Tuesday, 13 March 2012

April 18th 2012,No more Google Adsense for Domains

The end of another Google product. Google has decided to retire AdSense for Domains (AFD), which means after April 18th 2012, AdSense publihsers won't able to earn money from parked domains using their AdSence account. Google also published a list of key dates related to the hosted domain product retirement within AdSense. If you have hosted domains in your AdSense account, they can be get affected by this upcoming change, which will follow below schedule: 

Google Retiring AdSense for Hosted Domain

  1. February 22: AdSense publishers can no longer start using the Hosted domains product.
  2. March 21: You will no longer be able to create new hosted domains.
  3. April 18: Hosted domains will become inactive and it will no longer be possible to earn from them.
  4. June 27: Hosted domains will no longer be available in AdSense accounts.
Some of AdSence publishers received the following email from Google AdSence team.
We’re contacting you because you’re using AdSense for Domains to monetize your undeveloped domains. After evaluating the benefits of our partner network, we’ve decided to retire the Hosted domains product within AdSense. Going forward, undeveloped domains will only be served through our existing AdSense for Domains distribution network.
March 21: You’ll no longer be able to create new Hosted domains.
April 18: Hosted domains will become inactive and it’ll no longer be possible to earn from them.
June 27: Hosted domains will no longer be available in AdSense accounts

To continue monetizing your undeveloped domains, you can migrate your domain portfolio to any domain parking provider.
Other AdSense services like Adsense for feeds, Adsense for content and Adsense for search will continue to work as normal. If you have hosted domains under AdSense account, then it's time to move to another better parking provider as ads won't be delivered after April 18th. On June 27th, all the parked domains will be permanently removed from your AdSense program. To continue monetizing your hosted domains, then follow a guide to migrate your hosted domains to another parking provider.

You can check the status of your hosted domains in your AdSense account. Login into your AdSense account, click on Hosted Domains under Domains on the My Ads tab of your AdSense account.

More details can be found at Google Support Page.

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