In a recent attempt to clean up the traffic and help the cpc and conversion of clients, yahoo among others have began to cut down drastically the ability to practice arbitrage with their feed. In an email I recieved a week or two ago from ParkingDots, they informed me that Yahoo would be closing the feed and they would be closing the business. What does this mean for other parking companies out there? Obviously they were unable to aquire an alternate top tier feed so how will this affect the industry leaders? Heres the email for your reading pleasure!
Subject: ParkingDots is permanently closing on 3/9/08
Importance: High
Hello. You were recently informed of the end of our Yahoo feed for your parked domains, and the subsequent contract we expected to sign with another Tier One feed provider. Unfortunately, the arrangement with the alternate provider did not work out as we’d expected. The consequence of this is that ParkingDots will be closing our doors effective this Sunday, March 9, 2008 at midnight. All the domains you have pointed to us should be redirected immediately to an alternate parking company. You might want to consider the following parking companies for your domains -
If we have not spoken to your personally today to explain the events unfolding, it is because we did not have a valid phone number in our system for you. We apologize that we are only able to reach you via email.
Any monies owed you will be paid according to our normal payment schedule, approximately 45 days following months end.
Please feel free to contact me should you have any questions.
Barbara Reininger
Product Manager
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