Do you park or do you build

[coderdesigner]

Dear all,

I'm curious to know do you prefer to park your domain with sedo(an example)or build a site with your google ads?

[fsmedia]

I used to do a lot of domain buying, but I've moved away from it a lot and focused on developing sites to become part of my network. Developing sites end up being more profitable for me than just parking domains.

[stringerbell]

I have a lot of domain hack domain names (ie. buffalo.win.gs or occu.lt or heirloo.ms, etc...). You can't park domain hacks (they are typically an English language site with an off-shore domain - so they get no type-in traffic whatsoever - and since none of the parking services allow you to drive traffic to your domains, if you park a domain-hack, it'll never see the light of day).

So, I've just started creating my own parking pages (with Adsense). We'll see how this little experiment turns out...

[eXe]

Depends on the domain. If it's something that is searched for, and I have an interest in it's content I build it.

[coderdesigner]

If the domain is of a niche and marketable, I can understand but it seems that many people is going towards quantity more than quality.. I might be missing this slice of the market pie, I don't understand why would anyone want to buy hundreds and hundreds of domains to park. Is it really that worth it?

[dcristo]

Developing a name will always be more profitable.

[faisj]

I park for 90% due to the volume of domains we have developing is not
a real option very every domain.

Also when you park right, the income is pretty stable

[eXe]

Also when you park right, the income is pretty stable

If you promote it.

[ottodo]

Parking is used for short time
Building is for long one :)

[coderdesigner]

Also when you park right, the income is pretty stable

It takes time and effort to promote a parked domain. Is that amount of 'stable' income worth the effort and time that has poured in?

[dcristo]

It takes time and effort to promote a parked domain. Is that amount of 'stable' income worth the effort and time that has poured in?

Parked domains generally get typein traffic.

[eddy2099]

I purchase my domain name for use and not for the purpose of parking. Of course, sometimes it takes a little longer to work on all my site so some of them are idling away, either because I do not have time or they were abandoned projects.

Incidentally, with Sedo, do they bring in the traffic or you need to drive the traffic in ?

[ahkip]

mostly parked becaue i don't have enough time...

i prefer develope it, get some pagerank and index from SE can increase value of domain, also it earn more than parking...but it takes time to develope site

[crystalmeth]

i build, parking isn't my thing

[stringerbell]

A few of you mentioned promoting parked domains....

I read through the ToS for the major parking services and the one thing they're pretty sticky on is that you aren't allowed to promote your domains. They don't seem to want any traffic at all coming to your domain that wasn't type-in. So, no Adwords, no advertising, no forum posts (except in the appraisals section), etc...

Here's a quote from Sedo's FAQ about what will get you banned:

Everything which cannot be classified as “natural” traffic (Natural traffic = search engine results and type-ins)

Advertising=not 'natural'
Promotion=not 'natural'
link-building=not 'natural'

[jeremyalyea]

I've offered several domains on sedo but have never successfully sold any. I usually hire someone to write some unique content and then add in some affiliate or adsense advertising until I get time to develop them. At least this way you get more url's indexed and maybe some pagerank that you can pass on to other sites that you are activily developing. What are the domains that you are referring to?

[faisj]

If you promote it.

Never Promote it!!!
That is not allowed!
( you could even loose your account! )