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Originally Posted by phio
Seems like we are in a calm period... Auctions have slowed down, type in traffic on Sedo and ND up quite a bit from a month ago. PPC parking has slowed for Ascii domainers. The economy sucks in the US... but it seems like IDNs are on the verge of exploding. Anyone else sense this?
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Well... I can certainly testify to the Ascii PPC being down. I have seen a decrease in PPC by a factor of 4 or more in the last couple of months. For Ascii I use Fabulous (arguably the best there is at Ascii) and DomainSponsor. Most of this decrease in PPC is in high quality single word domains that I have held since 1996... so the Ascii market is tanking. Since Fabulous uses a Google feed, and since Google has recently allowed advertisers to opt out of parked pages, then it may be time to look for non-google feed parking companies for Ascii domains. A lot of other domainers with high quality Ascii portfolios are seeing similar decreases. It also raises the issue of "solvency" with some of the major parking companies, since they are also seeing a major drop in PPC based on the fractional share of PPC with domain owners.