys huge number of their own domains to make things look better.
Does e.g. Michael Berkens move domains to Uniregistry, or other top investors? Of course not
I think there was some issue about new gTLDs availability of Frank’s but I don’t see any other problems.
Recently FMA.com moved in around 100,000 domains to Uniregistry who owns one of the best portfolio in the domain space like Arabs.com, NewYear.com, Party.com, Squeeze.com, Monsters.com, Impact.com, Jogging.com and thousands more.
You can also read my review about Uniregistry here – https://www.abdulbasit.com/domaining/my-review-on-uniregistry-com-domain-name-registrar
There is no single good thing specially for me to keep domains at GoDaddy when I have found registrar like Uniregistry.
Does uniregistry offer option to list domains registered with them with either Afternic DLS or Sedo MLS?
As far as I know and after rechecking I don’t see such option but they are always implementing new stuff and I am sure we will see many more things coming to their registrar specially the merger of Uniregistry and DomainNameSales.com
Thanks for sharing.
What are your 2 parking companies?
DNS and ???
DNS and Bodis but using Bodis for couple of domains only which are banned from Google and DNS confirmed last year they don’t pay much $$ for G banned names but promised to pay more for such names in future…
Nice performance AbduBasit! 🙂
“Its not clever to move domains to registrar, uniregistry who commpete with their own clients”
@ Ab
This is one of the main reasons why we didn’t move our domains to Uniregistry, conflicts of interests are something I don’t tolerate in this business, same for the financial industry …
At the moment our portfolio is smaller than AbdulBasit’s one, but we have nice plans for selective growth in due time 😉
@ AbdulBasit: are you using Bodis for some fail-listed domains?
Thanks Andrea 🙂
I am using Bodis for couple of G banned domains for which DNS doesn’t monetize very well 🙂
Happy New Year Abdul. Wishing you all for the best for 2015. Looking fwd to reading your blog.
Many thanks Doron 🙂
These are some great parking stats, do you find that the majority of your revenue comes from an elite group of domains (example around 10 ultra premium domains) or is it spread around pretty evenly?
In short I would say that 60% of my parked domains make simply nothing. Now that actually doesn’t mean those are worthless domains because I have sold domains for thousands of dollars which made $0 from parking for at least one year.
It’s really funny to see that many of my top domains make almost nothing from parking and the ones which are paying renewals each year for many other domains itself are just average domains in terms of selling to endusers excluding their parking revenue.
Hi AbdulBasit,
Although I no longer focus on selling domains, I do like reading about your journey and wish you a prosperous year.
Jen
Jen,
Many thanks for your kind words and I wish you all the best in your endeavors. By the way, is there any specific reason for not focusing on selling domains?