A Lowly Three Letter Dot Com with Traffic

[rgremill]

Over the summer I bought a "cheap" three letter .com. I have it parked at Namedrive but it only makes a few pennies per month. It may get 300 or more unique visitors per month.

How would you monetize this thing? How would you monetize anything with "junk" traffic?

Thanks!

[kohashi]

Try another parking provider... DomainSponsor, Sedo, etc. Try and figure out what your users are looking for and target keywords accordingly.

[NameCodex]

get some hosting and put up a page which asks: "What were you looking for at XYZ.com?"
Then store all the responses and use them to decide how to monetize :D

[tushardhoot1]

Use name codex's theory.

Collect the responses, build a site around it, and post it up.

[pubsit1000]

Or just put a simple page and StatCounter to see where visitors are coming from exactly.

It's possible that a big part of the visitors are domainers looking for LLL names and they are used with parking pages and don't click.

[kingfish]

Put a big search box on your page, record what is searched for and redirect to google or something

[rgremill]

Thanks for the ideas!

[BuzzBoss]

Is it 3 letters or 3 characters?. If it is 3-letters then I sure wouldn't park it. It either develop it or sell it for a big profit. 3-characters includes number(s).

[rgremill]

It is 3 letters. I hope to add a search box within the next week and start collecting search requests. I'm betting that most of the visitors are 3 letter .com investors. Sigh.

[BuzzBoss]

May I ask how did you acquire this 3-letter domain name?. You can pm me if need.

[rgremill]

I bought it from someone at Dnforum.

[NameCodex]

I'm betting that most of the visitors are 3 letter .com investors. Sigh.

if so, put up an semi-anonymous offer form. e.g. enter your email and an offer in USD. then show the offer history, 4500,5000,5500 e.t.c