How to make money from parking domains?

slyvisions

Oct 5th 2007, 5:46 pm

I have heard much about making money by parking and selling domains. How exactly do I do that? What is the difference between parking it and just buying it and actually selling the site? Which one is preferred? I need some tips, so I'd appreciate any type of help. Thanks.

drivengrl

Oct 5th 2007, 6:05 pm

Parking domains is easy. There are many parking companies out there and they are free. Sedo.com is very popular as well as parked.com. Parking domains are a great way to monetize them if your not developing it or if you they are waititng to be developed.

You can also park domains just to see what type of money can be generated from them. Everyone has their own preferences, however I would recommend at least parking a few to see what you make. You might be very suprised.

You can also simply buy and sell names. Many people will ask if a name generates any revenue to gauge if they want to buy a name or not, or to see how much they would be willing to pay for a name. So through parking it you will get some stats to go by.

Hope I've been some help.

Seleno

Oct 5th 2007, 6:11 pm

you should have traffic to the domain you want to park
then you will make good money!
godaddy is also good but you should pay 9$/month....
parked.com is very nice

webwiz

Oct 5th 2007, 7:45 pm

anyone having experience with godaddy parking? personally i do not like paying for parking, but who knows maybe godaddy is good too.

doka

Oct 5th 2007, 8:03 pm

parked.com wants domains with high traffic in theirs standards
you can list and park any domains with sedo.com - but if you have high quality domin names work with parked.com

and u can find some articles here:
http://domainsbusiness.blogspot.com/

slyvisions

Oct 5th 2007, 11:44 pm

Sounds good. Drivengrl, you say that it's free? Which one exactly is free? Sedo or Parked? Don't I have to pay for the domains to park them?

doka

Oct 6th 2007, 12:42 pm

parking domain names does not require any costs, but only your needs for parked.com is domains that meets their standards - and for sedo.com no any thing, you can park any domain names for free..

johnson36

Oct 6th 2007, 1:18 pm

I have some domains that I have bought through Netfirms, If I pack them with sedo does this mean that i am moving them away from my Netfirms account ? who do i pay the next years $4.99 fee to ?

slyvisions

Oct 9th 2007, 5:54 pm

So let me get this straight. I don't even have to OWN and BUY the domain that I am parking/selling?

jkane

Oct 9th 2007, 8:54 pm

So let me get this straight. I don't even have to OWN and BUY the domain that I am parking/selling?

You have to pay to register the domain. There are places you can park them for free like sedo.com, but don't expect to make much $$ unless you find one getting lots of traffic.

jkane

Oct 9th 2007, 8:56 pm

I have some domains that I have bought through Netfirms, If I pack them with sedo does this mean that i am moving them away from my Netfirms account ? who do i pay the next years $4.99 fee to ?

No, you are just pointing your dns settings to sedo. They are not the domain registrar.

GypsyRose

Oct 9th 2007, 10:07 pm

I have had a few parked on Godaddy and they never charged me to park.

Bosxs

Oct 10th 2007, 12:24 am

I park my domains to namedrive.com , they pay very well

mrgee

Oct 10th 2007, 10:46 am

Does the parking pay good money and click-through rate. PM me some example of your domains please. I'm thinking to start domains with traffic and park them for profit and I would like to know is it worth it.

markn26

Oct 10th 2007, 2:03 pm

how exactly can you find out what kind of traffic a parked domain is getting (for instance, on Godaddy, where you can barely put a damn thing on the free parked pages they give you?)

mrgee

Oct 10th 2007, 2:32 pm

I don't know about godaddy but with namecheap you can use the "custom parked page" function.

techpr

Oct 10th 2007, 2:42 pm

1- I had Godaddy CashParking for 6 months in 2006 and that was a little waste. CashParking you have to pay a monthly fee, then I tried Sedo for some time and finally have good results with Parked

2- You need to own domains with some traffic already to earn from them, if no traffic, you will have a domain parked doing nothing.

Xonium

Oct 10th 2007, 2:52 pm

http://bodis.com gives you 100% revenue share.
http://gridparking.com/ gives you 80% ad space share, you put your own adsense on it. Actually they give 100% for the moment.

doka

Oct 10th 2007, 6:28 pm

http://bodis.com gives you 100% revenue share.
http://gridparking.com/ gives you 80% ad space share, you put your own adsense on it. Actually they give 100% for the moment.
thanks very much to giving these websites

ValDD

Oct 11th 2007, 12:01 am

I also heard that it's possible to make money with this, but have never heard of any specific cases. In general I think you have to really be in the business and probably park hundreds if not thousands of domain names to make any money.

pratik

Oct 11th 2007, 12:09 am

Well i feel parked at SEDO is the best.
I have around 16 domains parked there.. and already made some money... ;)

smackthat

Oct 11th 2007, 1:07 am

Can I use adwords to drive traffic to parked domains? Is it worth the advertising?

techpr

Oct 11th 2007, 1:42 am

Can I use adwords to drive traffic to parked domains? Is it worth the advertising?

I think No, parked domains must have natural traffic.

craigedmonds

Oct 11th 2007, 1:43 am

Can I use adwords to drive traffic to parked domains? Is it worth the advertising?

That is a great idea but i think you will find its against their TOS.

doka

Oct 11th 2007, 1:44 am

Can I use adwords to drive traffic to parked domains? Is it worth the advertising?
no, any traffic buying or advertising for parked domain is not allowed

main traffic source for parked domain must be from search engines and type-in traffic.

julai1181

Oct 11th 2007, 4:03 am

thanks a lot for all the informations about domain name business.Hmmm I have some question though, if you're going to buy domain names, so you're going to post entries to them everyday just like any other blog?

Ammtek

Oct 11th 2007, 2:25 pm

First, you register a domain name the normal way (say $5 to $10) then you own the name only.

If you want to develop your own site you will pay for a hosting account (say $40 and up) then build content and traffic and earn money yourself.

If you dont want to build and host the site, then a parking company will provide 'content' i.e. Adverts for you. You just re-direct or point your domains address at the parking companys site.

For example I redirect http://www.youlist.co.uk/ to sedo.... check it out :)

To make money you will need traffic, real traffic not paid for by those 10000 hits for $10 merchants!

The money comes from users finding no real meaty content and click through to an interresting advert. So your real problem is how to get the traffic.

Good Luck.

slyvisions

Oct 12th 2007, 2:03 pm

First, you register a domain name the normal way (say $5 to $10) then you own the name only.

If you want to develop your own site you will pay for a hosting account (say $40 and up) then build content and traffic and earn money yourself.

If you dont want to build and host the site, then a parking company will provide 'content' i.e. Adverts for you. You just re-direct or point your domains address at the parking companys site.

For example I redirect http://www.youlist.co.uk/ to sedo.... check it out :)

To make money you will need traffic, real traffic not paid for by those 10000 hits for $10 merchants!

The money comes from users finding no real meaty content and click through to an interresting advert. So your real problem is how to get the traffic.

Good Luck.

That was the type of information I was looking for. Thanks! I think I'm going to get started right now. But like you said, it's risky since the traffic has to be organic. I'll have to find some sort of domain that people would type in their address bars.