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I often see posts and comments regarding the decline in PPC revenue over the last few years. Some of the decline has leveled off or even increased slightly perhaps, but it’s nowhere near the levels it once was.

I’ve never really bought domain names based on PPC revenue. As a result, my monthly parking income is probably in the ballpark of $300 +/- depending on various factors. I am sure there are plenty of people still making a living from PPC revenue, and I am sure there are plenty of others who don’t make much at all.

Someone who often reads and comments on my blog asked me if I could post a survey asking how much others are making monthly. He is more curious about revenue from domain names with pure type-in traffic. I am not really sure if people can easily break that out since most portfolios are made up of a mixture.

In any case, here’s a poll below the jump for you to share your monthly PPC earnings. You are welcome to comment on the state of parking if you wish.

Because of the TRAFFIC conference, this list of newly added domain brokerage listings is a bit abbreviated. If any of the names are of interest to you, contact the listing broker.

If you’d like to share a domain name you are selling, feel free to list it in the comment section. If you want to buy something, contact the seller directly. As always, you are welcome to only submit one domain name that hasn’t been marketed for sale before as long as you include a buy it now price. Don’t like to “make offer” listings.

Before listing, keep in mind people can like or dislike your submission, so don’t post something if you are afraid of possible criticism. No commentary on the submissions is allowed.

If you don’t see anything you like here, check out  Nokta Domains, as they have a large portfolio of domain names for sale.

• Zinc.com – $100,000 – NameConnect.com
• Split.com – $200,000 – Cax.com
• Tamed.com – 4,500 – Domain Agents
• Ratify.com – $75,000 – Sedo (Dave Evanson)

In January of 2012, Escrow.com announced that the company had surpassed $1 billion in transactions. Just a little over a year later, and the company has closed an additional half a billion in total transactions. From my perspective, the growth rate is as impressive as the total transaction volume.

According to a press release this morning, “Escrow.com is pleased to announce that they have surpassed $1.5 Billion in secured settled transactions and continues to establish itself as the leading provider of secure business and transaction management on the Internet.”

Since Escrow.com is the preferred escrow service of Ebay, Cars.com, and other companies, I don’t know what percentage of this huge dollar amount is domain sales. I would guess it’s a considerable amount considering the widespread usage of the company’s services across the domain industry.

Congratulations to the team at Escrow.com, and as always, I appreciate the company’s sponsorship of my blog.

Here’s the press release announcing the news:

Mike Mann is the founder of Buy Domains, Domain Market, and a number of other Internet companies such as SEO.com and Phone.com (three of his companies made the 2012 Inc 500 list). He also happens to be a polarizing individual, and some people have strong opinions of him.

If you don’t follow his Facebook account, you can see evidence of this by the number of Fake Mike Mann and/or Mike Mann parody Twitter accounts that have been created.  Here are just a few of them that I found this morning: