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.

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No, parking companies are not closing shop, YET.

As reported on many of the domainer sites Google is now allowing domain owners to directly park with them. Use this link to view the details directly from Google’s blog.

I will be the first to go on record and say that this time next year parking companies will be obsolete. Does this mean run and move all of your domain names to Google, absolutely not.  Just like anything new it has to be tested and tweaked several times before its right.  As of now you will still gain more traffic and money by parking companies.  With a parking company you have more control over the keywords used, optimization, visual appearance and content.

This will change, Google will have these things worked out and perfected, it will just take time.

In the mean time, while they are working out the details, get your domains parked. I know too many domainers that do nothing with their domains. Once they are acquired they sit, why not park them in the mean time and earn a couple dollars? I have accounts with Sedo and Parked, each have their own benefits.  If selling your domain name through Sedo or GreatDomains is your goal then park with Sedo.  By parking your domain with them you avoid the $50 minimum sales charge.  If your looking for greater flexibility and higher payouts, Parked is the way to go.

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Originally I wanted to meet with Donny Simonton of Parked.com because I own a little over 700 domains and had no clue what parking was. I am somewhat new to the business and did not know what to do with all of them. After reading about his company and their accomplishments I wanted to consider parking some domains.

We emailed back and forth a few times on one of the domainer forums. After a few brief talks he took me up on my offer for lunch. A few days later I met him at his Tampa, FL headquarters.

What I saw made me sick to my stomach…

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