What is Domain Parking?
Domain Parking is a simple way to earn money from your domains natural traffic. If you have registered domain names, but they are not currently being used, then domain parking is a great way to put those domains to work, earning you revenue. The domain is used to display relevant advertisements, every time a consumer clicks on one of the advertisements, you earn money.
No you are not going to get rich by doing this but you are going to earn extra money. If you do not take advantage of this you can believe your registrar companies will.
Here is an example of one of my domains with Parked.com, FloridaStateFairground.com, for the month of January I earned $6.37.
Let me go over what I believe to be the top three parking companies, each one is good for their own reasons.
Parked.com
My favorite of the three, I’m partial because this is who I use. In order to open an account I believe you need to have a minimum of 10 domains and that’s it. After opening an account you are assigned an account team which are helpful and friendly. On average I make about $30 per month parking my domain names here.
Sedo.com
I use them for a hundred or so of my domain names for one reason only, to save money on listing fees. If your domain is parked with Sedo and you sell through them the listing fees (normally $50) are waived. The downside to using Sedo for me has been the very low if any parking revenue.
WhyPark.com
I have not used WhyPark and can only write about what I’ve read and heard. There is an initial cost of $99 to open an account which covers 100 domain names. From what I’m seeing though WhyPark is worth the money, it’s almost like creating little mini-sites for what would equate to $0.99 each. There are a ton of site modification and options, the best part about WhyPark, you keep 100% of the revenue produced which is great.
For me parking is a big DUH, kind of like not backing up your websites. If your domain name is just sitting there then do yourself a favor and park them. You’d be surprised how much this helps, the extra cash will either pay for a few renewals or a few new registrations. As an added bonus, if the domain is making some money parked it will hold a higher value, there are niche buyers looking for parked names with revenue only.
Great Blog – Thank you
Checking them out (-:
I have 6 domains I’m not currently using, so I don’t qualify for any these. Do you have any advice as to how to get any benefit out of them?
Great question Mike, I had to think about this one.
Google is the answer
http://www.google.com/domainpark/
I’ve never used this method so didn’t post about it. If anyone has any input on using Google please let us know.
Geee…on your next post, please compare the revenue bet parking and developed sites.
parking is dead!!!
Developed sites beat parking any day anytime!!
Developed sites are better, I agree. BUT, not everyone has the extra money OR time to spend developing their domain names.
Parking is a great way to make a few extra bucks every month with little to no work.
Niche site development can be very profitable, studying that now…the course I’m doing just finished a $1 trial too… takes more work, but once they are up, seems that they can make significant $ with little to no effort.
Well, find the time or the resources to get the sites up. The investment is well worth it.
I did not know nothing about site development but took the initiative to learn and there are so many resources.
To tell you the truth, I rather spend my time doing marketing and let my sites develop by a PRO who can do it better and cheaply.
Now, I have a good design team!!!
Having no time to learn is a lame excuse.
I update most of my sites while watchin sex and city, desperate housewives..or debbie does dallas…
chef:
Great post. I have been using Parked.com for 98% of my domian names. True I don’t get a lot of money from them but enough to cover the registration.
Tip:
Start the site small—easy to manage and when it gets big, add more features and then hire a pro.
Parking does not index the site and people find the page boring. Google hates parking pages too.
Parking is only good for type in keyword domain names.
I have to disagree, a lot of people will. I’ve seen a lot of domains go from a page rank 0 to a page rank 2 or 3 by just being parked. It depends on the company you use to park and the content you put up.
Parking is not only good for type in keyword names, I have domains that I would have never imagined getting visits.
For your previous comment, it’s not always possible for people to develop. I’m sorry but you cannot speak for everyone’s financial situations. Ideally yes, create a site or mini-site and make more money.
My point with this post is if you are not doing anything with the domain name then AT LEAST park it.
Yeah I have way too many domains at the moment and I park all of them, and if I have time to develop one, I unpark it and start to work on it.
Regarding Sedo, the removed the requirement that you need to park with them for at least a month to waive the $50 min commission. So you can just list your domains there, and if you get an offer you can just switch the nameservers before negotiating or pushing to auction.
Also, I just recently switched everything over to Fabulous parking and I was seriously impressed with the platform. Their auto keyword/category recognition is second to none, which makes it very easy if you need to set up hundreds of domains. They also have a pretty extensive image library. I found it really easy to customize the pages.
The main reason I switched to Fabulous is the prominent “for sale” banners they have. I kept hearing of people switching to Fab and getting more offers in a shorter period of time. Sedo only has a small link saying the domain “may” be for sale, and they have to be Sedo members to make an offer. Fab lets them fill out a contact form that gets mailed to you, so it requires almost no effort on their part.
Fab’s payouts are also really good, comparable to Parked and Domain Sponsor. But then you have the added benefit of picking up a few extra sales now and then.
So what park do you recommend? Most parking landing pages are getting stale aka boring.
I know I cannot speak for anyone on the planet that why we have discussions base on our life experiences.
Bottom line, find the time to develop the domains, you will be glad to see the earnings up.
It works on mine and it will work on yours too.
I am here to help you succeed!!!
Nice article, simple info on some of the best revenue sites for domain owners. For clarification, anyone can open up an account for only $99 at WhyPark, even if you only have a few domains.
The advantage of having a WhyPark account is that you have 100 slots for content development on your domains, as you buy them. If your domains aren’t making money on great parking services like Parked.com (because they don’t get typein traffic), then WhyPark will help you build out “organic search engine traffic”, with content feeds changing daily/weekly.
Parking your domain at a parking service will NOT get your domain indexed with search engines such as Google and Yahoo. You need to have relevant content on your page, not just adlinks, on your domain pages to get the SE’s to index your domain. This is one of the biggest selling points for domain investors who want to build value for their domains.
If you are parking your domains and do a review of their traffic stats weekly, you’ll quickly note which domains are NOT getting typein traffic. Those domains are just sitting there doing nothing. They aren’t being indexed, and they aren’t generating PPC income for you. The NEW strategy is to select your favorite generic domains and move them to a WhyPark account. Place your own keywords, add extra pages and your own content to customize your site. Add photos, adlinks, storefronts, CPA’s (Cost Per Action) links, and keep 100% of your revenue. It’s like having 100 writers creating content for your website for only $.99 per domain. It’s the hottest new system and revenue path for domainers.
Bottom line: Domainers, stop wasting time and losing value on your non-PPC domains – there is a new powerful tool for you to start getting your domains indexed and positioned for revenue-generation. WhyPark
If you want deeper customization, Whypark has a pro team of SEO experts and custom writers for you, all available for as little as $29 a month. Push your favorite domain to the top of the keyword search results by using WhyPark’s amazing platform.
Some people hesitate because the minimum account costs $99 for 100 domains. However, if you can’t afford to spend $99 to invest in increasing the value in your domains, maybe you should stick with your day job!
ChefPatrick… i wanted to tell you how me and some domainer buddies talked about how powerful that brand was… memorable. Congrats!
stephen douglas—hello Sir–I knew you will be here to chime in your ParkWhy.
BTW, can you show us some some of websites that ParkWhyPark host.
Again, we all agree, developed sites worth more in gold.
If you want to earn more revenue, get your butt in developing those domains.
If you need help in finding good quality developers, let me or ChefPatrick know.
So what cooking at Pat’s kitchen? I am hungry for some good homey clam chowder.
My problem with Parked.com was the 2 page lander. I don’t understand why they can’t make a 1 page lander the standard.
My only thought is to cut down on click fraud.
The difference is that 2 click landers give higher payouts and show the advertiser (and aggregator) better quality visitors.
1 click landers tend to encourage click fraud, as the Chef says, and brings poorer quality visitors for the advertisers.
Stephen is totally correct. Two click lander give highers payouts and also give more choices for the visitors and help you to know what your visitors really looking for.
Zander, You still can ask your Parked rep to switch your domain(s) to one click lander.
Good Luck.
anybody can show me some examples of whypark sites?
thanks
@BullS,
God I wish you’d change your nome de plume, Bullsh*t.
Check out these sites:
airlinerewards.com
gotelepresence.com
digitalmammogram.com
addressguide.com
This shows the level of approach to building out domains at Whypark. The last site I have done nothing with, cost me $.99 to set up, and I’m finally getting it indexed after three months. Before that, it got nothing at other PS’s.
Anyone with questions, please contact me directly. Peace… *thanks Patrick*
Hey Stephen, Buddha gave me that name and I am the chosen one and best of all GoDaddy’s Dania P blessed my Bull*shitWebsites dot com via her cleavage.
Yea, thanks for the examples of ParkWhyPark.
$99 per yer for ParkWhy hosting is quite expensive.
@BullSh*t,
The $99 charge is a one-time fee, not yearly as you indicate. If you want continuing managed custom content applied to your website/domain, you can apply for it and our system will provide you with more content, original, and set you up for SE indexing beyond the “Standard Level” of the one-time cost of $99.
The key to remember with WhyPark is that if your domains aren’t making anything at the other parking services because they get no typeins, then get them on Whypark so you can get organic search engine traffic by bringing in content to your website. Every domainer knows that keeping a domain that makes no traffic parked at a TPS means that domain never gets indexed by the SE’s … and if it doesn’t get indexed, then your domain gets no organic traffic.
I pay a website manager 300 bucks a year for the tools i use to build my site and for my domain name but i do my own website building. I dont have the funds to pay for it this year and want to park it. I only have this one URL and want to keep it until i have the time to work on my site. Any good ideas? And how do you go about parking it?