Bodis cease operations
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After serving as the Director of Business Development at Bodis for 10½ years, I joined Above.com five months ago.
Founded in 2008, Above made a deliberate decision early on to build a direct advertiser network and rotation platform to optimize and maximize domain revenues, while others pursued single-partner strategies. That two-decade head start places us in a uniquely strong position today. We offer unparalleled Ad coverage without putting your domains at risk.
While some may accept serving malvertising for a quick buck, we believe we have a moral obligation to protect your valuable assets.
Launching soon is our new G RSOC product for generic organic domains, the first solution to offer domain level reporting. Why does this matter? Because offering revenue per domain reporting allows us to scale efficiently without the typical bottlenecks seen elsewhere. No more waiting months for emails to tell you that 2 out of 20,000 domains have been approved. We’re committed to generating revenue across your entire portfolio, not just parts of it.
We have G, Y! , Maximizer direct Ads, all to Maximize your earnings, and a cost price Registrar to save you money. It’s our way of saying thank you and supporting you to keep more domains registered.
I almost forgot!, we also have a domain Marketplace to help you sell domains with the lowest fees of just 3%.
Interested to find out more? Drop me an email at james.tup***@above.com .
James
Founded in 2008, Above made a deliberate decision early on to build a direct advertiser network and rotation platform to optimize and maximize domain revenues, while others pursued single-partner strategies. That two-decade head start places us in a uniquely strong position today. We offer unparalleled Ad coverage without putting your domains at risk.
While some may accept serving malvertising for a quick buck, we believe we have a moral obligation to protect your valuable assets.
Launching soon is our new G RSOC product for generic organic domains, the first solution to offer domain level reporting. Why does this matter? Because offering revenue per domain reporting allows us to scale efficiently without the typical bottlenecks seen elsewhere. No more waiting months for emails to tell you that 2 out of 20,000 domains have been approved. We’re committed to generating revenue across your entire portfolio, not just parts of it.
We have G, Y! , Maximizer direct Ads, all to Maximize your earnings, and a cost price Registrar to save you money. It’s our way of saying thank you and supporting you to keep more domains registered.
I almost forgot!, we also have a domain Marketplace to help you sell domains with the lowest fees of just 3%.
Interested to find out more? Drop me an email at james.tup***@above.com .
James
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James, congratulations on the new role. A genuine question, though, one that the less experienced members of this forum deserve an honest answer to.
Bodis ceased operating on January 31st 2026. You spent ten and a half years there as Director of Business Development. The model you helped develop and promote for over a decade has just closed its doors. That's not a criticism of you personally, but it is relevant context when assessing the pitch that follows.
Domain parking has been in structural decline since Google tightened its feed policies in the mid-2000s. Every platform that has come and gone in the intervening twenty years has made broadly the same promises. Direct advertiser relationships. Superior ad coverage. Portfolio-wide monetisation. Malvertising protection. These aren't innovations; they're the standard checklist that has been recycled by every parking platform for two decades.
Domain-level reporting being presented as a breakthrough in 2026 is perhaps the most telling detail. The fact that this is positioned as pioneering tells you precisely where the ceiling of ambition is in this space.
The 3% marketplace fee is the one concrete and genuinely competitive number in the post. Everything else is marketing language without metrics.
Nobody here should be dismissive of Above.com without giving them a fair chance to demonstrate results. But the forum would be doing newer members a disservice by not pointing out that the person making this pitch has just stepped off a platform that couldn't sustain itself, to sell a model that has been declining industry-wide for the better part of two decades.
Bodis ceased operating on January 31st 2026. You spent ten and a half years there as Director of Business Development. The model you helped develop and promote for over a decade has just closed its doors. That's not a criticism of you personally, but it is relevant context when assessing the pitch that follows.
Domain parking has been in structural decline since Google tightened its feed policies in the mid-2000s. Every platform that has come and gone in the intervening twenty years has made broadly the same promises. Direct advertiser relationships. Superior ad coverage. Portfolio-wide monetisation. Malvertising protection. These aren't innovations; they're the standard checklist that has been recycled by every parking platform for two decades.
Domain-level reporting being presented as a breakthrough in 2026 is perhaps the most telling detail. The fact that this is positioned as pioneering tells you precisely where the ceiling of ambition is in this space.
The 3% marketplace fee is the one concrete and genuinely competitive number in the post. Everything else is marketing language without metrics.
Nobody here should be dismissive of Above.com without giving them a fair chance to demonstrate results. But the forum would be doing newer members a disservice by not pointing out that the person making this pitch has just stepped off a platform that couldn't sustain itself, to sell a model that has been declining industry-wide for the better part of two decades.