SEM Tycoon

**freetraff** · 07-03-2006, 06:34 AM

I am working over virtual real estate project, and have my personal opinion about parking as forum of domain monetization (don't want to share it so that this not affects the poll's validity).

Is domain parking good for you?

Do you use it?

If you adore, can you explain why? If you hate it, why?

Any ideas from money-wit minds would help.

**Fredto** · 07-03-2006, 06:37 AM

I have one domain parked with Sedo and, probably because of the nature of the domain, it generated absolutely no money.

I heard from some people that you can make at least a bit with parking. I suppose it depends on what kind of parking you use.

**reteep** · 07-03-2006, 06:44 AM

Voted for no, I don't think it's worth it.

**Muhammad Haris** · 07-03-2006, 07:19 AM

I had never made any money with domains, Domain monetization only depends on what the domain is for example ebaey.com or ebaye.com would make money with domain parking!

**imported_punkstar** · 07-03-2006, 08:16 AM

I am generally against the whole parking a domain thing. I think that if you buy a domain you should use it. Although I did park a domain there once and it made ~$40 p/m.

**Hoang** · 07-03-2006, 09:11 AM

I vored for no. A couple months ago, I had a few domains parked at SEDO and NameDrive but only made a few dollars at the most every month. I'm able to do much, much better by developing the site -- even a mini site.

**Ready2Learn** · 07-03-2006, 09:14 AM

I have used domain parking for a while and have been able to make decent money at it. You can't just park a domain and walk away from it and expect to make money. For me the best return was parking a domain I no longer wanted that ranked high in the SERPS for some popular keywords. It takes a couple of months for the search engines to drop your ranking and then remove you, but it's a nice stream of cash in the mean time.

For a standard parking scenario, I would stick to typo domains. There is no need to promote them and you don't have to do any work in monetization. Otherwise I would put good content on the site and build it up in the SERPS.

John

**naramation** · 07-03-2006, 09:17 AM

I have about 45 domains that I'm currently not using, so I park them at SEDO until I need them.

**sitedesigner** · 07-03-2006, 09:41 AM

I have never tried it out. Does it cost money? I don't think it would be as proffitable as starting a site up on the domain...

**beley** · 07-03-2006, 10:54 AM

I think it would probably be easier to make money actually running the sites. The pres. of GoDaddy had an article about parking not too long ago - more specifically about the practice of snatching expired domains, parking w/ advertising, then letting them lapse so the registrar only had to pay a small fee instead of the full reg fee if they're not profitable.

Apparently they're getting away with only paying a few cents and they get to use the domain for a long time getting ad revenues off it.

Here's the article:
http://www.bobparsons.com/adddropsch...ml?serendipity[searchTerm]=park

I don't think it's something most of us could do... I think you have to be a registrar or at least have a minimum number of domains to do it.

**Muhammad Haris** · 07-03-2006, 11:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matthew

I have never tried it out. Does it cost money? I don't think it would be as proffitable as starting a site up on the domain...

No, Just go at sedo.com and register your domains to park them and earn money!

**Zalaki** · 07-03-2006, 12:04 PM

Maybe ill try this for my domains that site around doing nothing lol

**handsome rob** · 07-03-2006, 01:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thien

I vored for no. A couple months ago, I had a few domains parked at SEDO and NameDrive but only made a few dollars at the most every month. I'm able to do much, much better by developing the site -- even a mini site.

I voted for yes. DN parking is not about getting rich off of one good name (though people have). It's about building a portfolio.

If you buy a domain for $8 and park it and it makes $5/mo, you're probably not going to be able to retire on that. But if you buy 999 other domains for $8/ea and they all make $5/mo ea... well now you've got a passive income of $52k/yr after reg fees and you didn't have to work half as hard as you would have to make that site or mini site.

The problem is that not all domains make $5/mo, and the people who own the ones that do have no reason to let them expire. Maybe you buy a hot domain off someone else for the equivalent of 1-year's revenue, and in 6 months, trends change and the traffic dies. There's more to parking than just regging any ol' DN and throwing it up on Sedo. This is where cctlds, drop catching, domain auctions, etc come into play.

**sitedesigner** · 07-03-2006, 03:18 PM

dub post. sry