To Park or NOT to Park?

[steveto]

When is it a good time to park if there is such a thing?

As you can see from my other posts I am relatively new to monetizing my domains. The only reason I chose to park was because 90% of my domains were not nor have ever been indexed in google...so I figured..ok, I will park them..let them get a bit of traffic..indexing faster etc...

Parking will never make as much money for you as if you built a simple adsense site up yourself..or am I wrong? At least that was my interpretation from reading posts on this forum?

So my question is to everyone..Why do you park? If you have XXXX amount of domains..wouldn't it be better to have your own parking program that you built or just use your domains to network traffic to each other?

Sorry for all the noob questions...

[biggedon]

Originally Posted by steveto

When is it a good time to park if there is such a thing?

As you can see from my other posts I am relatively new to monetizing my domains. The only reason I chose to park was because 90% of my domains were not nor have ever been indexed in google...so I figured..ok, I will park them..let them get a bit of traffic..indexing faster etc...

Parking will never make as much money for you as if you built a simple adsense site up yourself..or am I wrong? At least that was my interpretation from reading posts on this forum?

So my question is to everyone..Why do you park? If you have XXXX amount of domains..wouldn't it be better to have your own parking program that you built or just use your domains to network traffic to each other?

Sorry for all the noob questions...

I...

park because it's easier than building a website w/adsense

park because I'm lazy

park because once the money starts rolling in....why change a good thing


having a site with adsense is no guarantee that you will make more money.

as it all depends on the domain and the ads that appear on your site.

parking is the automatic thing you do....until you do something else with the domain!

[rbedell]

Originally Posted by biggedon

parking is the automatic thing you do....until you do something else with the domain!

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[MIR]

1+1=2

[MacyT.]

I don't think I'm the only who doesn't have the time nor the expertise to build my own parking programming. But if you do - then go for it.

[simon johnson]

It all comes down to time and $$$. If you have a large portfolio of names, then either:

1. Park them - test, optimize and revisit them later.
2. Get someone else to develop them and share in the profit.
3. Spent time developing them one by one.

If you have a few good names, then you might want to spend a bit of time building the site, generating traffic and a solid user-base to sell to. So many options!

[WebCash]

Hi,
I am new looking for advice. I have a few domain names from previous business I do not wish to use as a site but to park.

Could someone walk me through the process?

I have the sites registered at ww.register.com now

Would I be better to move to godaddy or is there a one site to meet all needs?

I am aware of park.com, would about afternic for listing?

My understanding is the park site set up the ppc? I realize I am asking a lot of open questions, but I guess I do not know what I do not know.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[pen]

WebCash, first find a parking program (GoDaddy, Parked, ParkingPanel, Sedo etc)

then go through their submission procedure. Once you are accepted at a company, go to your registrar and modify the name servers of your domains to point them at the new company. Generally speaking any parking company will have support that can walk you through this process.

[simon johnson]

Try a number of parking companies - there are significant earnings differences between them.

[BELLC1]

Webcash -- the first thing you need to do is move it away from register.com to a more responsible, ethical registrar. They have a horrible history for taking domains under false pretenses.

Once you have it at a new registrar, make sure it is in your current business name and not the "previous business" name.

Just my 2 cents.

[sdsinc]

Parking is worthwhile if you have good traffic. Anyway, it's best to park unused domains and test for traffic than let them collect the dust. Even if you earn peanuts with parking it could still be enough to pay renewal fees until you decide to develop your names or sell them...
Basically you have nothing to lose.

Originally Posted by BELLC1

Webcash -- the first thing you need to do is move it away from register.com to a more responsible, ethical registrar. They have a horrible history for taking domains under false pretenses.
...

By the way why pay a crappy registrar $35/y for a name when you can have the same for $7, and register.com wants you to phone them to get your EPP code

[WebCash]

I have a new domain I want to park registered at godaddy. Godaddy has two plans for parking (Basic $3.99 a month and Premium $9.99 a month) does parked.com charge?
If so what are the fees?
Is godaddy Premium worth the extra?

[BGray]

No, you should not pay for parking. The point of it is for them to pay you. Parked.com is a good option and no they don't charge you. If you just have one name you might also try sedo.com or namedrive.com.

[dcristo]

If you have development ideas for your names, run with it, you will be better off in the long term, that's for sure. Parking companies make a killing from lazy domainers.

[WebCash]

If I park my domain with Sedo, could I also do build a nich store http://www.buildanichestore.com or are these two different ways to generate income that are mutual exclusive?
Also what about http://www.whypark.com/ as a DIY?

[dcristo]

Originally Posted by WebCash

If I park my domain with Sedo, could I also do build a nich store http://www.buildanichestore.com or are these two different ways to generate income that are mutual exclusive?
Also what about http://www.whypark.com/ as a DIY?

You park, or develop, it's one or the other.

[Luke4u]

Lack of time is the main reason for parking ...