Parking Rip-off?

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by bramiozo

I think that we need to discriminate two things; selling and parking, if I would start to play with this I would not want the burden (nor the responsibility) of maintaining a sales venue, it would be parking and parking only. If any new idn-parking service would arise by an idnforums iniative it should be exclusive for obvious reasons, trust ,responsibility and manageability being important and moreover, the names would be of high quality.

I don't see that a Sales forum is required of any proposed Parking Service. My longer-term goal is not to sell domains.

I think that if such a service is launched by members of this Forum, then it should be provided with a link on the tool bar at the top if Olney is agreeable.

If you can provide a service on an acceptable fixed revenue share basis and get it up and running in a reasonable time frame, I think we could commit to parking our Hanzi and Kanji portfolio, with you for a 12 month period. I would want the perogative to review the situation after 12 months, and of course if it was shown to be a good competitive service we could look at the possibility of parking the remainder of our portfolio. As far as dividing your share of the spoils is concerned amongst partners, that would not something I would be interested in getting involved with. As far a I would be concerned you would be the Principal.

An indication of what percentage of the revenue you would be looking for and how soon you think you can get this up and running would be very useful.

If you require confirmation of this I would of course need to consult with my partner.

[bramiozo]

Originally Posted by rhys

For my part, first things first and parking is my principal interest at this point. I can wait for sales venue or outsource that. I want to understand the traffic and serve relevant content to that traffic. Not sure what the second portion of your message means exactly so could you elaborate? Thanks

Exclusive in the sense that I would want to serve the larger HQ portfolio's.

(all assuming I can do it of course, it's still just an idea)

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by bramiozo

Exclusive in the sense that I would want to serve the larger HQ portfolio's.

(all assuming I can do it of course, it's still just an idea)

I don't really have a problem with that, but then perhaps we would not qualify and frankly until we get a parking service that works, how do any of really know our portfolios have what it takes.

[bramiozo]

Originally Posted by Dwrixon

I don't see that a Sales forum is required of any proposed Parking Service. My longer-term goal is not to sell domains.

I think that if such a service is launched by members of this Forum, then it should be provided with a link on the tool bar at the top if Olney is agreeable.

If you can provide a service on an acceptable fixed revenue share basis and get it up and running in a reasonable time frame, I think we could commit to parking our Hanzi and Kanji portfolio, with you for a 12 month period. I would want the perogative to review the situation after 12 months, and of course if it was shown to be a good competitive service we could look at the possibility of parking the remainder of our portfolio. As far as dividing your share of the spoils is concerned amongst partners, that would not something I would be interested in getting involved with. As far a I would be concerned you would be the Principal.

An indication of what percentage of the revenue you would be looking for and how soon you think you can get this up and running would be very useful.

If you require confirmation of this I would of course need to consult with my partner.

Dave, I have no idea what timeframe I am looking at, I would have to brainstorm a bit on what's possible. I can't say anything about a revenue percentage because that's dependent on the method of parking (at least in the way I see it).

I'll throw some idea's at you when I have something tangible .

Originally Posted by Dwrixon

I don't really have a problem with that, but then perhaps we would not qualify and frankly until we get a parking service that works, how do any of really know our portfolios have what it takes.

Let's forget that, I first need to know if it's possible, if I have anything that can be tested, everyone on the forum is invited .

first things first

[donwebcorleone]

i see Sedo/Namedrive parking more for sales, after all what can the parking services offer me than i cant do myself with my asian IDN when they dont even pay special attention to the markets im interested, i mean Japan or China? it is easier for me to get an account with japanese affiliates than to give them a high percentage of PPC just to "park" or should i say "to park for they to forget my IDN".

I guess if u dont have a few dollars more to invest in hosting, they are okay. just a matter of money.

another thing I intend is what another japanese domainer i met in a japanese forum is doing, i mean to hire chinese university freshman students to work on his sites, considering you can hire them paying like $200 per month (some greedy bastards pay them even less but im not such an evil person to pay $100/month), this will mean a cheap investment to have people working full time 8hours/5 days a week doing content as well as marketing my IDNs in many other chinese websites, directories, blogs, forums, etc. At this stage for me hiring students is better ROI than adwords focused to China for what i intend.

This japanese guy is doing great. i guess im gonna "copycat" him he he he For what i pay registering a single and sometimes bad chinese IDN .com $8, i can have someone working all day in my many other good IDNs increasing their value.