best way to park spare domains?

[ryanng]

do people actually make money by using those paid domain parking service, e.g. sedo? or it's more profitable for us to create a single page with a google adsense ads. on?

[dcristo]

It's more profitable setting up your own landing pages as you dont have to share PPC with parking providers.

[1EightT]

google also has a domain parking service, but you have to have quite a few domains and lots of traffic to qualify.

[UmbrellaTechnologies]

On Sept 1st my company will open the best parking system on the net. I have many page ranked domains and needed to park them where they would not lose rank. I also have a friend who sends me lists of page ranked domains to buy and I post them here: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=109832 - I need a good parking system. So we are in the last stages of building one. Here are a few features:

Fully Search engine compatable (Both I and the backend developer are top SEO experts)
Automatic, makes 3 to 14 pages
You can manage title, description, keywords
You name the pages (index.html, index.php, index.asp, etc)
You manage the menu names (home Page, contact Page, etc)
Your adwords account is used
You manage welcome message for each page
You manage text links in footer of each page
Automatic generation of 3 site maps (html, rss, ror)
System will have choice of 10+ headers and 10+ css sheets (for 100+ look and feels)
System you see is using RSS news feeds
Public system will have a choice of RSS feeds, articles or your content
Article system can increase the site by 10 pages on every spider visit
Cost is:
RSS Feed style $1 per month, per domain
Article Style $2 per month, per domain
Your content $3 per month, per domain
With your account you will also have access to expired domains that have page rank.

If you want to know when the system is ready send me a PM with your email address

http://www.radioloveless.com - This is one of the parked domains on the prototype system.

[UmbrellaTechnologies]

Sedo is a joke. I have had 94 domains parked there for two months and have a total of 54 cents in revenue. What a waste

[dcristo]

If that's all your getting from a portfolio of that size, something tells me you dont get traffic. Sedo aint that bad, there actually one of the best.

[Olney]

There's also NameDrive
The system is pretty simple to use.
The staff sometimes pop into my forum for feedback.
Sedo is also currently making their system better too.

People are making money you just have to actually optimize your domains.

[Correctus]

Write an article for your domain's niche and put it on its home page, then do a little SEO for it, get some BL's and put Google Adsense on it, I guarantee you will earn better

IT

[GreenGambler]

I agree that you will probably make more by developing them into mini-sites with ads. However if you don't have the time for that there are some parking companies that will allow you to insert you Adsense account # or you own ads and banners onto the parked page. This is handy too.

[websiteideas]

Why not just get an unlimited domain hosting account at a place like Hostgator where you only pay $10 a month to host unlimited domains on one account? Then, you can simply use the add on feature of cpanel to create mini websites for each domain.

[ryanng]

that's what i am doing, with a different hosting service provider though... still a lot of work if you have quite a few sites... that's why i am looking for simpler solutions :-)

Why not just get an unlimited domain hosting account at a place like Hostgator where you only pay $10 a month to host unlimited domains on one account? Then, you can simply use the add on feature of cpanel to create mini websites for each domain.

[robi3]

Nathosting.com has also very cheap prices, compare it. Write your sugestion.

[KASHANWEB]

How is parked.com? is it better than namedrive.com?

[Buga]

Ive seen good results with Sedo, just depends on the domain name quality

[stringerbell]

I'm fairly new to the domaining thing. But, it seems to me that all the parking sites are geared towards monetizing the small trickle of type-in traffic. I have similar numbers to those mentioned above (Sedo & NameDrive). But, it's not because there's no traffic potential - it's because the majority of my domain names are a format that none of the parking companies seem to be able to deal with: DOMAIN HACKS!

For instance, one of my domains is Win.gs

If left to their own devices, the parking companies will throw up ads about island gambling - not anything to do with wings (airline tickets, etc...). Their computers will assume that the domain name is win, not wings.

And, no one looking for an airline domain will ever find mine - because searches for 'wings' (on SEDO, for instance) won't produce my domain.

Add this to the fact that there's very little type in traffic for domain hacks (they're highly brandable, but unlike .com's, people just assume they don't exist unless they know to specifically look for them).

So, none of the parking systems will really work for my domains. That's why I'm going to try the new service listed above. It sounds like EXACTLY what I've been looking for... A form of monetization that might actually bring in traffic instead of just sitting back and waiting for the traffic to find you...

Cheers,

Bob

[Alis]

Well , have regestered domains that i dont use giving correct keywords to them create allot of money ,

sedo.com
parked.com
afternic.com

They give allot of euro + $ but its basis on the keywords.

Sedo is the cheif of parking co. A unusuall traffic will be risky..(Dont cheat because they dont eat)

[Cryogenius]

I've always been happy with freeparking.com/freeparking.co.uk, though I don't think that they offer as many features as some other companies.

Cryo.

[zachbb]

I make in the mid hundreds of $$ a month from domain parking alone.. so yes, it does work. :)

[ryanng]

curious how many domains needed to generate such revenue? over a thousand?

I make in the mid hundreds of $$ a month from domain parking alone.. so yes, it does work. :)

[Alis]

Have 3 domains over parked.com each are creating 700-1500$ ..

[forumrating]

ahh yes, its always better to make small websites with good content and put adsense rather then parking pages, i have 40 domains and im earning $3 a month , im sure with adsense it would have been $ 30-60 / m coz i can even market them, parking pages are not allowed to advertise in google, so all disadvantages with them

probably parking pages are only for those who have 1000 + domains and these ppl have sources to get high revenue as they have premium domains, end webmasters get just the bits of it, and domains are much more worth then the value it gets.

[stringerbell]

Cost is:
RSS Feed style $1 per month, per domain
Article Style $2 per month, per domain
Your content $3 per month, per domain


Just thought I'd let everyone know - I've been exchanging PM's with UmbrellaTechnologies (see previous posts this thread).

The quote I got for giving them more than 100 domains - WAS 50% HIGHER THAN THE PRICE QUOTED HERE IN THEIR AD! They also mentioned bandwidth charges too! So, the prices they quoted earlier in this thread are not their actual prices!

Just thought I should warn you (and rescind my previous recommendation). I do not support business practices such as this.

[stringerbell]

Here's a quote from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait_and_switch):

A bait and switch is a form of fraud in which the fraudster lures in customers by advertising a good at an unprofitably low price, then reveals to potential customers that the advertised good is not available but that a substitute good is.

Hmmm.... Sound familiar?

[UmbrellaTechnologies]

My god Mr. stringerbell. The forum posting was some design info on a system we are working on, it is not an advertisment, it is not a quote. It is not information set in stone since we have incorporated dozens of great ideas since I wrote the post, Is that fraud since the fantastic new features are not in the post either?

And again what do you mean by "giving them more than 100 domains"? Give them?

Our system is a work in progress and yes for high bandwidth sites we will lose money if we do not adjust for their amount of traffic which for them translates into huge adwords revenue. 99% of the sites parked with us will never incurr any bandwidth fees, but those that do, we dont plan to lose money over.

Your fraud insight and paranoia, combined with multiple hurrassing emails has made my evening a nightmare. If you don't want to use our service, don't. Because it does sound as if you are trying to undermind our success, and for what reason? Just for reference I own the largest Prayer system on the net and you will find very few people as honest as me. Please stop the hurrassment.

[stringerbell]

I've never hurrassed [sic] anyone in my life. In fact, my first 2 PMs gave you the benefit of the doubt (I assumed you didn't know you were baiting-and-switching people) - and I gave you ample opportunity to correct the error or realize the mistake.

I'm not trying to undermine your success - I was ready to give you thousands of dollars a year worth of my business - until I found out your ads are grossly misleading and downright fraudulent (if you don't believe me, above is the definition of bait-and-switch and here's the definition of an advertisement, also from Wikipedia):

Advertising is the commercial promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas, usually performed by an identified sponsor, and performed through a variety of media.

But, since you don't seem to understand how what you are doing is unethical, here's the rundown (I'll try and keep it simple for you):

1. You publicly displayed an advertisement on this forum (I'd love to hear you explain how your earlier post was NOT an advertisement).
2. You had no intention of selling your 'service' for the price you advertised - you in fact want 50%+ more than the price you advertised. That is the textbook definition of false advertising and bait-and-switch. Why do you think most commercial ads have asterisks and special conditions in the fine-print - for fun?!?
3. Once you were informed that your advertising was false - and here's the kicker - you didn't change it to reflect the actual price (and you've logged in here at least 3 times since you were made aware of the problem)!!! That tells me that (1) you know your advertising is false and (2) you don't care. Brilliant way of starting a new company!

PS. If you want to lie some more and say that I harrassed you - I'll post all our PMs here for everyone to see...

[UmbrellaTechnologies]

You can not change your post after an hour of submitting it so your accusation that I don't change it and that I am trying to fraud people is a unwarrented rant. I informed you 20 hours ago that posts cannot be edited after the first hour you post them, then you posted the item above which centers around how I dont change my post?

I can see that you now have some interest or motive in smearing my name or company for a post I did. Not all postings on this forum are advertising, they are opinion and information and since you have no idea about editing a post and by what you said "my first 2 PMs" and many more, plus the statement above, shows you are continuing to hurrassing me for not changing a post I cannot change.

Your whole rant is based upon info I posted that you expected me to change because it did not fit within your budget and since you intend to hurrass me about editing my post, which cannot be done. My point has been made that you must work for another domain parking service and intend to keep this thread going since we are building the best parking system on the net and we look and function better than any other parking system. Does that scare you?

[Halobitt]

Another place is to park with www.1plus.net

It's the work of Badger over at Namepros.
Change the nameservers to 1plus's and
bingo, bango, bongo - you have an instant site.

Good until you decide what to do with domain.
Bought www.Yonderton.com yesterday and parked it there.

Badger's adsense code appears once every 10 times.

[stringerbell]

I won't go into how exactly what you posted was (and is) an advertisement (that's obvious enough for everybody). You even posted it under your company's name - so you can't argue that it was just personal opinion (and you shouldn't be held to it). It was an official company communication!

And, when legitimate companies find out that they've been falsely advertising - they correct the issue (which I gave you plenty of time to do before posting here)!

If you were unable to edit your post - why didn't you just add a reply to this thread saying that the prices in your advertisement were incorrect, and then stating the correct prices??? Why? Because you know you'll get more customers by advertising a lower price - then switching them to a considerably higher price (bait and switch works - that's why it's illegal)...

If you had just acted ethically on any of several different occasions, no one here would ever have heard about this....

And, sorry to everyone else here who's forced to listen to this - we just cannot allow business practices like this to stand without complaint! The internet's bad enough already...

[UmbrellaTechnologies]

"which I gave you plenty of time to do before posting here" Are you the domain/police/internet/online king, please enlighten me!!

I am glad you posted some of you parinoid delusions for all the mebers to see so they can understand how unreasonable you really are. You were wrong in your actions the first time you hurrassed me and you are even more wrong every time you post another scaled-back attack on my posting. (Folks; notice how the posts go from "bait and switch" to "editing" to "it's an advertisement, whats next? Me as a person? My company?")

"NOT AN ADVERTISMENT" An advertisement would say "we are open and here are the prices" (I only offered info on what we are designing) - Since we are not open and any companies prices are subject to change based upon costs, production costs and marketing costs your continued rant is hurrassment and since it is in writing be very careful how you continue this.

[stringerbell]

Actually, let's end this once and for all... The only thing we seem to be disagreeing on is whether or not what you posted was an advertisemtent. You've admitted your prices are not what you posted (that they are considerably higher). So, let's go back, an advertisement is defined as: ...the commercial promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas, usually performed by an identified sponsor, and performed through a variety of media.

1. Commercial promotion of goods & services - you were obviously promoting a new service, and you were obviously trying to drum up business.
2. Performed by an identified sponsor - you used your company's name as your handle, can't get more identified than that.
3. Performed through a variety of media - a public internet forum is pretty clearly MEDIA.

So, we've proved what you posted was an ad.

Your 'ad' didn't contain anything like "projected pricing", "prices subject to change", "approx. pricing", or anything like that. It in fact gave a specific dollar value.

As you also have admitted here, you have hidden charges that weren't mentioned in your advertisement.

The definition of bait and switch is: '...a form of fraud in which the fraudster lures in customers by advertising a good at an unprofitably low price, then reveals to potential customers that the advertised good is not available but that a substitute good is.'

So, we've proven that you advertised. You've proven yourself above that you advertised an 'unprofitably low price' and have no intention of selling your product for the advertised price - but, you have a better service ('substitute good') available at a higher price.

Argue all you want, but those are the facts. And, they don't make me look bad...

Oh, and I see that you still haven't updated this thread with your ACTUAL pricing... Hmmm....

[UmbrellaTechnologies]

These quotes were posted on the post above then removed...

"If you understood English" - An attack on my person
"STILL HAVEN'T CORRECTED YOUR FALSE ADVERTISING!" - I dont need to explain or correct my post since you have continued to announce the change for me, for days.
"I'm not going to let you commit fraud on every person that reads this thread either" - What a savior you are for this forum, little do they know you have alterior motives.
"When you go out of business in a few months" - An attack on my company

I also see you intend to always get in the last word...

I also predicted since you were out of amunition you would attack me and my company like you did.

[stringerbell]

I've posted all I'm going to say above. You can't argue the facts (they're pretty clear) - so what use is there in arguing with you?

You are now free to get in the last word. Farewell...