Lions, Tigers and Bear, Oh my... 2000 domains not doing anything

[wastenot]

Hi all,

Some opinions please...

If you had 2000+ under-utilized (published but minimal traffic) or unpublished domains covering about 100+/- categories, what would you do with them?

Some suggestions have been to:

1. build them out, creating generically usable sites with syndicated content
2. Move them to parking sites (parked, sedo, etc...)
3. Create my own parking system

What would some of the rest of you do with this kind of border-line dead inventory...?

Thanks in advance for your time and thoughts

[has2hands]

Hello,

sell some off...you are paying $14,000 each year for renewals.

develop them, looks like parking as we know it may being dying.

my 2 cents.

paul

[gingeman]

completely depends on the quality of the names.

[ComScout.com]

Hello,

sell some off...you are paying $14,000 each year for renewals.

develop them, looks like parking as we know it may being dying.

my 2 cents.

paul

Developing them would take ages, I have nearly 180 names which I have made into BANS stores, see my sig ... it does working, slowly seeing the results, plus the Ebay affiliates are great with Bans, I made 1 months commission in one day with ebay compared to what I was getting with sedo parking.

[acronym007]

You have to treat each domain as an asset and handle accordingly. It took me a long time to learn this but you can't lump them all into one category or put them all in one place. It would depend on the quality as well but I would vote against creating your own parking system unless your going to create your own feeds. You'll always have to to use of the big boys somewhere along the process.

Also, consider selling some to fund other projects if you need cash. BANS, development, parking, selling are all reasonable solutions.

Remember the quality over quantity rule, it helps in this business.

[wastenot]

So far, a big Thanks! to everyone.

My domain bill goes pretty high and would like to get these into some kind of production environment. The quality varies with names and lengths, as well as ease of use and branding. Overall, they are pretty good with almost everything under 15 and name/niche specific. We have some very high quality dom's that just didn't ever get completed. On a scale of 1-10, I would rate these in the 6-8 range.


I looked at namedrive, fabulous and some others, but didn't care much for sedo and TDname. We've never parked a domain in 10+ years. We always built them out.

Has anyone used namdrive's API or SuperURL system? It looks interesting. How about Fabulous' premium wholesale service? Any experience or info on these?

When you say that Domain Parking as "known" looks to be dying - What isn't working? Is there a better way or are there pieces missing?

When mentioning BANS - Is there a mass or multi-domain deployment option for this?

Again, thanks for all and any feedback

[draggar]

Sounds like what I'm going though now, but at 1/10th the size (~200 domains for me, not 2000).

Sell all of the junk, even at $5 each. If it doesn't sell, drop it. Be ruthless. As has2hands said, that's roughly $14K in renewal fees a year (that's a car to me).

What you have left are either good domains or traffic domains. Start building sites, even if it's just a simple WP blog with a free template. Update it once or twice a week with relevant content. Google likes current pages so keeping them updated with the right keywords will keep you high on the list (and being high on the list brings in more traffic).

[Tia Wood]

1) Audit your portfolio to find duds and certain sites to develop
1.5) If you have a huge portfolio, do them 500 at a time.
2) Split them into 4 different categories: Develop, Sell, Park, Undecided
3) Park the ones in the "parked" category
4) Sell the ones in the "sell" category
5) Create sub-categories of the "develop" category: 1st Priority, 2nd Priority, 3rd Priority.
1st Priority = Any site that will make money easy or become popular easy (niche content, services, social networking, products you may have, etc)
2nd Priority = Sites that are a little harder to launch. Maybe you need to pay someone to help or it requires research, etc.
3rd Priority = Sites that require extreme development
6) Develop the 1st Priorty, working to 3rd. Keep up with stats, tweak as necessary.

Hope that helps.

[NetworkMsia]

select the best 5, and develop them into SUPER sites.
select about 200, and make quick mini sites.
the rest park them, or sell them
=)

[Adapt Web]

I'd park them all for 2 weeks to see which ones have traffic. Then start dividing them up from there..

If they have traffic and can cover the yearly reg fee, keep them.
If theres minimal traffic and the name is OK - develop it.
If theres minimal traffic name sucks - sell or let expire.
If theres no traffic and name is good - sell or develop.
If no traffic and sucky name - expire or attempt to sell.

[mmkrulz]

I'd park them all for 2 weeks to see which ones have traffic. Then start dividing them up from there..

If they have traffic and can cover the yearly reg fee, keep them.
If theres minimal traffic and the name is OK - develop it.
If theres minimal traffic name sucks - sell or let expire.
If theres no traffic and name is good - sell or develop.
If no traffic and sucky name - expire or attempt to sell.

that seems to be the best game plan, very practical. I would second it, if the choice was mine to make on those 2000 domains.