Unfortunately we have had to terminate our program because of a recent change in the Google AdSense TOS which disallows a swath of legitimate advertising opportunities for the AdWords advertising community. If anyone knows of an XML-based search feed that pays more then a fraction of a cent per-click (one that isn't a scam, as they all have turned out to be), please send this information to admin at doaminbucks dot net. We are extremely sorry for the impact this has had on our publishers. Google has decided to withhold payment from us so we will be unable to send payments from April or March. We are negotiating with Google to try to mend this, and if we are successful, we will of course send all pending payments to our users (from before we switched over to the new AdSense revenue sharing model). In any case, all users affected will be compensated nicely with free traffic and other goodies if we are able to find a legitimate alternative to AdSense. In the past few months we have been accepted by over thirty separate Ad Networks, and we have found the vast majority of these to be either scams, pyramid schemes, or condemnable organizations which have otherwise demonstrated a blatant disregard for the publisher community. We are dismayed by the fact that we must now count Google among these. It appears a great light as gone out.
We are disappointed that Google and other major players in the contextual advertising industry have allowed greed to corrupt their originally good-intentioned programs and services. Google, the same Google whose sole promise to the world has been to 'do no evil', has successfully poisoned the advertising community into believing that domain-parking traffic is harmful to advertisers even though my colleagues and I know this to be false. We have targeted domain parking pages in many of our other ventures and have had excellent conversion rates and traffic. The traffic is good, and whatever Google says to the contrary is simply an attempt to further defraud their advertisers. Google's propaganda campaign has been so thorough that AdWords users have begun preventing their ads from being shown on Google's own domain parking network (AdSense for Domains).
Now the obvious question is 'why don't you just use AdSense for Domains instead of AdSense?'. The answer to this question is equally disheartening. If you look around the internet for information on AdSense for Domains, all you will find is masses of people complaining that Google would sink so low as to allow advertising on parked domains (even though experience has shown us that parking traffic performs much better then accidental ad clicks on blogs and other content based media, which is what Google has led the advertising community to think of as 'high quality traffic') What you won't find when you read up on AdSense for Domains (and what people should really be complaining about) is that when you actually go to sign up for AdSense for Domains, you find that Google stopped accepting new registrations long ago. In fact, AdSense for Domains was really only intended for Google's buddies in the domain parking industry, GoDaddy and Sedo (it is estimated that Sedo, by the way, pays only 8-10% of the ad revenue to their publishers). AdSense for Domains was only created so Google could gain a monopoly over the domain parking market by inducting the world's largest registrar and the world's biggest domain auction site into their scheme.
We tried applying for AdSense for Domains more then eight times and received the same automatic response every time.
Expect another update shortly.
Apologetically,
Sam K.