Parking Parking.Nic.Ru lost its founding fathers

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

A bit of history with large strokes:

Parking parking.nic.ru is one of the most popular tools for monetization of domain traffic in the .RU segment. The independent project parked.ru was launched in November 2006, and in April 2008 was taken over by the company Nik-Media, a subsidiary of the largest Russian domain registrar RU-CENTER.
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Relatively low payout threshold ($ 10), transparent statistics, high-quality parking page templates - this is what attracted domain managers to PARKED.RU. With the sale of RU-CENTER's business, much has changed. The system began to work only with residents of the Russian Federation and exclusively with individuals. The parking fee (20% of the original Begun's rates) was added with 13% personal income tax and WebMoney commission of 0.6% of the withdrawal amount, which could not but upset regular users. You can be indignant here, but these actions had a reasonable explanation - RU-CENTER conducts an 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, a partnership with Google (several months before the launch of Google Apps For Domains).

The end of the historical reference.

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

The end of events came in May. The users of the system received a signature for April in which the new director Osadchy Anatoly Ivanovich appeared from the side of Nik-Media LLC (previously it was Gennady Stepanov). New moderators appeared on the support forum (Daniel and Dmitry Stepanov, who had previously actively helped questioning users, also disappeared). The creators of PARKED.RU finally abandoned their offspring.

What is it - the crisis of the industry? Power change? Financial collapse of the project?
There are no answers to these questions yet.

The symbolic picture on the personal site of Dmitry Stepanov ( stepanov habrauzer) seems to hint to us that the farewell to Nik-Media LLC was for the creators an unpleasant surprise.

Dmitry himself points out the start-up GreenCom LLC as the current place of work for which he actively recruits Drupal / PHP web developers.

Perhaps his new project is connected with the website FUTURITI - a new service for building social media communities launched in April of this year.