Cash Parking
 

I guess the concept is to take the domain names that you own, but are not using, and "park" them with a page full of advertiser links. Then you generate revenue from the "pay per click" advertising on each page.

Example: https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/park/landing.asp?ci=6484

Is anyone using this? Does anyone know if there is worthwhile money to be made?

A business associate of mine owns over 800 domain names. He's agreed to split any profits with me if I can sell/lease/ or otherwise make some money with them. So far, this seems like the best way to generate some residual income. All I'd have to do is set up an account and then add all of his domains (and probably set them all to point to a new DNS server or something) it would cost me nothing and the potential monthly residual income is pretty sweet.

Anyway, if anyone knows more about this please let me know.

- Todd
http://www.arizonasfamilyrealtor.com

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Hi Todd,

It's all about having the right Focused Keyword domain names in particular industries & Valuable Domain Niche real estate. :)

Along with having an interest of Cashing in on Selling some of that real estate. ;)

Here's some Good resources for a little reading all about Domain name stuff...

http://www.sedo.com/services/tour_pr...&language= us
http://www.parkquick.com/
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/D...mes/Resources/

Phil

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As Phil said - it depends on the domain name.

Domains that work very well with such a setup is:

* mis-spelled domain names (for eg: googel.com)
* keyword.com (because, sometimes people use the navigation bar to search for a keyword and are then forwarded to the keyword.com)

I myself have not had experience in making money with domain parking. But a few weeks back, Bill Myers made some cool videos about the topic. And I know a few people who do make money with domain names.

What they usually do is use www.sedo.com to park their domains and earn some money through ads. But the bulk of their money comes when they sell a domain from their portfolio fo 3-4-5 figures.

So they use sedo.com just to cover their domain and renewal costs and then make the bulk of their income when they end up selling their domains.

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Thanks for the responses. I found sedo.com yesterday, looks like a better deal than paying for godaddy to park it. With 800+ domains, there has to be a little money to be made with my friends names. I'll update if anything comes of this.

- Todd
http://www.arizonasfamilyrealtor.com

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Yes, Please do keep us appraised on how this is going.

Thanks!

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I put up 5 of my domains that I haven't developed on Sedo.com a few days back. (Actually, one of them I'd developed but scrapped it a time back.) It took me less than 10 minutes to sign up fo sedo and change the name servers for my domain names.

Result till now: am averaging around €0.44 a day. That is around $0.60.

Out of the 5 domains - 2 domains have made me zero money. The 3 other domains are about the same.

If everything remains the same for the entire year, I will make about $200-220 of these 5 domains. My cost is $46 per year for all the 5 domains. So thats a very good profit for doing nothing.

If I end up selling one of the domains, that is even higher profit.

I'm not sure if I'll keep on getting the same results that I've received till now. But it looks promising till now.

Update
 

Finally have most of the domains listed with sedo (475 of them right now). Most of them are not very good names unfortunately, but some might do OK. I'm still trying to get all the domain name servers to point to sedo so that it will work, then have to finish adding keywords to each domain and catagorize them.

Some of the pretty good domains I've listed: http://www.creditrepairrealestate.com/
http://www.ninetyninecentstores.com/
http://www.arizonamortgagebankers.com/

Well, some of the best ones I don't have working yet, but anyway, looks like it might work out alright! I'll let ya know if we start making some cash with them.

- Todd

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One more resource to checkout if you're into Domaining and making Money... ;)
http://www.activeaudience.com/

Phil

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Cool find Phil!

Looks like using activeaudience.com's services - one could earn more money per click on the parked domain.

The only problem is - sedo.com also sells your domains. And I think the most amount of money is made on the sale of the domain.

So - I'm still going to stick with sedo - but might experiment with a domain or 2 over at activeaudience.com website...

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Seems like activeaudience helps selling of the website too - by making it easy to list the domain at buydomains.com - not sure how the whole thing works though...

Will check it out when I have more time.

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The big question with Domains...

Haven't checked them out yet But thought it might be interesting. :)

If we had only invested in and bought some of those Domains on Sedo etc. that have Sold for some Huge Profits... ;)

Exactly why you Must take Action on stuff before it's too late...

Gotta keep a very close Eye on Trends and Go with those Premonitions...

Do you own garbage or Premium Domains?
http://www.premiumdomain.com/

Phil

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I know some people have been more successful pointing a domain to a blogger.com page and selling a focused product or clickbank product than waiting on adsense revenue ( or in addition to adsense revenue).

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Ah true - but that requires work.

Domain parking requires no work at all - except maybe 5 minutes in setting the name servers.

So its a good idea to chase if you have a lot of domains but not enough time to develop them all.

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Hi Ankesh,

Do you mind letting me know who your webhost and domain provider is. It seems like a good price.

Thanks

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Thanks for asking Sam.

For domain names, I use godaddy.com - $9.20 per domain per year.

If you use the domain parking idea to make money - you don't need a web host. You can park your domains with sedo.com or activeaudience.com for free. And they will show the pages with ads automatically.

Other than domain parking, I host most of my other domains with dreamhost.com - you just need one a/c with them to host multiple domains - and they cost about $10 a month. They are not the fastest in customer support - but their services are damn good and the best I've found.

Other good hosts I've heard good things about and are in the same price range are: servage.net and midphase.com

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Thanks Ankesh, I've bookmarked that webhost a multiple domain host at $10 a month great value! One thing, do you have to register the domains through them in order to be able to host your sites there? Because I have found $4.95 domains so I may well give this ago bearing in mind I don't have to have a webhost if I'm going to use seedo.

Then my break-even is 0.0135c a day or 0.4125c per month. You said you were making 60c a day for 3 accounts 0c for 2 for an average of 0.36c a day per account (did I get this correct?). So you are 26 times over break even (using $4.95) or 13 with godaddy.com.

This seems to good to be true are my figures accurate?

Also do you have any tips on what domain names to pick. I might go the bmeyers route and use misspelled domain names, I'll have to go through his videos on this, you've set a spark alight.

Thank you.

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I have re-read your post and I think you mean you made 60c a day for all 5 domains? 3 make a profit and 2 have not yet so an average would be 0.12c a day per site.

Using $4.95:
0.0135c a day or 0.4125c per month

0.12/0.0135 ~ 9 times break even or 4-5 with godaddy

Still good %'s though!

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That is correct.

I'm not looking to register 500-1000 domain names and turn this into a full fledged revenue stream - at least not yet. May do so after some time...

But here are some ideas for domain names:

1. mis-spelled domains

2. future trend domains (many new words are coined every day - keep an eye out for ones you think are getting famous)

3. minor celebrity names (one of my domain names is the name of an upcoming celebrity - not famous now - but I think has potential - I get 2-3 clicks on that everyday. If the person gets more famous - I'm betting I'll get way way more traffic)

4. phrases with city or region in it - for eg: and this is just an example - nydentist.com or something

5. popular phrases people search for (try spyfu.com to find them)

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No - you don't have to register the domains through them to host with them.

Just to clarify: You don't need a web host if you are just looking into domain parking - sedo.com takes care of that and is free.

Also - you can search for "dreamhost coupon" on google and find a coupon code that will give you $97 off for the first year. That way, it'll just cost you $23 or so for first year of hosting. After that, it'll be back to $10 a month.

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It would be great if you could share your $4.95 domain registrar with us.

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Sure thing its www.netfirms.com just signed up my first domain. I got the link from about.com so I presume their reasonably adequate. They also give you 25mb free web hosting, which is enough if you want to create a very basic landing website. To find my domain name I used a misspelling of betfair.com (a UK betting exchange that generates good traffic). I found my variation through a misspelled domain generator this gave me my domain (betfakr.com) that obviously exchanges the i to a mistyped k, quite a nice tool. Although I did have to search through about 20 misspellings to find an available misspelling (just shows you people must be doing this). I created a sedo account. I then used my netfirm control panel to forward this domain to my new sedo.com parking account. I have also changed the keyword to optimize my advertisements, although this can take up to 48 hrs. I don't really care if I lose money it's a very interesting concept. For $5 I couldn't resist.

Keep you posted.. oh yeah thanks for the coupon tip!

PS: Might have to register, haven't been around sowpub since the forum changed to this version. Looks nice

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Sorry Ankesh I left out some vital info.

The $4.95 price is for the 1ST year ONLY.. It than reverts back to $9.95
There is also a 5 domain name limit.

But like I said it's only a trial so I'm happy paying half-price to test this idea out for a year. I'll probably register 5 and see how it pans out.

Although there was another $5 domain host I'll look it up again and get back to you...

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don t know if this is the same service area you are referencing...

but found it looking for misspelled domains...

http://hostmysite.com/promos/eom/

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I know this guy is selling something ,just cant figger out what ...is the 301 redirect an 'internet' term?
Yes. By registering a bunch of domain names and simply parking them on your main domain you have created a group of domains all having exactly the same website and web content. It's called duplicate content and in the eyes of all major search engines it is just plain "BAD" practice and your site WILL be penalized.

So does that mean you must create different websites for each of the domains? Well, you could if you really wanted but that would be a lot of hard work - wouldn't it?

The solution is a simple 301 direct. Using a 301 direct on each of your domain names you are able to redirect the
domain to you main website address and will not be penalized by the search engines. In fact they like the 'good-old' 301. It will actually IMPROVE your ranking.

So remember, registering multiple domains is an excellent strategy for driving extra traffic to your site BUT just be sure to use the 301 redirect command on each otherwise you will be penalizing yourself!

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ankesh...

thanks for the info

can you tell me how the spyfu.com works ?

I enter a term but do the results tell me the popularity or ??

thanks
I appreciate your input

Domain Name Profit Re: Cash Parking
 

PPC domain parking has been around for years and more people are coming on board. It's easy to start doing it, but not every domain will make money with parking - it depends on the quality and market of the keyword domains, the quantity and quality of the traffic, etc.

Some domains may not be keyword domains that bring much traffic or money, but they can be BRANDABLE (domains like Acemy.com or Arrot.com.) for a business to brand their new website.

Beginners would better start slow, learn the trade and not going out to buy hundreds of domains randomly for parking. It's one of the costly mistakes many people make. It's true that experienced domain people are making thousands of dollars a year with parking.

Hope you all profit with your domain names!

Best of success,
Alexander

http://www.ProfitVirus.com