SmartName.com Is Causing A Stir

That was myself yesterday: 1,382 domains moved from Parked.com to SmartName.com

With Examples:

OnlineFinancing.com
Properties.mobi
DVDs.mobi
Brooklyn.mobi
Anniversary.mobi
Luxury.mobi
Rings.mobi
Series.mobi
Radios.mobi
Estate.mobi
Carts.mobi
Locater.mobi
Places.mobi
Roads.mobi
Areas.mobi
Stations.mobi
Traveler.mobi
Rewards.mobi
Locals.mobi
Journal.mobi
Businesses.mobi
Directories.mobi
Adventures.mobi
Advertisements.mobi
Classified.mobi
Searcher.mobi
Searches.mobi
Seats.mobi
Gamers.mobi
Graphics.mobi
Sites.mobi
Designs.mobi
Developers.mobi

They have new service i want to test it this week SmartName Shops.

regards,
Nidal Kadri

I forwarded a select group of domains to Smartname servers which primarily had search volume but scarce traffic due to being alternative extension domains. I have seen a bit of traffic which did not previously exist in parking but thus far the traffic hasn’t converted well. I’ll admit I am not familiar with using the system and perhaps haven’t done a good job of optimizing the minisites. I’ll have to take a closer look at reconfiguring the setup when I get a chance…

You people are CRAZY to move domains around, that is soooooo 2009, this is 2010. Above.com Rocks. No if, ands or BUTTS.

Hi Jamz,

Nice article.

I received a personal invite to move to Smartname (don’t you want to instinctively type “smartnames.com” the plural?), but didn’t receive a response when I answered it without submitting my domains. I was willing to compare their service with the best-of-the-best content development sites, WhyPark.com. However, the personal attention that Whypark gives me wasn’t matched by Name Media’s “new” attempt at content dev customer attainment. (Maybe NM needs to promote Amber West to VP of CSM)

So far, I’m in no hurry to change away from Whypark. I have slowly moved longtail generics that received NO visitors at Parked.com, Roar.com or even TrafficZ.com over to WhyPark. This has been a proven excellent use of my time and money.

Maybe a reason of my success with WhyPark is that I make a point to take an outside article on my niche longtail and rewrite it into a short 150 word “original” custom page that I could place on my WhyPark homepage or into the site map.

Flying by the seat of my pants, I’ve moved 230 domains to WhyPark in about 20 months, and none of the domains have been “blacklisted” on the SE’s, including the Goog, but my average payouts are now equaling the PPC payouts with the 1700 premium domains at Parked.com. That has shocked me. In fact, both the Goog, Bing and Yahoo have pushed some of my WhyPark domains into the top five results in quoted phrase keyword searches. This really isn’t my intent with using WhyPark, but I’ll take the OST!

I’m moving domains that get nothing at PPC sites over to Whypark, and writing in odd keyword sequences at “SITE SETTINGS” and putting up at least one Custom Page with relevant original content I can write in less than five minutes. And within 30 days I start to see revenue start to trickle in. (If you think you can make hundreds of dollars in a month with one lonely generic domain by using WhyPark, you’re a noobie, so quit the complaining about your expectations of huge riches and a blossoming content-rich website built while you pick your nose. Get a managed setup account, and spend about 20 minutes a month on that domain.)

Right now, my 200+ domains are making me consistent $5 a day payouts — on domains that made NOTHING prior.

So that brings me to the crest of the waterfall: My only real goal with my domains is to sell them to an end user – because that’s where the full value is for domainers (unless the domainer becomes an end user with a sincere purpose to make it grow roots and fruit).

As far as what WhyPark gives domainers who are wasting time at PPC sites that return zero rev, having a nice website on that same domain makes your potential buyers worry that your site will compete with their prodservs, especially if they see relevant reading content and their competitors adlinks mixed in.

So, getting end users and other domain investors interested in your domains is ultimately a domain investor’s goal if we want to make the most ROI. Pinpointing your main niches and buying up all the one-two word naturals in this niche are the key to building a strong portfolio.

WhyPark sets up my maturing domains, longtails for niches, and branding domains PERFECTLY to excite potential buyers to make bids or inquire about the domain. I haven’t had this experience with DevHub or any other content dev site, but WhyPark has blown my mind so far.

From what examples I’ve seen here about Smartname sites (not talking about their Premium domains, how about showing some three word 20 character domains as SmartName websites?), I’m not yet impressed.

I respect NM and all their services, including AfternicDLS and BD. I know their team members, but I haven’t taken the time to tell them that coming into the content dev arena, beating Whypark is going to be like a college football team playing a Super Bowl winner. WhyPark’s focus is like a .50 Tac-50 in the hands of a Marine sniper and his spotter compared to kid shooting an airsoft rifle at a paper target with his little brother going “let me try! let me try!”

Hi Jamz,

I DID THE SAME THING (“wrote Snapnames instead of Smartname”) !!!

I caught it just before I submitted it.. LOL

I also want to make a correction – unfortunately, I found out that NM let Amber West go, so she no longer works there, so she can’t be “promoted to VP of CSM”. That’s too bad…