Are domainers doomed by Microsoft-Yahoo deal?
Andrew Allemann suggested the salad days of working with Yahoo for parked domain ads will be replaced by the grimmer prospect of negotiating with Microsoft.
Microsoft isn’t what Allemann thinks of as domainer-friendly, either:
The scary thing is that parking companies that use a Yahoo feed will now have to negotiate with Microsoft. It means new relationships with a company that has a reputation for being tough negotiators.
There’s also the arbitrage aspect of domain parking, also threatened now:
Me: In theory, bid prices could go up as there isn’t much choice in tier-1 pay-per-click.
Myself: That would be good for domainers on Yahoo’s feed.
Me: But I guess you wouldn’t be able to do Microsoft-to-Yahoo click arbitrage on Parked.com anymore?
Myself: True, but Microsoft polices that pretty well anyway. The real arbitrage opportunity on Parked is from Google.
More of Allemann’s duality discussion may be found at Domain Name Wire.
this can only be bad for all internet user and domainers with only two big search sites.
Well Jonathon, MSN already said that both Search Engines would stay existing. How far that is true is doubtful, but okay…