What is the Best Domain Parking Company?

[danjacrom]

Hi guys,

I have heard alot about companies which you can park your domains with and I am wondering in your experience which one is best?

I am trying to decide based on the income generated, and also the amount of manual customability of the site (probably go hand in hand)

I have a few names here I am considering

Trafficz
Domain Sponsors
Sedo
Skenzo

Thanks
Daniel

[Cutter]

Your best option is testing them out, there are too many variables. Don't know about Skenzo though, I've never heard of them.

[FlyinBlind]

Hi Danjacrom!

Speaking from personal experience, you may have to experiment and try your domain(s) with different programs. Your results with each service may also depend on the niches your domains target or are relevant to. You may even find that you end up using a couple at once to maximize your returns.

I tried both Sedo and DS for about 3 months with very minimal results. I switched everything over to NameDrive and ended making more in the first 2 weeks with them than I did in the entire 3 months with the previous services combined. The visit/views also increased dramatically for certain domains.

Last comment, their support is very responsive and helpful.

If you decide to give NameDrive a try (or even Sedo or DS), please consider PM'ing me for a referral code. (Mods, my apologies in advance if this isn't an appropriate request.)

Good luck with whatever services(s) you go with.

[Phoenix]

I'll back flyinblind on the namedrive recommendation. Being testing it myself. I have tried 3 different domain parking services (goldkey, sedo, and name), and finally arrived that namedrive is the better option. You have more control over your domains with them, and the support is quite good.

[rythm]

Currently, I have most of my domains parked with domainsponsor, goldkey and fabulous. For me, Namedrive only worked well for the initial months, but not any more now.

[diddie]

It s good to try namedrive during 2 or 3 months, then i see too a drop, but its still better than my sedo experience. But sedo is good for selling domains, so you have to choose.

[digitalage]

sedo has quite a bit of traffic

[DomainWorks]

PPC Income (http://ppcincome.com/) and ParkQuick (http://parkquick.com/) offer reviews of the major parking providers. That may help you narrow the field ... keep in mind that these sites probably have affiliate relationships with major parking companies.

[59ideas]

Also note that some parking service will only accept you if you have a critical number of domains or good names. I got rejected by fabulous on 2 occassions. Guess I'm not worth their time.

For small timer, I find Sedo and Skenzo works.

[mika]

If you have a lot of parked domains you might want to try this:
http://www.google.com/domainpark/

[DomainWorks]

Sure, but if Daniel already had the required 750,000 page views per month for AdSense Domains, I doubt he'd need much advice from us. :)

[lpstong]

sedo has quite a bit of traffic

I agree. Sedo would probably be the best because of the traffic results. But it varies from person to person of what they really want. But a I would go with Sedo.

[edzachary]

I switched to Sedo and at least I'm seeing some of these names get some traffic now...didn't see that with others.

[Jenni]

I have only used Sedo and I think NameDrive. I tested a name on NameDrive for about a month and have very few views and no clicks and then for several months before that I had it on Sedo and it was getting a fair amount of traffic and clicks. After moving it back to Sedo it is now only getting very low traffic.

[DomainWorks]

I haven't used Domain Sponsor, but I hear they're now combining pay-per-action (you get paid when an item sells) with pay per click. If you have a domain where the folks who click through actually buy something (which often depends on the niche), that may be a better way to go. Maybe someone else who uses DS can comment on how this change is working.

Does anyone else see a lot of inconsistency with their parking results? A couple of services have paid OK in the early days and weeks, and then less well over time.

[Smooth]

Its good to go for Domainsponsor if you have good type-in domains, & just wanna keep them for revenue..

If you wanna keep a domain just for selling - afternic..

If you wanna both (PPC + sell domain) - sedo..

[Fabulous.com]

Hi All,

I've seen Fabulous.com mentioned a couple of times in this thread. It's true, we are selective about the kind of domains that we accept, however will will review quality portfolios of any size.

We are intersted in English language non trademark type in .com, .net, .org, .co.uk, .ca, .us domains, that receive natural traffic (or the domain phrase has a search count).

Please feel free to email me with the domains that you want to park and I'll review them for eligibility for our premium program.

Regards

Andrew Wright
a.wright@fabulous.com

[permood]

I have 100+ domains, I tried namedrive and sedo. I like namedrive page layout but namedrive doesn't pay much, I would say namedrive is worse. I move to sedo, it's much better.

[latentdragon]

sedo.com, IMO.

[swiftmed]

I have a Sedo parked domain, and I like the ads that are shown. I'd say go with Sedo.

[AlienGG]

For higher revenue and nicer landing page, try Parked.com. I just got the second payment for Feb today, awesome!

[new_adsense_24]

how many sites do you have parked with parked.com? what kind of domains do you have? did you just buy the domains for parking? or did you used to have a site on them?

[Mitaka]

NameDrive is good...

[htmlindex]

The best parking company for me so far has been ParkingPanel

[Fka200]

ParkingPanel here also. If anyone needs a link to sign up with them, check my sig. If anyone wants Parked.com or Namedrive, check my blog out @ http://www.fka200.com and check the sidebar :). (Website Highlights + Information).

[aniani]

http://www.skenzo.com would only work with you if you are a large portfolio owner...

you may try http://www.bigjumbo.com , namedrive.com is also good from what i have heard

Ani

[samsam81073]

I just bought this domain name "ssbbw4u.com" and parked it at sedo. Do you think I can make any money parking this domain? I think it would be good for a adult site maybe.

[DutchWM]

If you don't want to wait 45 days after each month to get your cash, then I'd suggest using parked.com (payout twice per month)

Trafficz requires you to park at least 100 domains, they are the best if you ask me.

[htmlindex]

I just bought this domain name "ssbbw4u.com" and parked it at sedo. Do you think I can make any money parking this domain? I think it would be good for a adult site maybe.

Honestly, that's a shocking domain for any website, it's worth $0. I'd be suprised if you get any traffic to the domain. I would get your money back if you can if you bought it within 5 days & are allowed to do it.

[akshayhack0123]

so finally which one to go with

[jaiganesh156]

evergreen sedo.com

[Fka200]

so finally which one to go with

If you're new, Namedrive. They have no portfolio restrictions and you can have an account up and running within minutes. As for the a majority of the others, there is a pre-screening in regards to what type of domains you own and sometimes traffic requirements.

http://www.fka200.com/domain-parking

[rajiwebstar]

I would suggest for http://domainsponsor.com

or either one must try Skenzo.com if u has large amount of domains with the millions of millions traffics or pageviews:eek:

[tenacious.e]

I've tried parked.com and got frustrated so I signed up for WhyPark.com. I had parked.com for over a month and 1 click and very little traffic. Once I signed up for WhyPark I started earning some good revenue. I hope to actually break even within the next month.

I definitely recommend this one. http://www.whypark.com/redir.cfm?c=e4092d

[murrc2]

I use parked i earn well over 2000$ there a month. If you click my sig you can see my personal reviews

[cashmanz]

whypark is the best I have used. You have to pay a one off fee to use it. Ive used sedo as well, still do for a few domains. Its a good way to sell a domain if thats what your aim is.

[ilook]

For higher revenue and nicer landing page, try Parked.com. I just got the second payment for Feb today, awesome!

Parked.com sucks hard.
Your cant sign up with less than 10 domains.
I email them about it, they reply me that "to be sure they need over 10 domains to analyse my domains" :confused::confused::confused::confused:

[zabijaq]

Dump Sedo. It's shit inparking, they just squeez money from domainers cause people need to park there to avoid 50$ minimal commision at marketplace.

See this and scroll down to see stats and compare some domainparking companies.

http://domain-parking-comparison.blogspot.com (http://domain-parking-comparison.blogspot.com)

Ilook, so what, 10 domains is 60$ at name.com. That doesn't mean they suck, see stats from different users at above blog.

[ilook]

Dump Sedo. It's shit inparking, they just squeez money from domainers cause people need to park there to avoid 50$ minimal commision at marketplace.

See this and scroll down to see stats and compare some domainparking companies.

http://domain-parking-comparison.blogspot.com (http://domain-parking-comparison.blogspot.com)

Ilook, so what, 10 domains is 60$ at name.com. That doesn't mean they suck, see stats from different users at above blog.

I only buy good and potential domains, and not crap.
So its hard to find real good names.
But i have 5 domains now :) so if i reach the 10 ill try Parked lol :D

[zabijaq]

buy some expired with some remaining traffic, with Parked they will make invested money back in few months and rest of year is profit.

With expired domains, don't forget to check archive.org to see what content they have and what remaining visitors are searching for to get relevant ads and high CTR.

[zabijaq]

The best parking company for me so far has been ParkingPanel

ParkingPanel? Never, read this:

http://www.namepros.com/.................how-much-does-parking-panel-owe.html (http://www.namepros.com/parking-and-traffic-monetization/508655-how-much-does-parking-panel-owe.html)

[zabijaq]

I have a Sedo parked domain, and I like the ads that are shown. I'd say go with Sedo.

Sedo? Are You kidding me? Prehistoric company with prehistoric sense of business? Ripo-off company that ban accounts of almost all who earn alot with parking? Company that drops domains that are not against offcial rules?

Sedo is prehistoric company just like Microsoft. They don't care for nothing just to wait for sallaries and think their position at market is infinite so their sallaries will go forever no matter what they do. This is sure path to hell.

Just read this threads:

Parked vs Namedrive vs Whypark vs Sedo to see that Sedo parking is rip-off.
http://www.namepros.com/510515-test-program-progress-sedo-vs-parked-3.html

See last posts at Sedo official thread where Sedo is removing all domain with president candidates names, worse then communist sense of business:

http://www.namepros.com/408817-sedo-com-official-thread-last-post.html

[zabijaq]

Just another warning for ParkedPanel members.

This are few messages between one member of PP and Support that don't care to reply. Why are they hiding? Any serious company will reply within 24 horus, good ones in about 30-60 minutes.

http://www.namepros.com/451918-parkingpanel-representative-besides-diane-2.html#post3008810

[NoxServices]

I think SEDO is good.

[zabijaq]

I think SEDO is good.

Any arguments why You think Sedo is good? For example compare Your earnings with others and then say something.

[Aidan_from_Namedrive]

Hi guys,

As any domainer will tell you it is good to test with all the parking companies. However, doing a random test on 1 or 2 names does not give a fair picture of that particular parking company. If any of you want to try NameDrive to compare us to any other company then please feel free to mail me and I will help with your account. It will obviously return better results if you have somebody actively involved in managing your portfolio.

Regards,

Aidan

Aidan@NameDrive.com

[zabijaq]

Hi Aidan, can I ask when there will be atleast 7 days WMreferral cookie? Then I'll prmote Namedrive lot more xD

Thanx for reply.

[SiberForum]

I only buy good and potential domains, and not crap.
So its hard to find real good names.
But i have 5 domains now :) so if i reach the 10 ill try Parked lol :D
What are they for you. I've seen people which consider potential domains kit od letters. :(
And why don't you want to park domains you have now. What for are you waiting?

[RB!]

hitfarm.com

[zabijaq]

Heard very good stuff about hitfarm, for example biggest Czech domainer use them alot.

But they have limit 1000$/month minimal earnings to get approved and it hell lot of parking revenue.

[jaiganesh156]

I have parked my domains with Sedo and Namedrive.
In NameDrive im getting 0.02$ per click flat which is not the case with Sedo where I'm getting good revenues :)

[jiggymehta]

Sedo Sedo Sedo

[zabijaq]

Sedo Sedo Sedo Sux Sux Sux Bigtime.

Sedo is good at nothing.

Parked is awesome for english speaking traffic (far better revenue then Sedo).
Namedrive is good for decent keywords and eastern europe, russia etc traffic. If I'm not mistaken, Namedrive is only company that accepts 100% russian traffic domains.

[muhabbatain]

I suggest you to make just few pages site and run google ads rather than paid parking.

[zabijaq]

Google ads might have very low CTR (1-3%) but Parked.com domains usually got about 5-20%. I have domains that got 50-60% CTR, You'll be banned with anything close to this value at adsense.
Adsense needs returning visitors (updated high quality content) to get higher CTR as some readers want to reward site admin :).

[simik]

I have my domains parked with almost every domain parking co. listed above. I also have my domains parked at PARKED.COM. I found them to be the best and so far outnumbering all of them. Best of all you get paid twice a month with PARKED. Major portion of my parking revenue comes from them.

To your Success
www.profitonlinesite.com:)

[sjsjsj215]

Mine all are at SEDO and perform pretty decent.
m happy to stay...
tho i applied to other companies like parked and trafficz but got declined inspite of a quite large number of domains in my portfolio...

[zabijaq]

SjSjSj You didn't get declined by number of Your domain as more means better. But probably You don't meet quality some parking companies want, as some only want huge type-in traffic.

Parked.com is easy to get approved but You need some quality domains, like doamins with expensive keywords like trade, invest, insurance, mortgage, loan, lawyer, poker ............
You might contact Donny at namepros forum, he's Parked.com support and he's real standup guy and he'll help You for sure.

BTW what You mean about quite large number of domains? :)
It's mostly >1000$ a month in revenue or >1000 domains. Do You meet this? :D

Probably not if You didn't get approved anywhere. Sedo doesn't have problem approving anything, they only check if You're owner cause they are marketplace.

Check my SIG to see screenshot stats of various parking companies to see HUGE difference and then You'll going to vomit from how much money You lose every month being at ripoff Sedo parking.

[hendro]

i need parked.com account, if u need please pm me.Tanx

[UAA]

I use sedo, and I am happy with it.

[Aidan_from_Namedrive]

Hi guys,

I see this arguement continues to rage on. I can understand everyone's point of view as different portfolios will see different results on various platforms. I still maintain that to maximize your revenue you have to test your domains with all of the major parking companies.

However, with Christmas around the corner and belts being tightened across the board NameDrive have gone into bonus mode.

Anybody who increases their NameDrive revenue in November compared to October will get a massive 20% bonus on the earnings increase. Any new clients who join NameDrive in November will get a 20% bonus on their account’s earnings.

To find out more visit the NameDrive homepage.

Happy parking!

Aidan

[zabijaq]

I use sedo, and I am happy with it.

How many parking companies did You try? As Sedo is far worst of all I've tried.
Hit my signature to see what "earning with parked domains" mean. You'll get about 3-4x higher PPC and higher clickthrough with Parked, Namedrive, Fabulous, whoever else. SEDO sux.

[thinkfast]

i think sedo is still number one in this business

[zabijaq]

You're right. Sedo is No. 1 as marketplace.
But it's No. 5894 as parking company.
1. Sedo has lowest PPC, it is ridiculous. I've read some complains about Sedo having 0,01-0,02EUR clicks on mesothelioma domains and mesothelioma is one of highest paying keywords.
2. Sedo got probably worst landing page, that even dumbest visitor is 100% sure it's site without any content. It just looks like few ads, nothing more. So ctr is ultrahigh.
3. Sedo has 1-click system so the PPC is low but there should be high CTR. But their landing page prevents from meaking high CTR.
4. Parked has clickthrough system with 0,2-1$ clicks but has awesome landing page and makes much higher CTR and PPC.
5. Sedo usus Google feed and Google is constantly lowering PPC
6. Sedo often bans people that has traffic from backlinks.
7. Sedo pays only 1 click / unique IP
8. Sedo never inform You about BAN, then they don't reply Your e-mails. All domainer forums has threads about fishy Sedo Bans.

9. Parked pay more clicks per IP. See screenshot below:
http://www.webmasterinter.net/parked.jpg
10. Parked allows building backlinks
11. Parked allows You to set Title + metatags + get backlinks so You get some small SE traffic.
12. Type-in traffic at well keyword optimized domains makes 20-50% CTR.
13. Parked payout is 2x a month.

read more at my BLOG (see sig).

[astro88]

just curious.. i find an ads about lazydomainer.. about optimizing a domain
did someone has bought the ebook ? is it really help ?
plz share some thought about it..
thanks

[rajiwebstar]

i think sedo is still number one in this business

thinkfast: Yes Sedo is one of the top companies who is providing quality services to their customers. The best part is they have domain auctioning, which is best in the world. They have lots of premium domains which you can't see in any other websites.

[mike495]

Bodis.com was a good one, but am not sure how they are doing now. They had nice templates and good customization options.

[zabijaq]

just curious.. i find an ads about lazydomainer.. about optimizing a domain
did someone has bought the ebook ? is it really help ?
plz share some thought about it..
thanks

Dunno but it doesn't look good as You only optimize parking of domain (when You don't want or don't have time to develop). And all is about domain name, You need good domain names to monetize traffic (and optimize landing page & keywords). i don't see any other optimization. And to any kind of ebook. Who would sell his billion dollar secret for few $. Those really good domain traders will never need such small $ from other domain traders and they won't reveal their secrets. So I think these ebooks contains such "secrets" like You can search with google or in domainer forums in minutes.

thinkfast: Yes Sedo is one of the top companies who is providing quality services to their customers. The best part is they have domain auctioning, which is best in the world. They have lots of premium domains which you can't see in any other websites.

Yes Sedo is one of top companies.
But they are very fishy. For example they allow few people to put "mortgage" keywords to adult domains and we all know 14 yrs kids searching for p0rn can't have any mortgage. You would be banned but they keep blind eye on few people. This is why people have so low PPC when they park with Sedo.

Also they keep blind eye on some people (might be their associates) that bids on own domains to push price higher - this way seller got more money and Sedo got higher commision. This is fraud against buyers whom pays much more. Also You can see non-premium domain - total just listed in premium auctions. And guess what, they are listed by same people that can use irrelevant high paying keywords and those who can bid on own domains through different accounts.

Sedo BAN people for having expired domain traffic and higher earnings (even if relevant keywords are picked). Any solid company would smartprice earnings but Sedo will BAN you.

Sedo is falling down. Their support is very dumb. When I was asking, if there's tracking cookie for referral program, I've needed to send 5-6 messages to support until someone recognized that tracking cookie isn't anything You aunt can bake and You can eat.
Sedo is company that don't give a f**k about their customers. I can sell anywhere else.

[markn26]

I just gave Parked.com another chance yesterday. Wow, a lot has changed since I was last there. You can really customize your pages quite a bit, right down to the meta & even the look and feel (plus you can upload pictures to replace the stock images). I'm really impressed so far.

[alexgau]

I have just started parking with sedo will see

[zabijaq]

Alex: Wanna say, trying Sedo is waste of time and money. There's tons of threads about weak Sedo earnings at any domainer forum round InterWeb :)

[j1tresser]

Yesterday I was informed that one of my accounts was terminated because of accessing (clicking) my parked domains. I informed them that I accessed the domains to verify that the keywords were appropriately assigned (As I always do on any of our parked domains) and that they could see that I changed the keywords right after clicking the site. No dice, account terminated all funds lost. This happened to be a test account to see if any extra revenue was gained over sedo on some lower traffic domains I own so not a huge deal, but it definitely changed our minds on using parked.com in the future. I could see if this was a deliberate attempt to gain revenue, but it wasn't and they know it. (It wouldn't gain revenue anyway since there were no 'partner ad clicks').

Over the last 7-8 months their actual payouts have been horrible (as have others), but it was surprising to see a parking site with a good reputation go down hill so quickly.

Recommendations? Sedo is the only 'free' parking service that hasn't thrown any unnecessary b.s. our way. Go with them until something better comes along.

[monopol]

Yesterday I was informed that one of my accounts was terminated because of accessing (clicking) my parked domains. I informed them that I accessed the domains to verify that the keywords were appropriately assigned (As I always do on any of our parked domains) and that they could see that I changed the keywords right after clicking the site. No dice, account terminated all funds lost. This happened to be a test account to see if any extra revenue was gained over sedo on some lower traffic domains I own so not a huge deal, but it definitely changed our minds on using parked.com in the future. I could see if this was a deliberate attempt to gain revenue, but it wasn't and they know it. (It wouldn't gain revenue anyway since there were no 'partner ad clicks').

Over the last 7-8 months their actual payouts have been horrible (as have others), but it was surprising to see a parking site with a good reputation go down hill so quickly.

Recommendations? Sedo is the only 'free' parking service that hasn't thrown any unnecessary b.s. our way. Go with them until something better comes along.


You are not only the one.Many people were scammed.Parked.com is a scam website.They are qualified fraudsters , hoping that Police will caught them.

[DealPartner]

I don't think Parked.com is a scam. Over the years I have used several parking companies but Parked.com and Fabulous.com are the best in the industry. IMO Fabulous.com has better templates and higher EPC. My favorite so far is Fabulous.

[Nikita Smith]

Whatever you do, just stay away from Sedo. You will be doing yourself a favor.

You can search Google and you'll find many many stories, trust me, at first I didn't believe those stories could be true, but then I've gone through it myself.

Their online system is not very good, seems to have never reached Beta. Their customer support is run by thugs, their terms of service were written by Hitler in 1940.

I hope noone else ever feels how I felt with Sedo, you are powerless with them. The best I can do is warn others so they don't ever use their service.

[webcabbie]

I have had great luck with Sedo..