Parking Questions

[FastActionDomains]

1. Where is the best place to park domains?
2. How do you select domains for parking?
3. What's a good click through rate for a parked domain?
3. Does traffic from expired domains have a lower click through rate than type in traffic?

Thanks in advance!

[Dale Hubbard]

1. Where is the best place to park domains?
2. How do you select domains for parking?
3. What's a good click through rate for a parked domain?
3. Does traffic from expired domains have a lower click through rate than type in traffic?

Thanks in advance!

1. No specific answer to that.
2. Those that you can't be bothered to develop.
3. As long as a piece of string.
3 (3). Depends on the backlinks.

[biggedon]

1. Where is the best place to park domains?
2. How do you select domains for parking?
3. What's a good click through rate for a parked domain?
4. Does traffic from expired domains have a lower click through rate than type in traffic?

Thanks in advance!

1. agree with Dale, the exception is Fabulous for gambling related domains.

2. park each/every domain first, then selectively develop later.

3. 1 click a year is enough, if the EPC pays more than the registration or renewal fee for that domain, but anything over 10% is good.

i have registered domains that have paid over $9.00 a click, and reg fee was only $8.00.

if you are getting 1 out of every 10 visitors to click on a link within that parked page, then potential is there to increase that percentage.

4. "type-in traffic domains" may have once "expired" and where "caught", then parked or developed.

4a. note: most expired domains may not have any traffic at all...that's probably why the previous owners did not renew the registration.

4b. note: those expired domains that do have traffic, their previous owners may have let them expire because they never parked them or developed them, so there they saw no value.

4c. many previous owners of domains don't have knowledge of domain trading, so if they registered a domain for a project that failed, they just let it expire. the domain may have been a good, generic term with type-in traffic, but they never generated any stats to notice that.

4d. some people just forget to renew the names that expire, they change email addresses, phone numbers and don't update whois.


imo...

[Focus]

I have found excellent results with parked.com, although right now yahoo search engine based feeds like the one at parked seem to have far less advertisers than google for obvious reasons (their size and the economy). I know people who have great success with Domain Sponsor and others who swear by sedo.com for International traffic, porno traffic, and other hard to park stuff. If I have a new domain name with US traffic, the first place I park it is at parked.com because they simply have the best program going overall, are easy to use, have the best templates, and much more. So I choose them, hands down. That being said, some domains will perform better on a google based or alternate feed using a company like sedo or Domain Sponsor.

[Dale Hubbard]

FastActionDomains:

There's expert, concise and experienced help for you above. Try Big's and Focus' advice. They know this stuff.