Hosted domains are going away from Adsense

by Vishwajeet Kumar Blogger

Google Will Stop The Hosted Domain Services from April 18, 2012.

If you have hosted domains in your AdSense account, they will be affected by this upcoming change, which will follow the schedule below:

February 22: AdSense publishers can no longer start using the Hosted domains product.
March 21: You will no longer be able to create new hosted domains.
April 18: Hosted domains will become inactive and it will no longer be possible to earn from them.
June 27: Hosted domains will no longer be available in AdSense accounts.

Your hosted domains will continue to accrue earnings until April 18, when they will stop showing ads. As of the last day of April 2012, your earnings will be finalized as usual. At this point, one of the following will apply:

If your earnings exceed the payment threshold, your account will be sent for approval for payment, and payments will be issued through the standard AdSense payment process.

If your earnings do not exceed the payment threshold, but you use other AdSense products, your Hosted domains earnings will be accrued toward payment in a future period when your AdSense account does exceed the payment threshold.

If your earnings do not exceed the payment threshold and you don’t use other AdSense products then the amount of accrued earnings from your hosted domains will remain as a balance in your AdSense account for as long as your account is open.

Reports and earnings

Reporting on your hosted domains and corresponding channels will remain available until April 18, 2013. Even though you will no longer be able to access Hosted domain settings and channels, you will be able to see historical performance of them on the Performance reports page of your AdSense account.