I haven’t looked into my parked domains in a long time. Actually it was about a year since I logged into my NameDrive account. Talking to my friend Steve from Wixi this year I decided to start looking into my accounts. My optimization can be a lot better. My parked domains don’t make me much after looking at account for about a month I realize already new techniques to improve the entire account. I’m not in a rush so I’ll start applying changes next month.

One thing I did notice was there is quite an increase in sites that created their brands on IDNs I own. Some are blogs, some are just bbs pages. There are two that really got my attention. One is  格安旅行.jp (cheap travel, cheap vacation) & the other is 会社設立.jp (company incorporation, my translation might be slightly off). The company incorporation one seems to been launched recently. The sucky thing is the more they promote their site the more traffic comes to my parked page. Since I have ties to J-seed (Venture company in Tokyo). I thought we can do something with the domain later.

The cheap travel domain. It seems like an SEO company has invested in buying plenty of backlinks with the .jp even in the URL. It’s to the point they do rank first page for the term cheap travel but if the user tries to find the site by the brand 格安旅行.jp my site shows up first.

I believe you guys who have held onto your portfolio should know where the traffic is coming from. One ASCII dot jp I own & bought as a drop gets traffic because there is a company with co.jp. I just figured this one out today. This is the situation where it would be good to offer them a chance to buy the domain if I don’t plan to use it.

Anyway Happy investing. Think Progressive.