Parking Parking.Nic.Ru lost the founders

           

The creators of the first Russian domain name parking service (gentlemen Stepanovs) left the project ! Scandals, intrigues, investigations…

A bit of history in large strokes:

Parking parking.nic.ru is one of the most popular tools for monetizing domain traffic in the .RU segment. The independent project parked.ru was launched in November 2006, and in April 2008 was acquired by Nik-Media LLC, a subsidiary of RU-CENTER, the largest Russian domain registrar.

Relatively low payout threshold ($ 10), transparent statistics, high-quality templates for parking pages - these are what attracted domainers to PARKED.RU. With the sale of business to RU-CENTER, much has changed. The system began to work only with residents of the Russian Federation and exclusively with individuals. To the parking commission (20% of the Begun’s original rates) 13% of personal income tax and WebMoney commission in the amount of 0.6% of the withdrawn amount were added, which could not but upset regular users. You can be indignant here, but these actions had a reasonable explanation - RU-CENTER conducts exclusively white business, and everyone who wants to participate in the project must obey the tax legislation of the Russian Federation. However, there were also positive changes: a new control panel with advanced statistics, new beautiful templates,

The end of the historical background.

Negative trends began earlier this year. Many parking.nic.ru customers noted unreasonable shave of hits, which was explained by "poor traffic" and "updated statistics of clicks from the Begun system." Plus, a large mass of clicks began to go with bidders (EPC) of $ 0.01 and even $ 0.00 (less than 1 cent). All of these facts, Nik-Media LLC commented solely on the effect of changes within the Begun system: the threshold for the minimum bid in the system, the general crisis of the PPC advertising market, and so on. Many were forgiven due to the high loyalty of old users to the creators of the original PARKED.RU

The denouement of events came in May. Users of the system received invoices for signing in April, in which the new director, Osadchiy Anatoly Ivanovich, appeared on the part of Nik-Media LLC (previously it was Gennady Stepanov). New moderators appeared on the support forum (Daniil and Dmitry Stepanov, who had previously actively helped questioning users, also disappeared). The creators of PARKED.RU finally left their brainchild.

What is an industry crisis? Change of power? The financial collapse of the project?
There are no answers to these questions yet.

The symbolic picture on Dmitry Stepanov’s personal website ( stepanov’s habrayuzer ) hints to us that the farewell to Nik-Media LLC was an unpleasant surprise for the creators.

Dmitry himself points outas the current place of work, the startup GreenCom LLC for which it is actively recruiting Web developers in Drupal / PHP.

Perhaps his new project is linked to the FUTURITI website , a new service for building social media communities launched in April this year.