Curtis Carmichael

These days, domain name parking services are abound — a quick Google search indicates 5-10 popular services and many other web sites offering the service.  Upon further research (and my own experience), I determined not many people have luck parking their domain names with a service.  Others, and myself are lucky to get more than 25-50 cents per day.  And I have over 100 domain names.  Not to complain because the earnings definitely rival most US-based savings accounts but one can do better and the cost/benefit doesn’t weigh out with each domain name costing somewhere in the range of $7-10 USD.

Of all the services, you’ll have the most luck with one allowing you to optimize the content/ads displayed on your domains.  Traditionally, the most successful domains are B2B related so you’ll want to concentrate on these ones as they will pay out better — in most cases, again, with my own experience and reading feedback from others on domain parking.  Some of the best domain parking services are GoDaddy’s domain parking service, RevenueDirect.com, Google’s new domain parking service (through AdSense), Sedo.com and SEOparking.com.  The later is setup in an interesting format — it takes more time to setup the domains but the end result allows you to display blog entries of your choosing on your web site on a WordPress blog.  Clever format but as a rule of thumb, I always like to have original content on my web site.  WordPress blogs do have excellent SEO capabilities however, as long as you don’t abuse SEO principles, etc.

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If you need a domain name for your business, personal business venture or you want to invest in a domain name for a future entreprenurial venture or other purpose, there are a number of items you should consider.

First, you will want to make sure your domain name is memorable and high-impact. Try to stay away with including hyphens in your domain or numbers as this decreases the value of your domain and makes it increasingly difficult for your customers to recall. Also, although domain names can be up to 256 characters in length, long domain names have like consequences and reduces the likeliness of your customers to type in the domain into their web browser if they didn’t find you on the web and could otherwise click on a link.

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