An important part of domaining is using parked pages to get some revenue from domains before they are sold. Domain parking is a huge industry - the leading parking sites are probably Parked and Sedo, but there are many other players in the business that don’t accept newbies. We will review the parking companies in a future post.
However, we have tried a different tactic. We had a few of our sites on Domain Embarking - who basically create a microsite for you - and after we shifted them to Sedo, we realized that we were actually getting some traffic from some of our .info domains (DE doesn’t give the best stats, but we now know, after the fact, that yahoo had given us a bunch of backlinks, since domainembarking sites point to each other). We didn’t go back to Domain Embarking because we found it quite slow and we weren’t making too much money anyway, but we liked the concept of creating a microsite rather than just a page with ads. So, with this in mind, we looked for a script that would allow us to park our domains on our servers with some content - this way if a search engine bans a certain service’s DNS servers, we’re unaffected.
We settled on a script and we’ve tried it on a few of our sites. Check them out:
- Commodity Markets
- Energy and Gas
- Energy Prices
- Foreign Exchange Online
- Forex Services
- Natural Gas Information
We have a number of other domains we’re trying these on too, and since we have Google Analytics on them all, we’ll be able to tell you the affect that it had on our traffic. If you’re looking for sites like ours, try Steady Niche.
Are you trying other parking tactics? We’d love to hear from you about what you’re using.