Domain Parking Accounts

ActiveAudience is a second generation domain parking service from the creators of Gold Key. This newer service appears to target owners of larger portfolios and domain professionals with higher-traffic domains. Gold Key and BuyDomains merged some time back to become Name Media. ActiveAudience is built upon the experience of professionals who were involved in both projects.

• It’s FREE! Quick and easy setup
• Free multi-lander testing for every domain
• Free keyword optimization tools
• More than 250 themed categories
• More than 80 color schemes
• Unsurpassed reporting tools

We at ActiveAudience are on a mission: To help your parked domains achieve unparalleled financial success.

When you partner with ActiveAudience, you’ll also enjoy the resources of our sister company BuyDomains.com — one of the industry leaders with more than 650,000 names under ownership.

Five Reasons Domain Owners Park with Us

1. Unmatched Experience: We’ve been successfully managing domains since 1999, and we can do the same for you.
2. Partnerships that Work For You: We’ve created mutually beneficial relationships between domain owners and some of the Web’s premier providers.
3. Optimization Techniques that Boost Results: Our proven proprietary optimization techniques get the most out of every domain.
4. State-of-the-Art Reporting Platform: We help domain owners monitor their traffic patterns and earnings with our easy-to-use interface.
5. Landing Pages that Take Off: Domain owners can easily build landing pages with our market-tested templates, or let us do it for them.

Thousands of Template Variations
How does the design of a landing page affect click-through rates?

It’s a question we often answer at ActiveAudience on behalf of our customers, because we are always finding any advantage that will give you a competitive edge. So we conduct extensive testing that compares click-through rates of domain pages that have just text and ones with different designs.

The answer we often find is dramatic: it all depends on the individual domain. Domains using certain designs and images significantly outperformed others, but each domain acts differently and no single design fits all.

To let you take advantage of this critical finding, ActiveAudience creates unique web templates that are proven to be extremely effective in converting surfers into visitors. Applying one of these templates to your domain takes just a few mouse clicks.

Choose from a library of more than 250 themed categories, from computer hardware to snack foods. You can test and set keywords that you believe are best for your domains. Or, just set your domains to be optimized by our proprietary software.

Here are some samples of our current landing pages:

Basic: http://www.acrosstheboard.info
2-Column: http://www.actionplus.info
3-Column: http://www.activesystems.info
Classic: http://www.2006election.net
Tabs: http://www.00studio.net
Search: http://www.instasearch.net

ActiveAudience’s domain name parking platform is the free, easy, and effective way to maximize the returns on your domain names. To get started on the service, here’s all you need to do:

	Sign up: Click here to join our domain parking. Tell us what domain names you own, and generally you’ll get an e-mail in moments about whether you’re accepted, with a link to your account. In rare cases, it may take up to a business day.
	Tell us how you want to be paid: On your account screen, make sure you tell us where to send your money! We send payments via Paypal, wire transfer or paper checks.
	Add your domains: You can add up to 5,000 domains at a time. For more than 5,000 domains, feel free to contact us and we’ll do a bulk upload for you.
	Name your portfolios (optional!): Much like a stock portfolio, you may find it easier to manage your domains by category. For example, you could put all your hotel domains in a portfolio named “Hotels” and give them the same templates and keywords. Any changes you want to make to domains in that portfolio can be done all at once, instead of one domain at a time.
	Pick your layouts (optional!): Choose from various layouts as well as more than 260 category themes, such as snacks, airplanes, and computer hardware. We also offer more than 70 color themes, meaning there are more than 72,000 variations of templates to choose from.
	Or let us choose the layouts for you (optional!): You can also decide to display your domains on all the templates, and we’ll optimize them to land on the layout that results in the highest number of clicks. Depending on the traffic your domains receive, this could take hours or days for a “winning” layout to be determined.
	Pick a Slogan (optional!): You can set a slogan on your domain names, so when users land on them, they get a clear idea of what the site is about.
	Offer for Sale (optional!): Let us know if you want to sell your domain names. We’ll put a link on your sites where people can e-mail you with an offer.
	Check out your reports: Our state-of-the-art reporting platform allows you to see custom reports on revenues, clicks, click-thru rates, visitors and page views. We also have six versions of charts for different views of your data.
	Get your money! Monthly payments are made by the 15th of the month. For example, May payments are sent on or before June 15th.

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Frequently Asked Questions:

ActiveAudience Domain Parking Questions:
What is ActiveAudience?
What is Domain Parking?
What Features Do You Offer?
What Does This Service Cost?
Who Are Your PPC Partners?
How Many Domains Do I Need?
What Are Your Requirements?
What Do Your Domain Landing Pages Look Like?
Will my domains go directly to results pages?

Revenue Related Questions:
How Much Can I Earn?
How Do I Receive Payment?
What Is Your Payout Cycle?
Do You Offer Real Time Stats?
How Often Are Stats Updated?
What Is The Minimum Payout?
What Is Your Revenue Share?

Web Site Related Question:
What Does Optimization Mean?
How Do You Optimize My Domains?
Can You Help Me Sell My Domain Names?
Do You Offer Help With Setup?
How Does Your Optimization Work?

Support Related Questions:
Who Do I Contact For Support?
How Do I Register My Account?
How Long Does It Take For Approval?
I Submitted My Application But Haven’t Heard Back. Why?

Referral Program Questions:
What % commission do I earn on referrals?
Do you have a referral program?
How does the program work?
How do I promote myself through the program?

Answers:

ActiveAudience Questions:
Q: What is ActiveAudience?
A: ActiveAudience’s Domain Parking service enables you to earn money from your domain names without the need to develop your own website. ActiveAudience offers better branding of your names, state-of-the art reporting, higher click thru rates, and a wide range of templates for you to choose from. ActiveAudience even offers themed templates upon request to match the look and feel of your website. Partners at ActiveAudience receive all these benefits and much more.

Q; What Is Domain Parking?
A: Domain Parking allows owners of website addresses, called domain names, to display customized pages for their names. When visitors arrive at these sites, they are often shown targeted advertising related to the domain name. When users click through to those advertiser sites, the domain name owner can earn a referral fee.

Q; What Features Do You Offer?
A: ActiveAudience offers a number of desired features for partners enrolled in our partner program. Some of our features include robust statistics, themed and unthemed landing pages, for sale signs, domain name optimization, dedicated account managers, managed accounting, live support, and much more. We are adding features often to help earn you the most money from your visitors.

Q: What Does This Service Cost?
A: ActiveAudience’s Domain Parking Service is absolutely free for all partners. This includes initial account setup and creation, account maintenance, and even account management. This also includes free landing pages, themed landing pages, and account optimization. We strive to offer only the best features for our partners. We do not charge and will not charge you for these services.

Q: Who Are Your PPC Partners?
A: ActiveAudience is partnered with teh top PPC provider and other strategis partners to power your landing pages with advertisements.

Q: How Many Domains Do I Need?
A: We support an unlimited amount of parked names @ ActiveAudience so this enables you to have as many domains parked as you see fit. We also offer state-of-the-art reporting for each account enabling you to see detailed traffic statistics on each of the domain names you have parked with us.

Q: What Are Your Requirements?
A: ActiveAudience’s requirements are strictly on a case by case basis. Upon sign-up an account manager will review your application and take several things into consideration before approving your account. Some of these considerations may include but not be limited to your source of traffic, and the revenue that will be generated from parking your domain name with our services.

Q: What Do Your Domain Landing Pages Look Like?
A: Currently we have various versions of templates — Basic, 2-Column, 3-Column, Classic, Custom Photo, Hybrid, Tabs, Results & Related, Results-Simple, Results-Tabs and Search. Users have the option of selecting one layout for their domains, or running a test on the layouts to see which one receives the highest numbers of clicks per domain.

Classic: The Classic template has a proven track record and uses striking imagery. It typically does well with domains that are well targeted to a category and require more than just a basic design. This template uses a single banner image and simpler layout than the 2-Column and 3-Column templates. Domain owners can suggest up to four keywords that may be used in rotation with our feed providers’ suggestions to find out which one optimizes best.
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Tabs: The Tabs template is similar to Classic, but adds tabs and photos to the popular categories section. Domain owners can suggest up to four keywords that may be used in rotation with our feed providers’ suggestions to find out which one optimizes best.
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Search: This template provides a method to see what people are searching for when they arrive at that domain name. Used in conjunction with our click analysis tool, the search template can help domain owners uncover the keywords categories and themes that would work best for the domain name.
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Hybrid: The Hybrid is similar to our Basic template, but uses stronger color options, and a highlighted navigation area for related searches.
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Basic: The Basic template is a text-only page designed for simplicity with a clean appearance. The page is divided into popular categories on the left and related searches on the right. In the lower right there is a box where visitors can enter their own search terms.
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2-Column: The 2-Column template features a large image plus three keyword-associated smaller images. The navigation text links can be hand-selected by our domain name owners, and must be approved prior to being published. The images are already provided and their titles are hyperlinked to a sponsored results page. Below and to the left of the main image, there is descriptive text with additional keyword links. This template also has related keywords and popular searches.
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3-Column: The 3-Column Customize allows domain owners to select their own navigational text links. It also features a large image plus four keyword-associated thumbnail images, which are not customizable, but are selected by a domain owner’s choice of theme. The images’ keyword titles are hyperlinked to a sponsored results page. Below the main image, there is a relevant theme description, additional related keywords and a box where visitors can enter their own search. The 3-Column’s main strengths are its visual appeal and its reinforcement of a domain owners hand-selected keywords.
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Custom Photo: Domain name owners can upload a photo to their template, which will be published after approval by our support team. The recommended size of the photo is 481×245 pixels, in jpg or gif format. Domain owners using this template also can suggest up to 21 keywords for the navigation.
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2-Column-2: The 2-Column 2.0 template is a refreshening of the 2-Column customize template. The visual changes for this template are more evolutionary than revolutionary. The original structure of the 2-Column Customize has been kept intact, gradient color schemes and a cleaner more organized layout of content/link boxes has been added. A gradient background has been added to emphasize the natural progression of the content/links from the top to the bottom of the page.
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3-Column-2: The 3-Column 2.0 template is an updated version of the 3-Column Customize template. The look and feel has been redesigned/reorganized to give a cleaner appearance to the page. All the features from the 3-Column Customize template remain. A gradient background has been added to emphasize the natural progression of the content/links from the top to the bottom of the page.
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Reflections: The Reflections template applies JavaScript technology to create image reflections on the page. The bigger hero image and two thumbnails to the right are the only images on the page that will receive the reflections treatment. The two smaller images directly below are standard with no reflections. A gradient background adds emphasis to content/links on the top section of the page. Related keywords and popular categories can be customized by the domain owner very much like the 2-Column Customize and 3-Column Customize templates respectively.
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Local: The Local Template will give domain owners with geo-location specific domains an option to display a search portal page that combines the ‘what’ and ‘where’ into a single search query string. For example, a visitor to the site with the local template can enter in the ‘what’ they are searching for (pizza) and the ‘where’ (Waltham, MA) and receive relevant location results. The domain does not have to be location specific.
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Results Simple: This is a 1-click or Direct to Results template that shows advertising links on the first page. It has no search box and no related links. Domain-name owners can suggest up to four keywords that may be used in rotation with our feed providers’ suggestions to find out which one optimizes best.
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Results 1: This is a 1-click or Direct to results template that shows advertising links on the first page. It includes an image based on the selected theme, and shows related searches in the right-hand navigation. Domain-name owners can suggest up to four keywords that may be used in rotation with our feed providers’ suggestions to find out which one optimizes best.
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Results 2: This is a 1-click or Direct to results template that shows advertising links on the first page. Unlike Results 1, it has no image and shows related searches in the left-hand navigation. Domain-name owners can suggest up to four keywords that may be used in rotation with our feed providers’ suggestions to find out which one optimizes best.
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Results 3: The Direct to Results A template features sponsored advertising links directly on the main page. It includes three images based on the selected theme with clickable related keyword search links above the images.
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Results 4: The Direct to Results B template features sponsored advertising links directly on the main page. It includes a list of customizable related keyword search links on the right hand navigation.
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Results 5: The Direct to Results C template features sponsored advertising links directly on the main page. This template combines both the features from Direct to Results A and Direct to Results B. Domain owners using this template will be able to display three images based on the selected theme and a customizable list of related keywords.
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Results Tabs: This is a 1-click or Direct to results template that shows advertising links on the first page. It adds tabs near the top of the page and shows related searches in the right-hand navigation. Domain-name owners can suggest up to four keywords that may be used in rotation with our feed providers’ suggestions to find out which one optimizes best.
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Q: Will my domains go directly to results pages?
A: Yes, at your discretion you can determine if your names go to a 2-click lander or a 1-click results page.

Revenue Related Questions:
Q: How Much Can I Earn?
A: ActiveAudience has partnered with the best on the web to ensure you get the highest payouts on your domain name landing pages. The possibilities are limitless! There are many other factors which can increase your earning such as traffic volume, and account optimization, which we do for you!

Q: How Do I Receive Payments?
A: You have several options for payment methods. You may choose to accept a check, wire transfer or PayPal payments from ActiveAudience and we will pay you in this fashion. We give you these three options to meet your growing needs. Furthermore, you can change these options at anytime if you wish to receive payment differently for each payout. It’s best to change the option prior to the end of the month to ensure the proper information is retrieved for the payment, since payments are made by the 15th day of the following month.

Q: What Is Your Payout Cycle?
A: ActiveAudience payout cycle works on a net 15 basis. We calculate the earnings from your account for the month and you are paid by the 15th of every month for your previous months earnings. We typically run the payment scripts within the first two days of the month, so any changes customers want to make to their account payment information are best done prior to the end of the month.

Q: Do You Offer Real-Time Stats?
A: ActiveAudience offers real-time statistics for all partners. Upon approval and creation of your account, you are given access to your online account manager which tracks statistics on your domain names, and gives you real-time visitor and clicks reporting. These statistics are then reviewed and updated by our feed providers for revenue payouts, usually overnight, before final payments are calculated. At ActiveAudience our job is to keep you informed every step of the way! Account managers can also assist with special report requests.

Q: How Often Are Stats Updated?
A: Your account visit and click statistics are updated in real-time. revenue statistics are calculated overnight. Our reporting is always up to date and you receive this information every time you login to your ActiveAudience account! These estimated statistics are then reviewed by our feed providers, usually overnight, before final payments are calculated. If you ever have questions regarding reporting, feel free to contact us so we can discuss them with you!

Q: What Is The Minimum Payout?
A: ActiveAudience’s minimum payout is $50 or more for checks, $10 or more for PayPal and $100 or more for wire transfer. If you do not meet this minimum payout, we will carry your stats over from the previous month until your account balance meets the amount. In some extreme situations, if your account has not met our minimum payout requirements, we will payout your account if you request us to do so.

Q: What is Your Revenue Share?
A: Parking customers should realize that the revenue share quoted by any parking service depends on the contracts with their feed providers. For example, a 95% revenue share quoted to you means little if that partner is only getting 45% of the revenue from the feed provider. In that case, your payout is really only 42% — and the feed provider makes more on your domain names than you do!

As the owners of more than 700,000 domain names of our own, the NameMedia Network has the ability to leverage significant strategic relationships with the best feed providers on the web. We cannot divulge our feed provider revenue shares, but we can assure our ActiveAudience customers that we actively and aggressively monitor domain name payouts industry wide to ensure our customers are paid at the top of the scale. In addition, our optimization technology tests domains on various lander page layouts to determine which ones yield the best click through rate.

Website Related Questions:
Q: What Does Optimization Mean?
A: ActiveAudience specializes in optimizing your landing pages. We offer multiple template choices, and if you select the “Optimize” option in our Edit Domains page, we’ll test various landers and resolve to the one with the highest click-thru rate. We go the extra mile to optimize your domain names by adding relevant content to your landing pages. This relevant content will enable your visitors to find what they are looking for fast without the need to sift through unrelated links. This increases usability, and keeps advertiser’s content on the subject matter.

Q: How Do You Optimize My Domain?
A: ActiveAudience optimizes your portfolio in several ways by finding the most relevant words and categories for your landing pages. We offer multiple template choices, and if you select the “Optimize” option in our Edit Domains page, we’ll test several of our landers and resolve to the one with the highest click-thru rate. We work hard to ensure you get the best related words on your parked pages and the highest payout on these words if clicked by your visitors.

Q: Can You Help Me Sell My Domain Names?
A: All partners are able to list a “For Sale” sign on their landing pages. This is done instantly and dynamically via your online control panel. If you choose to enable this option, your visitors will see the “For Sale” sign on your landing pages and be able to contact you directly regarding the sale of your domain name. This feature can be turned off or on, which ever you choose. You can also ask your account manager to have your domains represented by a professional sales force at our sister company, BuyDomains.com.

Q: Do You Offer Help With Setup?
A: ActiveAudience offers free setup for all accounts. Once your account is approved, an account manager will contact you with the details you need to setup your account. If for any reason you need help setting up your account, we will be more than willing to walk you through the process and help you get your domain names parked immediately!

Q: How Does Your Optimization Work?
A: Our optimization works by targeting the correct audience for your landing pages. This is done via detailed research of your subject matter, I.E. Your domain name, and the content that will be most relevant for your surfers. Also, we offer multiple template choices, and if you select the “Optimize” option in our Edit Domains page, we’ll test various layouts and resolve to the one with the highest click-thru rate. Relevant content means, higher click thru rates, and this in tern increases your payout substantially!

Support Related Questions:
Q: Whom Do I Contact For Support?
A: ActiveAudience can be contacted anytime if you have support related questions. Please feel free to visit our contact page and send us your request. An account manager will answer all emails in the order they are received. You can expect a reply to your email in most cases as early as minutes.

Q: How Do I Register My Account?
A: To register at ActiveAudience you must submit an enrollment application from our sign-up page. Once your application is received, an account manager will review your application and contact you regarding the status of your account. Once your account has been approved you will be notified via email and you may login and begin configuring your account settings.

Q: How Long Does It Take For Approval?
A: Approval varies on a case by case basis. This depends on the size of your domain portfolio in most cases. Once reviewed, you wil typically get a response within 48 hours from the time you submit your enrollment application. If you do not hear from us and you have questions regarding the status of your account you may contact us anytime.

Q: I Submitted My Application But Haven’t Heard Back. Why?
A: Active Audience approves fewer than 1 out of every 10 applicants. With numerous applications received a day, the most common reason applications are not approved is that applicants do not list their domains or describe any traffic or other metrics that help us decide whether to allow the names into our systems. If you do not hear from us and you have questions regarding the status of your account you may contact us anytime.

Referral Program Questions:
Q: What % Commission Do I Earn On Referrals?
A: You earn 10% of what each of your referred accounts earns during their first 12 months.

Q: Do You Have a Referral Program?
A: Yes. The Referral Program will pay you a bonus of up to 10% of the net earnings of all customers that you refer. The amount of customers you refer is unlimited. The referral bonus is paid monthly and remains active for 12 months.

Q: How Does the Program Work?
A: You will earn 10% of every dollar that they earn. You will continue to earn 10% for 12 months as long as you and your referrals are active in the program.

Q: How Do I Promote Myself Through the Program?
A: Go to the My Account tab of our site and click on Referral Program. There you will find your personalized sign-up link and banners. Use this personalized sign-up link to send your friends and when they sign up, your account will be automatically connected to theirs. We also have banners that you can use on sites or forums you have access to.

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