best way to park spare domains?

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?

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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)

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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