Since the original query of this thread was "is parked better than sedo?", not whether bleachmob.com still has traffic 7 years later or if Focus should go get a real job or whether Acroplex is the troll on the right or the left, it was a simple question comparing Parked.com to Sedo.
Parked.com uses a Yahoo and an Ask feed which is basically a Google (AFS) feed. By default domains go to a 2 click/lander page. But about 20-30% of them go to a 1 click/direct to results page. Neither feed has smart pricing.
Sedo uses a Google (AFD) feed. Which is 1 click, but in certain cases you can make it 2 click. Has smartpricing, which is the process of determine the value of where the click is coming from and discounting the amount the advertiser pays based on that information. In the past this used to be based on the overall feed, so crappy traffic from one domain could effect over 200,000 domains. But I have been told that it's now on a userlevel, but I can't verify this. So if a click is $1.00 and your user account value is only 50% based on previous conversions, the advertiser would only pay $0.50 for the click not a $1.00 and then Sedo would get their share of the $0.50.
Parked.com uses an estimate for today's numbers just to give you a estimate of what you are making today. We found that people want to have some idea on what they are making, it's not 100% accurate and sometimes can be manipulated by certain bots, but it will give you a good estimate on how you are doing for today and it is updated every 15 minutes. Tomorrow when we get our numbers from our different providers we combine the numbers and replace the estimates from yesterday with the final numbers from our providers. We pay based on what our providers tell us you earned for the previous day. So if our estimates said you had 5 clicks and $20.00 and our providers say 0 clicks and $0.00 that's what we pay you. The same goes for the opposite if we say you had 1 vistor and 50 clicks and we don't think they 50 clicks are real, and our providers tell us they paid for 50 clicks, we will pay you for 50 clicks. No questions asked. If the advertiser is paying for a click, that means we will be paid, which means we will pay you.
Sedo does get domain level reporting on their domains, but they use it for estimating stats in the future, not paying you on a domain level. So an hour and 15 minutes after an hour is over Sedo crunches all of the data and shows you what you will be paid based on historical information they have collected over time. So if they tell you that you had 5 clicks and $12.00 so far today, that is what you should be paid on. That does not mean that's what they are getting paid, because they don't count more than 1 click per search. Depending on the volume of traffic you have your smartpricing will vary for the first week or so, then it should level out. If their finalized numbers were too high for yesterday, they will lower your precentage today to try and make up the difference. This information may not be 100% accurate, but this is what I remember when I talked to them last time about this.
Parked currently has 3,386 templates. We are adding about 50-75 new ones per day. Currently you can't choose all of them, but next week you will be able to choose any of the templates.
I can't remember exactly how many templates Sedo offers right now, I think it was around 75-100. My account doesn't allow me view the templates.
Parked allows you to choose keywords and it's approved immeditately.
Sedo allows you to choose keywords, but their is a 24 hour wait for them to be approved, unless it's the weekend and it's a little longer then.
Both programs are very good, I have no reason to bash Sedo or even complain about them. I even have a Sedo ipod they gave me for being such a good customer. We do still send some traffic to Sedo ourselves, I won't really say why because you would laugh. But I think each company has their own niche in the parking business.
I hope this helps explain the original question.
Donny
