After ten years of writing, planning redesigning and concepting I am finally ready to retire from my well established website http://BitBurners.com. It has a PR4, and is today getting a bit short from 8000 pageview per day. For me it has always been about the passion for the technology and topics of interest, and never really about becoming a professional webmaster so I am not well educated in this side of the business. After googling around, browsing this forum and so on, I have found two potential alternatives - to sell it or to park it. Now, what kind of a revenue streams you experts would guess that this kind of website could receive when parked for advertising? I have honestly no idea how that form of advertising converts. P.S. If someone is interested in buying this, bundled with 7 good relevant domains, send me a PM.
sounds like something would like to hold on too.... domain hosting renewal fees are cheap enough that you can hold onto it... im sure others on here are going to say no let it go but maybe they want the domain lol sounds like it has sentimental value so hold that! as far as how much you would make with ad's parked i have no idea :\ as long as it covers the domain name renewal fee and parking service fees go for it
Yeah, the sentimental part is the the difficulty of letting it go...it started as an MP3 site, when we all were a happy family of Robin Hoods (under a differnt name, now extinct). The came the golden age of optical recording (CD-R, DVD-R), when we did some world exclusive stuff with Nero.com and networked with the industry. It financed a large part of my uni. degree, but never really made it to big bucks, and then a corporate career started eating my mental resources, and I have not been able find a contributor for content (it was so easy 10yrs ago!). Anyway, http://www.dnscoop.com/ seems to rate it a bit below 14k$ - for whatever that estimate is worth. And the additional domains are not bad either (mpegit.net, cd-rw.org). Anyone with more insight on the possibility of parking? The PR most likely will melt away in seconds if I go that way?
I think there's no chance you'll make more money from parking this domain that you already make from adsense... in fact you'll probably make a lot less, not to mention you'll waste away all your 8 years of content. If I were you, I would either: 1)Sell the website for a substantial amount, preferably to someone who intends to keep it running. You might profit a couple thousand dollars from the deal, but won't you feel bad for letting go of your website? 2)Simply use a portion of the current adsense revenue (with 8k daily visitors you should be getting at least $100-200 monthly) to pay someone to keep your website running with regular updates. This way, your website keeps going and you keep in charge, and maybe earn some spare change out of it. If you think about choosing option 2), you might want to reconsider your ad placement (such as doing less ads on the main page and more ads on individual posts) as well as looking for other sources of revenue.
You're better off selling it. Parking domains sucks for so many reasons unless you have a domain that could sell for 5 figures. At least you have bragging rites when it comes to selling an already existing site.
Do neither. Have someone else write the content and split the money with them. This way, you still have $$$ coming in while someone else grows it.