Does anyone else get annoyed when they type in a domain and it's a parking page? Maybe the domain was developed at one time and you clicked through one of its old links or maybe you just typed in something random to see what was there and you get this generic looking parking page that you've seen 100 times before. Back in the late 90s you could type in random urls just to see what was there (it was kind of like StumbleUpon). There was always something, usually something unique. My best find was Goats.com. I was bored in class and for some reason I decided to type that in. Last night I typed in Asteroid.com thinking there had to be something interesting there, but nope nothing interesting there at all.
Yep, many domains expire and get bought by one of big domain company; they want thousands of dollars for it even if only thing you can place on it is non-english hobby website.
Web Real Estate is a pain in the butt. It's hard to find a great domain because these big companies swallow as many as possible up, knowing people will need/want them at some point and sell them for a huge profit.
This reminds me of a strip on Kevin and Kell (an online webcomic) about how this one kid bought up every variation he could think of of the name of a mega-corp as a URL, and then demanded billions of dollars to sell them any one they wanted. They corporation actually changed it's name in order to spite him, and they wound up being worthless. It's to bad that people can't stick it to parking page companies like that.
it depends on wat sort of parking page it is, i hate the ones with pop ups, if its decent page i would not mind it, you can't expect all the domains to be developed, only can think that parking companies keep their page clean and related topics be there in advertisments so that the user finds what he really is looking for.
I don't like parking pages when someone clearly isn't doing something with the domain - I've seen several domains that I have good ideas for sites that I would put on them but instead someone is just parking them and not really producing anything worthwhile.
well, it's ok if the person is working on putting a site up on the domain. its better seeing a parking page than going into a page with a 404, as there are everincreasing abandoned domains floating around on the net.
Parking domains gives you a good statistics for type-in traffic. I have most of my domains parked. Domains which receive nice traffic I develop.
true its like feild work before developing the domain name, thats a good point. who wont like to earn bucks daily with no work to do, a website has to be developed and maintained, with parking you jus need to count ur bucks which is net income to you and pay $10 for domain renewal that is it also this topic should be shifted to domain name section
Yes, but they're not providing anything to anyone else. Also, I've found that very few people seem to click on the ads on parking pages nowadays, so I'd be a bit dubious about them making money unless you had a really popular domain or a common typo, the latter of which might land you in legal hot water anyway.
My domains have a CTR of 33% in some instances, but that's a meaningless statistic without listing the number of impressions as well.